Mother, boyfriend charged in death of toddler found on Boston Harbor beach
BOSTON (Reuters) – Massachusetts officials believe that the 2-1/2-year-old girl whose remains were found on a Boston Harbor beach three months ago was murdered and on Friday arrested her mother and her mother’s 35-year-old boyfriend, a county prosecuto…
Suspect in string of Arizona shootings arrested: authorities
(Reuters) – A suspect has been arrested in connection with a spate of shootings along a major highway that runs through Arizona, authorities said on Friday.
Baseball player in critical condition after New York drive-by shooting
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A former minor league baseball player who was drafted by the Oakland Athletics is in critical condition on Saturday after being wounded in a drive-by shooting early Friday morning in a New York suburb, police said.
Watching paint dry leads to Guinness world record in rural Indiana
INDIANAPOLIS (Reuters) – Mike Carmichael simply wanted to do something weird when he and his 3-year-old son slapped a coat of blue paint on a baseball in 1977.
Crews gain ground on California blazes, search for missing goes on
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Firefighters battling two deadly wildfires in drought-stricken California have gained more ground and some displaced people were allowed to go home, officials said on Friday, even as the search went on for people reported miss…
Alabama court voids lesbian couple’s Georgia adoption agreement
(Reuters) – The Supreme Court of Alabama on Friday overturned a lower court ruling that had recognized the 2007 adoption of three children in Georgia by one partner in a lesbian couple that has since split up.
Woman wishing to kill someone with bare hands charged in Montana strangling
(Reuters) – An Oregon woman who told police she had wanted to kill someone with her bare hands has been charged in Montana with deliberate homicide in the strangling death during a road trip of a homeless man she had been dating, according to court doc…
Army’s Bergdahl suffered some of the worst abuse of any U.S. POW: witness
SAN ANTONIO (Reuters) – Army Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl endured some of the worst abuse suffered by any U.S. prisoner of war in decades while held by the Taliban for five years, a defense official testified on Friday, while another said Bergdahl should not…
Utah flood toll rises to 20; dead Zion National Park hikers named
(Reuters) – Seven hikers swept to their deaths in a rain-swollen canyon in Utah’s Zion National Park were warned in advance that flash floods were forecast as probable but obtained a park permit for the outing anyway, park officials say.
California man tied to ‘Gone Girl’ kidnap pleads guilty in separate case
(Reuters) – A Northern California man suspected in a high-profile kidnapping that drew comparisons to the film “Gone Girl” pleaded no contest on Friday to charges that he later attempted a home robbery against another couple, prosecutors said.
