Rubio, Cruz dominate rowdy Republican presidential debate
BOULDER, Colo. (Reuters) – Republican presidential candidates Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz emerged as the strongest challengers on Wednesday to insurgent front-runners Donald Trump and Ben Carson, in a fiery debate that may have marked a new phase in the 2…
Florida to execute man convicted in quadruple murder
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (Reuters) – Florida plans to execute on Thursday a man who was convicted of fatally stabbing his young daughter, his ex-wife and two of her relatives in a jealous rampage 30 years ago.
Presidential debate trumps World Series on Twitter
(Reuters) – The Republican presidential debate took over Twitter on Wednesday night, with #GOPdebate trending far more than #WorldSeries, according to data by social media analytics provider Hashtags.org.
Runaway U.S. military blimp wreaks havoc in Pennsylvania
(This October 28 story has been corrected in 13th paragraph to fix 100 mph metric conversion to 160 kph from 60kph)
Massachusetts man arrested after making bomb threat on plane: police
BOSTON (Reuters) – A Massachusetts man is due in court on Thursday after being arrested a night earlier for boarding a United Airlines flight at Logan International Airport and saying that he had a bomb in his bag, state police said.
Pentagon says Guantanamo detainee transferred to Mauritania
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States has transferred Ahmed Ould Abdel Aziz, a detainee at the Guantanamo Bay prison, to Mauritania, the Pentagon said on Thursday.
Officer fired for throwing student in South Carolina classroom arrest
COLUMBIA, S.C. (Reuters) – The white sheriff’s deputy who is under federal investigation after he was caught on video flipping a black high school student out of her classroom chair in South Carolina was fired on Wednesday for violating department poli…
Three people shot at Indianapolis mall: police
INDIANAPOLIS (Reuters) – Three people were wounded by gunfire on Wednesday evening inside the Washington Square Mall on the east side of Indianapolis, an Indianapolis Metropolitan Police spokesman said.
Signatures to be filed for California drug price referendum
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (Reuters) – Backers of a referendum aimed at reducing the cost of prescription drugs in California said Wednesday that they had gathered more than enough signatures to place their measure on the November, 2016, ballot in the most pop…
Online sports gambling ring bust nets 17 suspects
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Seventeen people in three states have been charged with operating an illegal sports gambling ring that utilized offshore websites to book more than $32 million in bets each year, prosecutors said on Wednesday.
