Autumn storms make small dent in California drought
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (Reuters) – Fall storms that brought rain and snow to parts of California have made a small but measurable dent in the state’s four-year drought, experts said.
Six die in charter bus crash in Arkansas -police
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (Reuters) – Six people died early on Friday morning when a charter bus veered off an interstate highway in Arkansas and crashed into a concrete barrier and an overpass, according to state police.
Missouri police fatally shoot man who injured relatives with hammer
St. LOUIS (Reuters) – A Missouri man who had seriously wounded his sister and nephew with a hammer was shot to death by police after he repeatedly refused orders to drop his weapon, an official said on Friday.
New York woman who aided prison escape to pay $80,000 restitution
PLATTSBURGH, N.Y. (Reuters) – A former prison worker who helped two convicted killers escape from a maximum security lockup in upstate New York earlier this year will pay nearly $80,000 in restitution to repair damage caused by the inmates in preparing…
N.Y. jurors urged to convict accused mobster for ‘Goodfellas’ heist
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Federal prosecutors urged a New York jury on Friday to convict an octogenarian mobster for his role in an infamous 1978 airport heist that helped inspire the movie “Goodfellas.”
Texas jury begins deliberations of man charged with murdering four at SXSW
AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) – The man charged with murdering four people by plowing his car into a South by Southwest festival crowd last year heard the thuds of bodies hitting metal and kept on speeding down Austin streets, prosecutors said in closing sta…
U.S. Coast Guard searching for passenger fallen from cruise ship
MIAMI (Reuters) – U.S. Coast Guard search-and-rescue crews were searching on Friday for a 35-year-old Brazilian man who fell from a cruise ship at night in the Bahamas, officials said.
Boston men accused of hate crimes; police say they cited Trump
BOSTON (Reuters) – Two Boston brothers accused of urinating on and beating a homeless Mexican man have been charged with hate crimes after being quoted by police as saying, “Donald Trump was right, all these illegals need to be deported.”
U.S. Marshals capture Ohio murderer who escaped prison in 1978
CLEVELAND (Reuters) – A convicted murderer who escaped an Ohio prison more than 37 years ago while serving a life sentence has been captured in St. Paul, Minnesota, the U.S. Marshals Service said on Friday.
UAW workers at two more GM plants back contract: Detroit News
(Reuters) – Workers at General Motors Co’s two large assembly plants in Ohio and Michigan backed the company’s new four-year contract with the United Auto Workers, the Detroit News reported.
