Gunman in Mohammad cartoon attack in Texas monitored for years
GARLAND, Texas/PHOENIX (Reuters) – Federal agents for years monitored one of the two gunmen who were shot dead after opening fire with assault rifles at a heavily guarded Texas exhibit of caricatures of the Prophet Mohammad.
Obama says inequality facing minority men behind unrest in Baltimore, Ferguson
(Reuters) – Following a week of racially charged protests in Baltimore, U.S. President Barack Obama on Monday said obstacles facing minority men from birth put them in a position of having “the odds stacked against them.”
NYPD officer shot in head dies, commissioner cites historic anti-police sentiment
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A New York City plainclothes police officer who was shot in the head died on Monday, the fifth officer gunned down in as many months amid anti-law enforcement sentiment not seen since the turbulent 1960s, Police Commissioner Bill B…
No bomb found at Georgia’s Clayton State University after threat
(Reuters) – Clayton State University was reopened Monday evening, hours after a bomb threat triggered an evacuation of the Atlanta-area school’s main campus.
No bomb found at Georgia’s Clayton State University after threat
(Reuters) – Clayton State University was reopened Monday evening, hours after a bomb threat triggered an evacuation of the Atlanta-area school’s main campus.
Five U.S. aircraft landed at wrong airports since 2012: NTSB
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Five U.S. aircraft, including a Southwest Airlines Boeing 737 and an Atlas Air Boeing 747 cargo plane, landed at the wrong airports in recent years due to preventable air traffic control errors, U.S. safety experts said on Monday…
Police search for Missouri man accused of holding woman captive in box
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (Reuters) – A Missouri man was charged on Monday in connection with allegations he held his girlfriend captive in a wooden box in their home, and is being sought by police, authorities said.
Baltimore police say man’s gun discharged during arrest, no injuries
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Baltimore police denied a media report on Monday they had shot a black man while trying to take him into custody, saying the man’s firearm went off accidentally while officers were arresting him and that no one was injured.
Family urges charges for Cleveland officer who fatally shot boy
CLEVELAND (Reuters) – The family of a 12-year-old boy fatally shot last year by a Cleveland police officer as he held a replica handgun in a park criticized what they called delays in an investigation and on Monday renewed calls for officers to be char…
Boston bomber’s brother voiced a ‘rage of hatred,’ court hears
BOSTON (Reuters) – Convicted Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s brother frightened at least one relative during a visit to Russia in 2012 when he espoused radical Islamist beliefs, a family member said on Monday.
