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.
Texas woman arrested for ‘blood ritual’ kidnapping
SAN ANTONIO (Reuters) – A Texas woman who believed that the girlfriend of her dead brother played a role in his demise is suspected of kidnapping, drugging and performing a “blood ritual” on her, authorities said on Wednesday.
Bodies of two women discovered in Los Angeles park
(Reuters) – The bodies of two women were discovered in a Los Angeles park on Wednesday afternoon, police said.
Two Oregon men killed while filming WW2 tank destroyer
PORTLAND, Ore. (Reuters) – Two men killed by an explosion inside a tank-like armored fighting vehicle from World War Two were filming video of the weapon in action for a non-profit military preservation exhibit, authorities in Oregon said on Wednesday….
