Back to the future: A last look at NYC’s 1960’s-era TWA Flight Center
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Thousands of visitors are expected at New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport on Sunday to get a last look at the iconic architecture of the Trans World Airlines Flight Center before the futuristic 1960’s building is conve…
Suspect dead after killing sheriff’s deputy at Minnesota hospital
(Reuters) – A sheriff’s deputy was shot and killed on Sunday by a suspect who was being guarded at a Minnesota hospital, and the assailant later died, state authorities said.
Reinventing New Jersey as ‘Garden State’ with ethnic crops, tourism
VINELAND, N.J. (Reuters) – Craving a taste of his native Liberia 4,500 miles (7,200 km)away, maintenance worker Alfred Jones drove just 20 miles from his New Jersey home and waded knee deep into rows of pick-your-own African vegetables at Morris Gbolo’…
Reputed NY mobster faces trial for 1978 ‘Goodfellas’ heist
NEW YORK (Reuters) – For nearly four decades, it remained one of America’s most infamous unsolved crimes: on Dec. 11, 1978, a crew of masked men stole $6 million in cash and jewelry from a Lufthansa Airlines cargo building at John F. Kennedy Airport in…
Tracy Morgan returns to ‘Saturday Night Live’ 20 months after near-fatal car wreck
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Tracy Morgan returned to “Saturday Night Live” on Saturday to host the long-running comedy show on which he shot to fame, more than a year after he suffered near-fatal injuries in a deadly high-speed car accident.
New Jersey tech institute wins U.S. solar home design competition
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Students from New Jersey-based Stevens Institute of Technology won the U.S. Department of Energy’s Solar Decathlon, taking the top trophy at the event in California by building a flood-resistant house that is also energy efficie…
Hawaii governor signs emergency proclamation to address homelessness
(Reuters) – Hawaii’s governor has signed an emergency proclamation to deal with the problem of homelessness, saying the state faces the country’s highest per capita rate of homelessness and more needs to be done to house the indigent.
Sketches of suspects in stabbing of French train hero released
(Reuters) – Police in Sacramento on Saturday released sketches of suspects believed to have been involved this month in the stabbing of U.S. Air Force airman Spencer Stone, one of the Americans who thwarted an August train attack in France.
Two books, borrowed 52 years ago, returned to library in Oregon
(Reuters) – Two overdue books borrowed more than 50 years ago from a library in Portland, Oregon, have finally been returned, but the identity of whoever had them for all these years may never be known.
Oregon mass shooting survivor posts account of blood, pain and healing
(Reuters) – “The shots knocked me to the ground and felt like a truck hit me,” wrote Chris Mintz in his first public account of being shot five times during the deadly rampage at an Oregon community college while trying to warn fellow students to take …
