Report of armed intruder in New Jersey school a hoax: investigators
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A report of an armed intruder that forced the evacuation of a New Jersey elementary school on Tuesday is being treated as a hoax, law enforcement officials said.
U.S. approval moves Shell a step closer to Arctic drilling
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Interior Department on Tuesday upheld a 2008 lease sale in the Chukchi Sea off Alaska, moving Royal Dutch Shell a step closer to returning to oil and gas exploration in the Arctic since it suffered mishaps in the region …
Driver slain at U.S. spy agency was Baltimore man with criminal record
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A Baltimore man with a criminal record was the driver shot dead by National Security Agency guards when he and another man, dressed as women, tried to crash their stolen SUV into the spy agency’s gates, according to court records…
Boston bombing defense rests after detailing brother’s research
BOSTON (Reuters) – Lawyers for accused Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev wrapped up their case on Tuesday after calling only four witnesses over two days.
Boston police investigating overnight fire and fatal shooting
BOSTON (Reuters) – Boston police are investigating an incident in which officers responding to an overnight call arrived at a flaming apartment building to discover a man who had been shot dead and an injured woman, a police spokeswoman said on Tuesday…
Mother of missing New York boy appears at trial of accused killer
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The mother of a New York boy missing since 1979 took the witness stand in the trial of his accused murderer on Tuesday, telling the jury that she has avoided the courtroom out of fear the descriptions of the crime would leave her s…
U.S. Supreme Court hesitant to extend Spider-Man toy royalties
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A Spider-Man toy that shoots out webs of foam was at the center of a U.S. Supreme Court hearing on Tuesday, with the justices appearing little inclined to overturn a half-century-old legal precedent to allow more royalty fees to …
As many Americans fear pilot crashes as they do hijacking
(Reuters) – Americans fear pilots purposely crashing an airliner as much as they are afraid of a hijacking, and over a quarter are more scared of flying than they were before a copilot crashed a jet in France last week, killing 150 people, a Reuters/Ip…
Movement to break up tiny Caribou, Maine, takes step forward
AUGUSTA, Maine (Reuters) – A group of residents of Caribou, Maine, who want to break away from the city of 7,952 people citing high taxes took their first formal step towards secession on Tuesday when officials confirmed they had enough signatures to b…
Obama vetoes Republican bid to block union election rules
(Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama on Tuesday vetoed a measure by Republicans in Congress that would have blocked a government labor agency’s rules designed to speed up the time it takes to unionize workers.
