Video gamers win millions of dollars in Seattle championship
SEATTLE (Reuters) – Teams of video gamers playing characters ranging from wizards to monsters exchanged virtual punches, fireballs and lightning strikes over the past six days, battling at the main event of the Dota 2 International 2015 tournament in S…
FBI aid sought in Texas probe of unarmed black man shot dead by police
DALLAS (Reuters) – The FBI has been asked to aid the investigation into the shooting death of an unarmed black man by a white officer in Arlington, Texas, the city’s police chief told reporters on Saturday.
Plume from Colorado mine spill reaches New Mexico
(Reuters) – A contaminated plume of waste water accidentally released from a Colorado gold mine by U.S. environmental agency workers has spread downstream and reached northern New Mexico, officials said on Saturday.
Hiker found dead at Yellowstone was attacked by grizzly: officials
(Reuters) – At least one grizzly bear attacked a hiker who was found dead and partially eaten in Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming, judging by wounds on his arms, park officials said on Saturday.
Fear, mistrust linger in Ferguson despite reform efforts by police
FERGUSON, Mo. (Reuters) – The scene outside the Ferguson Police Department in Missouri on Friday night was familiar: A crowd of 300 protesters, angry over last year’s fatal police shooting of an unarmed black teen, went toe-to-toe with a line of office…
Delta flight makes emergency landing in Denver due to hail
DENVER (Reuters) – A Delta airliner flying from Boston to Salt Lake City encountered a hail storm and was forced to make an emergency landing in Denver, a federal official said on Saturday.
New York to clean cooling towers in outbreak area by Sunday: mayor
NEW YORK (Reuters) – New York officials expect by Sunday to complete a city-ordered cleaning of cooling towers in the South Bronx that were tied to an outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease that has killed 10 people, Mayor Bill de Blasio told reporters on S…
Police shoot to death California man who stabbed six people
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – A 28-year-old man armed with a large knife wounded six people, including three employees at a convalescent home, when he went on a stabbing spree in Long Beach, California, before police shot him to death, officials said on Satu…
Three found dead in northern Vermont, link seen to Friday attack: police
(Reuters) – Three women were found dead in their northern Vermont home on Saturday morning, state police said, in an attack that appeared to be linked to a Friday incident in which a woman who had recently lost custody of her child shot dead a state em…
Texas officer shoots dead unarmed, black college student
(Reuters) – A Texas police officer fatally shot an unarmed, black 19-year-old college football player suspected of driving a car through the window of a Dallas-area car dealership, authorities said on Saturday.
