Second body recovered after New York building gas explosion
NEW YORK (Reuters) – New York emergency crews recovered a second body from the rubble of a Brooklyn apartment building destroyed in a gas explosion and fire over the weekend, city officials said on Monday.
American civil rights activist Grace Boggs dies in Detroit at 100
DETROIT (Reuters) – Grace Lee Boggs, an author and activist in the feminist, labor, civil rights and environmental justice movements, died in Detroit on Monday at the age of 100, according to her Facebook page.
Amtrak train derails in Vermont, seven people hospitalized
(Reuters) – An Amtrak passenger train hit debris from a rockslide and derailed in central Vermont on Monday, sending at least seven people to the hospital, officials said.
Trial of alleged Virginia serial killer gets under way
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The trial of an eccentric former Virginia political candidate charged with murdering three people over an 11-year period started on Monday with jury selection.
California governor signs bill legalizing physician-assisted suicide
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (Reuters) – Physician-assisted suicide will become legal in California under a bill signed into law on Monday by Democratic Governor Jerry Brown, despite intense opposition from some religious and disability rights groups.
Tennessee boy, 11, held for killing 8-year-old girl over puppies: sheriff
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (Reuters) – An 11-year-old eastern Tennessee boy was in custody for murder on Monday for shooting and killing an 8-year-old neighbor girl with a shotgun because she would not show him her puppies, authorities said.
Gun safety group recommends action by president
CHICAGO (Reuters) – A gun safety group urged the White House on Monday to take a series of steps it said would help prevent the kind of mass shooting that killed 10 people at an Oregon community college last week and renewed the debate on gun control.
L.A. to pay $2.85 million for black man’s death in police custody
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Attorneys for the city of Los Angeles have agreed to pay $2.85 million to the family of a black grandfather who died in police custody after being shot with an electric stun gun and placed in a choke hold, according to court rec…
Pilot falls ill, dies on American flight from Phoenix to Boston
(Reuters) – A pilot fell ill and died on an American Airlines flight headed to Boston from Phoenix on Monday and the copilot landed the plane safely in Syracuse, New York, airline and police officials said.
Two arrested in Arkansas for threatening attacks at schools
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (Reuters) – A 14-year-old Arkansas junior high school student suspected of posting a warning on social media that he would “shoot up” a school near his home was charged on Monday with first-degree terroristic threatening, police said….
