California wildfires expand after death of firefighter
(Reuters) – Firefighters rushed to contain a pair of fast-moving wildfires in Northern California on Saturday as they mourned the death of a U.S. Forest Service firefighter killed this week in the battle against one of the blazes, officials said.
Man pleads not guilty in incident outside U.S. Capitol building
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A Pennsylvania man pleaded not guilty Saturday to charges that he ignored police and slammed his car into a barricade outside the U.S. Capitol building Friday, according to court documents, in the latest security alert at the Was…
Four dead, 65 sick in New York City Legionnaires’ disease outbreak
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A deadly outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease, a severe type of pneumonia, has now killed four people and sickened 65 in the Bronx section of New York City since July 10, New York City health officials said on Saturday.
Officials delay reopening of New Mexico nuclear waste site
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (Reuters) – The planned March 2016 reopening of an underground nuclear waste dump in New Mexico has been pushed back indefinitely because of unanticipated challenges, U.S. officials said.
Minneapolis airport terminal area briefly evacuated in bomb scare
(Reuters) – Part of a Minneapolis-St.Paul International Airport terminal was briefly evacuated and the upper airport roadway closed on Saturday after an unattended bag tested positive for explosives, a spokeswoman said.
March to Washington begins with civil rights rally in Selma
(Reuters) – NAACP leaders launched a 40-day march across the U.S. South on Saturday with a rally in Selma, Alabama, drawing on that city’s significance in the 1960s civil rights movement to call attention to the issue of racial injustice in modern Amer…
Private equity pioneer Jerome Kohlberg dies
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Jerome Kohlberg Jr., a founder of investment firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co and a pioneer of the leveraged buyout, died on Thursday at his home in Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts, aged 90.
Texas trooper who arrested Sandra Bland had been warned over conduct: AP
(Reuters) – The Texas trooper who arrested a black woman later found hanged to death in jail was warned about his “unprofessional conduct” in 2014, according to documents obtained by the Associated Press.
Rapper Snoop Dogg stopped in Italy airport with $422,000 in cash
ROME (Reuters) – Italian police stopped California rapper Snoop Dogg on Friday as he prepared to board a private plane bound for Britain with $422,000 in cash in his Louis Vuitton luggage, said an Italian lawyer representing the entertainer.
Sleepy Sturgis, South Dakota revs up for mammoth motorcycle rally
STURGIS, S.D. (Reuters) – Outside the Knuckle Saloon, co-owner Ken McNenny lights a cigarette, leans on a bar and nods to a steady stream of motorcycles humming up and down the street days before the official start of the annual rally in Sturgis, South…
