Art, furniture and more from the Reagans’ home to be auctioned
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Furniture, artwork, jewelry and collectible objects that once graced the Los Angeles home of President Ronald Reagan and his wife, Nancy, are headed for the auction block, Christie’s said on Thursday.
‘Daddy went past a red light’: Massachusetts boy, 6, busts father
BOSTON (Reuters) – A police dispatcher outside Boston got an unexpected call last weekend when a 6-year-old boy dialed 911 to alert them that his father had run a red light on the way to the car wash, according to a recording posted online by the Quinc…
Rare U.S. biplane stamp stolen six decades ago to be returned
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A rare “Inverted Jenny” stamp stolen 61 years ago is set to be officially returned to the library that owns it by U.S. authorities on Thursday.
Dutch, U.S. authorities cooperate in lottery mail scam investigation
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – Dutch prosecutors said on Thursday they had raided 10 locations in an investigation into a global, multi-million euro mail scam with hundreds of thousands of victims.
Engineering professor killed in murder-suicide at UCLA: coroner
(Reuters) – A professor was identified by authorities on Thursday as one of the men fatally shot in a murder-suicide at the University of California, Los Angeles, that shut down the sprawling campus for two hours a day earlier.
Family will not sue Cincinnati zoo over child-gorilla incident
CINCINNATI (Reuters) – The family of a 3-year-old boy who fell into an animal enclosure, prompting the killing of an endangered gorilla, said on Wednesday that it would not sue the Cincinnati Zoo over the incident.
Obama says transgender bathroom directive based on law
ELKHART, Ind. (Reuters) – President Barack Obama said on Wednesday the decision to direct public schools to allow transgender students to use the bathrooms of their choice was based on the law and the best interests of the children.
Kansas lawmakers do not act on school funding as deadline looms
(Reuters) – Kansas lawmakers on Wednesday did not act on a state Supreme Court order to create a more equitable funding formula for education, leaving open the possibility that public schools across the state are shut down in June.
Plummeting U.S. teen birthrate hit record low in 2015: CDC
ATLANTA (Reuters) – The birthrate among U.S. teenagers dropped 8 percent last year to another record low, the latest sign of major progress in efforts to reduce teen pregnancies, a federal health agency reported on Thursday.
California Assembly passes gun control bills
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (Reuters) – The California Assembly on Wednesday passed a package of gun control bills, including a measure to ban so-called bullet buttons which allow quick changes in the magazine of a military-style weapon.
