Northern California wildfire destroys hundreds of structures
MIDDLETOWN, Calif. (Reuters) – A rapidly spreading wildfire destroyed hundreds of homes and other buildings as it roared through the northern California village of Middletown and several nearby communities, chasing thousands of residents from their hom…
No active shooter on MIT campus in Massachusetts: officials
(Reuters) – Police are investigating a shooting on Sunday near the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, but the shooter is not believed to be on the campus, school officials said online and in social media.
Ad invokes Reagan to attack Republicans’ hard line on immigration
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Days before a Republican presidential debate at the Ronald Reagan Library, an immigration advocacy group invoked the former president to attack the tough immigration rhetoric of certain candidates, including front-runner Donald T…
Police arrest ‘copycats’ in Arizona highway shootings
(Reuters) – Three teenagers were arrested in Arizona after police say they were launching rocks at cars and pedestrians with a slingshot in an apparent “copycat” attack inspired by a wave of vehicle shootings along a major highway in Phoenix, authoriti…
Death toll from Oklahoma prison fight rises to four
(Reuters) – A fourth inmate has died and three others remained hospitalized on Sunday, a day after a fight broke out at a privately-owned prison in Oklahoma, prison and state officials said.
America’s city rankings set for Texas-sized shake up; Houston to edge past Chicago
HOUSTON (Reuters) – Hidden in the haze of the petrochemical plants and beyond the seemingly endless traffic jams, a Texas city has grown so large that it is poised to pass Chicago as the third biggest in the United States in the next decade.
Two sides resume talks in Seattle teachers’ strike
(Reuters) – The Seattle public school district and a teachers’ union resumed talks on Saturday, three days after instructors went on strike and delayed the start of fall classes for 53,000 students, officials said.
NY woman in kayak death told police she wanted fiance dead: video
(Reuters) – A woman accused of murdering her fiance by pulling the plug on his kayak in the Hudson River in New York told a detective she wanted him dead, according to a video clip of her interrogation to be aired by the CBS program “48 Hours” Saturday…
Missouri mother jailed after children, 4 and 6, found in cave crate
KANSAS CITY, Mo (Reuters) – A Missouri woman faces charges of endangering the welfare of her two children, ages 4 and 6, after they were found in a cave, apparently living in a crate among disassembled vehicles, in a suspected illegal “chop shop.”
Person of interest in Arizona shootings not ‘prime suspect’
(Reuters) – A 19-year-old Arizona man who was questioned as a person of interest in the Phoenix area’s spate of highway shootings is not the prime suspect and the investigation continues, authorities said on Saturday.
