As oil trains roll across America, volunteer firefighters face big risk
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Volunteers at the Galena, Illinois, fire department were hosing down the smoldering wreck of a derailed BNSF oil train on the east bank of the Mississippi River on March 5 when a fire suddenly flared beyond their control. Minutes l…
Virginia police say no evidence for Rolling Stone’s college rape story
(Reuters) – A police investigation has found no evidence to back up a discredited Rolling Stone magazine story about a gang rape at a University of Virginia fraternity, officials said on Monday.
Arizona girl, 16, arrested for smuggling 185 lbs of marijuana
(Reuters) – U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers have arrested a 16-year-old Arizona girl and two women in their 20s who were with her when she allegedly tried to smuggle 185 pounds of marijuana into the United States from Mexico, authorities sa…
Three dead, one hurt in construction accident in North Carolina
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (Reuters) – Three workers were killed and a fourth was injured on Monday after scaffolding collapsed at a high-rise building under construction in Raleigh, North Carolina, an emergency medical services spokesman said.
Rooftop bar owners argue Chicago Cubs’ signs would kill business
CHICAGO (Reuters) – Owners of rooftop venues with views into Chicago’s historic Wrigley Field asked a federal judge on Monday to block the Chicago Cubs baseball team from putting up signs over right field, saying they would block views and destroy thei…
Missing student found alive but injured in Yosemite National Park
(Reuters) – A college student who went missing in Yosemite National Park over the weekend was found alive on Monday but suffering from multiple injuries, about a quarter mile from where he was last seen, park rangers said.
Texas boy, 12, in custody for fatal shooting of 13-year-old friend
AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) – A 12-year-old boy has been taken into police custody for the homicide of a 13-year-old who was shot when the two were playing with a gun in a suburban Dallas home last month, police said on Monday.
Arizona judge drops charges against ex-death row inmate Milke
PHOENIX (Reuters) – A judge in Arizona formally exonerated a woman on Monday who spent more than two decades on death row for the 1989 murder of her 4-year-old son before a federal appeals court tossed out the conviction.
Mexican laborer slain by police in U.S. faced swiftly crumbling life
PASCO, Wash. (Reuters) – The afternoon before Antonio Zambrano-Montes was shot dead by police after he pelted them with rocks, the farmworker had walked out of a Washington state jail a free man.
Ex-NFL star Sharper pleads no contest in Los Angeles to two rapes
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Former National Football League star Darren Sharper pleaded no contest on Monday to charges in Los Angeles of drugging four women and raping two of them, after receiving a nine-year prison sentence for a sexual assault case in A…
