Another apparent suicide of Missouri state official: police
(Reuters) – Less than a month after the suicide of Missouri’s state auditor, one of the official’s top aides has also been found dead in what appears to be a suicide, police said Monday.
U.S. defense chief sees military recruitment challenges ahead
ABINGTON, Pa. (Reuters) – The U.S. military faces a challenge recruiting people with the high-tech skills it needs for the future as those who joined after the Sep. 11, 2001 attacks leave the service and the U.S. economy creates more jobs, Defense Secr…
New York state lawmakers reach budget deal
NEW YORK (Reuters) – New York state lawmakers agreed on a budget plan late on Sunday night that includes much-debated reforms to the education system and ethics standards for lawmakers, Governor Andrew Cuomo and legislative leaders said in statement.
Supreme Court rejects free speech appeal over Cinco de Mayo school dispute
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday left intact an appeals court ruling that school officials in California did not violate the free speech rights of students by demanding they remove T-shirts bearing images of the U.S. flag at an e…
Supreme Court preserves New York ban on worship services in schools
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday left intact New York City’s ban on religious worship services inside school buildings after hours.
U.S. Supreme Court rejects Obamacare ‘death panel’ challenge
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear a new challenge to President Barack Obama’s healthcare law that took aim at a bureaucratic board labeled by some Republicans as a “death panel” because it was designed to cut Medi…
Eight dead, 10 injured in Florida van crash
(Reuters) – Eight people were killed and 10 were hurt in Florida on Monday when their church van drove through a stop sign and crashed into a road-side ditch that was partially filled with water, authorities said.
Two missing men likely found amid NYC gas explosion rubble: fire official
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Two bodies found on Sunday at the site of a gas explosion that destroyed three New York City apartment buildings last week, injuring 22 people, were believed to be those of two unaccounted for men, the city’s top fire official said…
Firefighters gain on Montana fire that forced evacuation of ski area
(Reuters) – Firefighters in Montana on Sunday were working to contain a wildfire that forced the evacuation of hundreds from a ski area as flames driven by high winds threatened to engulf the only road to and from the resort, officials said.
Boston police officer shot in the face improving after surgery
(Reuters) – A Boston police officer who was shot in the face by a man during a traffic stop was improving after hours of surgery during which a bullet was removed from his neck, officials said on Sunday.
