Michigan boy held in basement says stepmother led him to hiding spot
DETROIT (Reuters) – A Michigan boy who was found emaciated in his own basement after an 11-day manhunt last year told a court on Wednesday that his stepmother led him to a downstairs hiding spot and urged him to remain quiet while authorities searched …
Ex-FDIC head Sheila Bair named president of Maryland college
(Reuters) – Sheila Bair, an outspoken critic of Wall Street during her time as chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp, has been named president of a liberal arts college near Baltimore.
Illinois governor says no bailout for Chicago
CHICAGO (Reuters) – Illinois Governor Bruce Rauner on Wednesday told the Chicago City Council that the state’s “terrible financial crisis” means there is no money to bail out the city from its own fiscal mess.
Chicago council approves reparations for police torture victims
CHICAGO (Reuters) – Chicago will pay a total of up to $5.5 million to dozens of people tortured by the city’s police in the 1970s and 1980s and make other reparations such as a memorial to torture victims under an ordinance approved by the city council…
Former U.S. House Speaker Jim Wright of Texas dies at 92
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Former U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Jim Wright, a Texas Democrat known for hardball politics who quit amid accusations of financial impropriety, has died at the age of 92, the Texas Democratic Party said.
Oil train derails in North Dakota, small town evacuated
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A train carrying crude oil derailed and caught fire in Wells County, North Dakota on Wednesday, officials said, just days after the U.S. government announced sweeping reforms to improve safety of the volatile shipments.
Florida woman’s online order asks for pizza, police help
ORLANDO, Fla. (Reuters) – Employees at a Pizza Hut in Florida were praised on Wednesday for helping rescue a customer who wrote a message in her online pizza order that she was being held hostage and needed someone to call 911, authorities said.
NHC says 60 percent chance of cyclone for storm approaching Bahamas
(Reuters) – An upper-level trough and a weak surface low located over the
Drought forces California into first mandatory rules to save water
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (Reuters) – California water regulators on Tuesday adopted the state’s first rules for mandatory cutbacks in urban water use as the region’s catastrophic drought enters its fourth year.
U.S. probing Islamic State claims it was behind Texas cartoon attack
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. investigators were looking into claims by the Islamic State that it was behind a failed attack on a Texas exhibit of cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad in which two gunmen were killed, but officials said on Tuesday they doubte…
