Northern California wildfire grows further after jumping highway
(Reuters) – California’s biggest and fiercest wildfire of the year grew larger as it raged for a seventh day through drought-parched chaparral and ranch lands north of Napa Valley wine country after jumping a highway that authorities hoped would slow i…
New York City’s new drug threat: ‘weaponized marijuana’
NEW YORK (Reuters) – It gives users super human strength, makes them impervious to pain and can be bought for as little as $2 across New York. It can also kill, police say.
Americans say blacks treated less fairly in 2015 than 2007: Gallup
NEW YORK (Reuters) – In the wake of high profile killings of unarmed black men by police, Americans feel blacks are treated less fairly today than they were in 2007, according to survey results released on Tuesday.
Police hunt survivalist fugitive in rugged California terrain
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Police were searching remote deserts and foothills in Central California on Tuesday for a unidentified fugitive with survivalist skills wanted in a brazen crime spree that a includes a kidnapping and the murder of a retired dent…
Four Michigan residents charged with buying, selling bear parts
(Reuters) – Four Michigan residents have been charged with buying and selling black bear parts, which are used for medicinal purposes in Asia, officials said on Tuesday.
Man pleads not guilty in New Jersey’s first state terrorism case
(Reuters) – A Washington state man pleaded not guilty on Tuesday to charges of murdering a college student in New Jersey in an act of “vengeance” for U.S. military action in the Middle East.
Milwaukee archdiocese reaches $21 million settlement with abuse victims
MILWAUKEE (Reuters) – The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Milwaukee has reached a $21 million settlement with 330 victims of sexual abuse by clergy, church officials said on Tuesday.
Ex-medic testifies that accused Taliban fighter shot at U.S. troops
RICHMOND, Va. (Reuters) – A former Army medic testified on Tuesday that an accused Russian Taliban fighter shot at U.S. troops during a firefight that followed a failed insurgent attack on an Afghan base in 2009.
Major U.S. airlines end trophy hunter shipments after Cecil outcry
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Three U.S. airlines have banned the transport of lion, leopard, elephant, rhino or buffalo killed by trophy hunters, in the latest fallout from the killing of Zimbabwe’s Cecil the lion last month.
Drone drops heroin, marijuana and tobacco in Ohio prison yard
(Reuters) – A drone dropped a package of heroin, marijuana and tobacco in the recreation yard of an Ohio prison last week, sparking a fight among inmates trying to pick up the contraband, prison officials said on Tuesday.
