State education chief opts against Chicago schools takeover
CHICAGO (Reuters) – Chicago’s cash-strapped public school district is not in sufficiently bad financial shape to warrant a state takeover, according to an Illinois State Board of Education staff report.
Michigan driver clinging to life after highway murder attempt
(Reuters) – A motorist was shot multiple times and critically wounded on Friday by someone in another vehicle as they drove along Interstate 94 in Detroit and Michigan police were working to identify a suspect who drove away.
Six perish in upstate New York house fire
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Six people, including four children, were died on Friday when fire swept through a wood-frame house in Syracuse, New York, fire officials and local media said.
Two charged in killing of New Jersey student
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Two New Jersey men were charged on Friday in the murder of a college student who was fatally shot this week at a Newark fraternity house, prosecutors said.
LED-lit pigeons illuminate New York skies in art exhibit
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Thousands of pigeons with tiny LED lights strapped to their legs swooped through the darkening skies in a jaw-dropping display of beauty, but savvy New Yorkers gazing up at the performance art knew enough to keep their mouths shut….
Harvard to ban members of single-sex clubs from leadership roles
BOSTON (Reuters) – Harvard University will prohibit members of single-sex clubs, fraternities and sororities, from serving in leadership roles beginning in the fall of 2017 in an effort to discourage sexual discrimination on campus, officials said on F…
New York man found in bay wearing cement shoes was asphyxiated
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A man whose face was wrapped in duct tape and feet encased in concrete when his body washed ashore in New York City this week was killed by asphyxia, the New York City Medical Examiner’s Office said on Friday.
Florida mom, shot by four-year-old, won’t face charges over gun
TAMPA, Fla. (Reuters) – A Florida mother agreed to store her gun more safely and take other steps to avoid criminal charges after her four-year-old son picked up the gun she kept in her car and accidentally shot her in the back, state prosecutors said …
U.S. anti-hunger group uses playful campaign to fool and educate
NEW YORK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Full-page advertisements are popping up in major U.S. newspapers offering to pick up Americans’ dinner leftovers and deliver them to the needy, a farcical campaign designed to raise awareness of hunger, its organ…
Mother charged for abusing toddlers who were found tied up in Texas backyard
AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) – The mother of two children, aged 2 and 3, who were found chained in the backyard of a neighbor’s home in San Antonio last week was charged with child abuse on Friday after investigators said they believed she severely beat her…
