Body found in search for U.S. ship that vanished in hurricane
MIAMI (Reuters) – Missing cargo ship El Faro, hit by powerful Hurricane Joaquin, is believed to have sunk off the Bahamas and one presumed crew member is confirmed dead, the U.S. Coast Guard said on Monday.
Nine dead in historic South Carolina rains and flooding
WEST COLUMBIA, S.C. (Reuters) – Floodwaters inundating South Carolina after unprecedented rainfall have resulted in nine deaths, more than 500 road and bridge closures and hundreds of rescues of people trapped in homes and cars by the rising water, off…
University of Texas debates guns on campus after Oregon shooting
AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) – A law to allow guns in more places at the University of Texas system would increase the danger on campuses and could not prevent mass killings like the one last week in Oregon, faculty and students told a forum on Monday.
Benghazi committee Democrats say they’ll release witness transcripts
WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) – The Democratic minority on a U.S. congressional committee investigating the attack in Benghazi, Libya, intend to defy the committee’s Republican leaders by releasing the transcript of a closed-door interview with a forme…
Oregon college shaken by massacre reopens with counselors, comfort dogs
ROSEBURG, Ore. (Reuters) – Students still shaken from a shooting rampage days earlier that claimed 10 lives were welcomed back on Monday by grief counselors and comfort dogs to their community college in southern Oregon, but classes remained canceled t…
Yellowstone National Park sets record year with 3.8 million visitors so far
CODY, Wyoming (Reuters) – More people visited Yellowstone National Park last month than any September previously, and the park has set a new annual visitation record with nearly three months still left in the year.
Obama heads to Oregon to meet shooting victims’ families Friday
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama will travel to Roseburg, Oregon, on Friday to meet privately with the families of the victims of the recent mass shooting there, a White House official said on Monday.
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.
