Benghazi committee Democrats say they’ll release witness transcripts
WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) – The Democratic minority on a U.S. congressional committee investigating the attack in Benghazi, Libya, intend to defy the committee’s Republican leaders by releasing the transcript of a closed-door interview with a forme…
Oregon college shaken by massacre reopens with counselors, comfort dogs
ROSEBURG, Ore. (Reuters) – Students still shaken from a shooting rampage days earlier that claimed 10 lives were welcomed back on Monday by grief counselors and comfort dogs to their community college in southern Oregon, but classes remained canceled t…
Yellowstone National Park sets record year with 3.8 million visitors so far
CODY, Wyoming (Reuters) – More people visited Yellowstone National Park last month than any September previously, and the park has set a new annual visitation record with nearly three months still left in the year.
Obama heads to Oregon to meet shooting victims’ families Friday
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama will travel to Roseburg, Oregon, on Friday to meet privately with the families of the victims of the recent mass shooting there, a White House official said on Monday.
Second body recovered after New York building gas explosion
NEW YORK (Reuters) – New York emergency crews recovered a second body from the rubble of a Brooklyn apartment building destroyed in a gas explosion and fire over the weekend, city officials said on Monday.
American civil rights activist Grace Boggs dies in Detroit at 100
DETROIT (Reuters) – Grace Lee Boggs, an author and activist in the feminist, labor, civil rights and environmental justice movements, died in Detroit on Monday at the age of 100, according to her Facebook page.
Amtrak train derails in Vermont, seven people hospitalized
(Reuters) – An Amtrak passenger train hit debris from a rockslide and derailed in central Vermont on Monday, sending at least seven people to the hospital, officials said.
Trial of alleged Virginia serial killer gets under way
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The trial of an eccentric former Virginia political candidate charged with murdering three people over an 11-year period started on Monday with jury selection.
California governor signs bill legalizing physician-assisted suicide
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (Reuters) – Physician-assisted suicide will become legal in California under a bill signed into law on Monday by Democratic Governor Jerry Brown, despite intense opposition from some religious and disability rights groups.
Tennessee boy, 11, held for killing 8-year-old girl over puppies: sheriff
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (Reuters) – An 11-year-old eastern Tennessee boy was in custody for murder on Monday for shooting and killing an 8-year-old neighbor girl with a shotgun because she would not show him her puppies, authorities said.
