California woman arrested on charges of burying baby alive
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – A Southern California woman has been arrested on charges that she buried alive her newborn daughter under pieces of asphalt and rubble, in a case in which police successfully rescued the infant, authorities said on Monday.
Puerto Rico’s embattled governor to announce this week if he’ll run again
SAN JUAN (Reuters) – Puerto Rico Governor Alejandro Garcia Padilla, buffeted by a struggling economy, a federal corruption probe and weak poll numbers, will announce this week whether he plans to seek a second term, his spokesman told reporters on Mond…
Special Report: In the heart of U.S. opioid epidemic, help finds mother and baby
CHARLESTON, West Virginia (Reuters) – This story has a chance of ending happily. But it begins last fall in a mangy downtown apartment as Katy Yeager, seven months pregnant, stares at a syringe and the crumpled foil that holds $40 worth of heroin.
Special Report: As social services stand back, mother and baby fall ‘into hell’
BROOKSVILLE, Florida (Reuters) – Jennifer Lacey Frazier recently completed drug treatment and parenting classes. The help came too late to save her daughter, Jacey.
New York City approves $20 million for guards in private schools
NEW YORK (Reuters) – New York City will spend nearly $20 million next year to pay for unarmed security guards at private and religious schools, despite criticism from outside groups.
Immediate medical help would have prevented death of Baltimore man: prosecution
BALTIMORE (Reuters) – The prosecution in the case of a Baltimore police officer charged in the death of a black man in custody said he would not have died had he received immediate medical help, while a defense lawyer attacked the findings of a medical…
FBI says California shooters were radicalized for ‘some time’
SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. (Reuters) – Investigators believe the married couple who massacred 14 people in California last week – the U.S.-born husband and his Pakistani wife – had been radicalized “for some time,” but no clues pointing to an international…
Chipotle shares take another hit after Boston College athletes fall ill
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Shares of Chipotle Mexican Grill Inc fell 4.7 percent in extended trading on Monday, after Boston College said students, including members of the men’s basketball team, fell ill after dining at the popular burrito chain.
Peru arrests American accused of running child sex tourism ring
LIMA (Reuters) – Peruvian authorities arrested an American man charged with running a child sex tourism ring out of Lima for the past 10 years and rescued 11 victims aged between 4 and 17, police said on Monday.
Bomb threat triggers evacuations at Florida college: social media
TAMPA, Fla. (Reuters) – Daytona State College alerted students that it had received a “specific bomb threat” on Monday and was evacuating several buildings at its campus in Daytona Beach, Florida, officials said.
