Airport screening made 70,000 miss American Airlines flights this year
(Reuters) – More than 70,000 American Airlines customers have missed their flights this year and 40,000 checked bags failed to be loaded on scheduled flights because of airport screening delays, an executive for the airline told a U.S. congressional p…
Ohio appeals U.S. court decision in favor of early voting
CLEVELAND (Reuters) – The state of Ohio filed a federal court appeal on Thursday seeking to restore a Republican-backed limit on early voting and accelerated voter-registration measures that were seen by civil rights groups as boosting minority turnout…
Secret Service punishes 41 over leak of lawmaker’s data
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Forty-one U.S. Secret Service employees have been disciplined over a media leak of the personal files of a congressman who had criticized the agency’s security lapses, the Department of Homeland Security said on Thursday.
About two dozen spelunkers escape flooded Kentucky cave
LOUISVILLE, Ky (Reuters) – Nearly two dozen spelunkers safely made their way out of a Kentucky cave where they had been trapped on Thursday due to flooding, police said.
‘Freeway Killer’ accomplice dies after attack in California prison
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (Reuters) – A California inmate serving two life terms as an accomplice of so-called “Freeway Killer” William Bonin has died after an attack by another prisoner, corrections officials said Thursday.
Tornado warning prompts evacuation of Kansas City airport
(Reuters) – The Kansas City International Airport was evacuated briefly on Thursday over a tornado warning, airport officials said, a day after tornadoes destroyed or damaged nearly 30 homes in neighboring Kansas.
Mother of Texas ‘affluenza’ teen indicted for money laundering
FORT WORTH, Texas (Reuters) – The mother of a Texas teenager who used an “affluenza” defense after killing four people in a 2013 drunken-driving crash was formally charged with money laundering on Thursday, related to her helping him flee to Mexico las…
Pittsburgh man gets life term for killings of Iowa lawmaker’s sisters
(Reuters) – A Pittsburgh man was sentenced on Thursday to life in prison in the killing of two of his neighbors, the sisters of an Iowa state lawmaker, after the jury deadlocked over whether to give him the death penalty, prosecutors said.
Fire prompts New York City to check properties under rail tracks
NEW YORK (Reuters) – New York City will conduct regular safety checks of its properties under elevated rail tracks after a fire disrupted commuter rail service at Grand Central Terminal for days last week, Mayor Bill de Blasio said on Thursday.
Two U.S. Navy jets collide off North Carolina, crew safe: officials
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Two U.S. Navy warplanes collided off the North Carolina coast on Thursday and crashed in the Atlantic, where the four crew were rescued by a commercial fishing boat and flown by helicopter to a Virginia hospital, the Coast Guard …
