Underground blasts in Indianapolis blow out manhole covers: report
(Reuters) – Manhole covers popped into the air and smoke billowed after a series of underground explosions in Indianapolis on Thursday morning, Indiana’s WHTR television reported.
Texas sues to block family medical leave for same-sex married couples
(Reuters) – The state of Texas sued the U.S. Labor Department over a rule that would grant family medical leave protections to all married same-sex couples, saying it violates the rights of states that don’t recognize gay marriage.
One killed, five wounded in shooting spree in Phoenix suburb
MESA, Ariz. (Reuters) – A gunman opened fire inside a motel room in the Phoenix suburb of Mesa on Wednesday, killing a man and wounding two women before shooting three more people as he sought to elude an exhaustive manhunt that ended in his capture, p…
Lawsuit targets U.S. program on suspicious behavior at airports
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A civil liberties group on Thursday sued the U.S. government for information about a program that screens airport passengers using behavior detection techniques that it says is a vehicle for racial and religious profiling.
Some video of Secret Service scandal may have been erased: CNN
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Surveillance video of two U.S. Secret Service agents drunk driving at the White House may have been erased as part of the agency’s policy of deleting recordings every 72 hours, CNN reported on Thursday.
Two more U.S. healthcare workers repatriated for Ebola monitoring
(Reuters) – The last two members of a group of U.S. healthcare workers whose colleague is being treated for the Ebola virus returned on Wednesday from Sierra Leone to the United States, where they are being monitored for possible exposure to the deadly…
Apparent murder-suicide investigated in California wine country: newspaper
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Authorities on Wednesday were investigating an apparent murder-suicide in Napa, California’s wine-producing region north of San Francisco, that left a troubled vineyard owner and his business partner dead, the San Francisco Ch…
U.S. may deport to China indicted ex-wife of fugitive Chinese official
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – The United States may deport to China the ex-wife of a fugitive Chinese official indicted on money laundering and immigration fraud charges, a U.S. prosecutor said on Wednesday.
Jury sees accused Boston bomber’s bombs, bloody sweatshirt
BOSTON (Reuters) – The Boston Marathon bombing trial jury on Wednesday saw two sides of defendant Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, in pipe bombs he is charged with hurling at police four days after the attack and the sweatshirt stained with his own blood he was arre…
Virginia to investigate bloody arrest of black college student
RICHMOND, Va. (Reuters) – Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe on Wednesday called for an investigation into the arrest of a black college student that left him bleeding from the head and sparked campus protests.
