Seattle police officer fired over arrest of elderly black man with golf club
(Reuters) – A Seattle police officer was fired on Tuesday over her arrest of an elderly black man last year who refused to drop a golf club he was using as a cane to help him walk, the police department announced.
Boeing KC-46A tanker to make first flight on Sept. 25: U.S. Air Force
NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. (Reuters) – Boeing Co’s first fully equipped KC-46A refueling plane is scheduled to complete its first flight on Sept. 25, the Air Force general in charge of tanker programs said Tuesday.
U.S. Air Force warns F-35 order review could damage program
NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. (Reuters) – U.S. Air Force Chief of Staff General Mark Welsh on Tuesday warned that short-term moves to revise downward the Air Force’s planned purchase of 1,763 Lockheed Martin Corp F-35 stealth fighters could damage the program a…
Former president Carter urges Germany to take lead in migrant crisis
ATLANTA (Reuters) – Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter on Tuesday called on Germany to take the lead in solving the European migrant crisis, a situation he compared to the flow of Vietnamese and Cambodian refugees to the United States during his presid…
Person involved in Beverly Hills luxury car incident claims diplomatic immunity: police
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – One of the participants in an incident caught on video in which two luxury cars zoomed through residential streets in Beverly Hills, California, over the weekend has claimed diplomatic immunity, police said.
Man charged in Virginia student’s death indicted in second murder
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A former hospital worker already facing trial in the murder last year of University of Virginia student Hannah Graham was indicted on Tuesday in the killing of another college student who went missing in 2009.
Property toll from Northern California wildfire grows to 585 homes
MIDDLETOWN, Calif. (Reuters) – Property losses from a deadly Northern California wildfire, the most destructive this year in the western United States, climbed on Tuesday to at least 585 homes and hundreds of other structures that have gone up in flame…
Flash floods kill at least 15 in Utah
SALT LAKE CITY (Reuters) – Flash floods killed 12 people near Utah’s border with Arizona when a “large wall of water and debris” triggered by heavy rain pounding nearby canyons swept them away in their cars, officials said on Tuesday.
Cuban migrants – and their dog – come ashore on Miami Beach
MIAMI (Reuters) – A group of 12 Cuban migrants in a makeshift sailboat – 11 men, a woman and a dog – washed onto the tourist-lined sands of Miami Beach on Tuesday to cheers from onlookers on the beach.
Suspect in shooting of girlfriend and Mississippi professor left behind apology note
(Reuters) – A Mississippi college instructor suspected of gunning down his live-in girlfriend and a professor colleague before taking his own life, left behind a note of apology, police said on Tuesday.
