Pentagon to list alternative U.S. sites to Guantanamo prison
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Pentagon is expected to unveil a long-awaited plan this week outlining how it would close the detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, despite fierce resistance in Congress to President Barack Obama’s push to shutter the fac…
University of Missouri president resigns after race protest
COLUMBIA, Mo. (Reuters) – The University of Missouri’s president stepped down on Monday after protests by the school’s football team and other students over what they saw as his soft handling of reports of racial abuse on campus.
Poll finds most Californians dissatisfied with state’s economy
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Sixty percent of California voters are dissatisfied with the state’s economy, with those in inland areas hardest hit by the recession of recent years expressing greater pessimism than voters in coastal areas, according to a poll…
Train cars back on rails after Wisconsin derailment
(Reuters) – Canadian Pacific on Monday said 12 of the 13 freight train cars that derailed in Wisconsin on Sunday have been placed back on the rails and were being moved to an adjacent site for evaluation.
Jordanian officer shoots dead two Americans, one South African at security training site
AMMAN (Reuters) – A Jordanian officer shot dead two U.S. government security contractors, a South African trainer and two Jordanians at a U.S. funded police training facility near Amman on Monday before being killed in a shootout, Jordanian authorities…
Lawsuit by unpaid Illinois lottery winners pulls in other states
CHICAGO (Reuters) – Multi-state lottery groups pushed back on Monday against a move by lottery winners in Illinois to drag dozens of states into a lawsuit against the Illinois Lottery’s suspension of payments.
Fourteen arrested in Baltimore ‘war room’ drug operation
BALTIMORE (Reuters) – Fourteen people have been arrested on drug charges after an investigation by a local-federal “war room” set up to fight soaring homicides and other crimes, authorities said on Monday.
South Carolina mom charged with homicide in death of five-month-old
(Reuters) – A South Carolina mother was charged with homicide on Monday in the death of her five-month-old daughter, Grace, whose body was found in a creek last week, authorities said.
Three Alabama police officers suspended after violent arrest
(Reuters) – Three Alabama police officers were on administrative leave on Monday after videos appeared to show them using a stun gun and baton in the arrest of several university students, the Tuscaloosa police chief said on Monday, pledging to investi…
Pennsylvania Senate committee opens hearings on attorney general
HARRISBURG, Pa. (Reuters) – Three district attorneys told a Pennsylvania Senate committee reviewing Attorney General Kathleen Kane’s possible removal that an active law license was needed to do their jobs, as a hearing on the suspended legal officer be…
