Brooklyn house fire kills seven from Orthodox Jewish family
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Seven children from an Orthodox Jewish family died early on Saturday when flames ripped through their Brooklyn home in one of New York City’s deadliest fires in years, officials said.
U.S. authorities seize $180 million Colombian cocaine shipment
BOGOTA (Reuters) – U.S. authorities confiscated a $180 million shipment of cocaine from Colombian drug traffickers aboard a boat on the Pacific Ocean bound for the United States, the Colombian attorney general’s office said on Saturday.
Seven skiers hurt in lift malfunction at Maine’s Sugarloaf resort
(Reuters) – Seven people were injured on Saturday when a ski lift at Maine’s popular Sugarloaf Mountain Resort malfunctioned, sending chairs rolling back on their cable, officials said.
Obama roots on Princeton women’s basketball team including niece
COLLEGE PARK, Md. (Reuters) – President Barack Obama, a hoops fanatic who relishes the annual March Madness college basketball tournaments, on Saturday cheered on the undefeated Princeton women’s team that includes his niece Leslie Robinson as the scho…
Confronting past, Mississippi town erects Emmett Till museum
SUMNER, Miss. (Reuters) – Six decades after the brutal slaying of Emmett Till, a 14-year-old black boy, the small Mississippi Delta town where two white men were acquitted of his murder is dedicating a museum to the event credited with helping spark th…
Officer shoots man who attacked TSA agents at New Orleans airport
NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) – A law enforcement officer shot a man who attacked several Transportation Security Administration (TSA) agents while armed with a machete and wasp spray at a New Orleans airport on Friday night, officials said.
Tech glitch causes false notices to Oregon crime victims
(Reuters) – A technical glitch on Friday evening caused an Oregon Department of Corrections (DOC) notification system to issue thousands of alerts to crime victims that the perpetrators would soon be released, according to officials and the Oregonian n…
Wisconsin federal judge finds state abortion law unconstitutional
(Reuters) – A federal judge in Wisconsin ruled as unconstitutional on Friday a state law requiring any doctor performing an abortion to have privileges to admit patients to a nearby hospital.
California man pleads guilty to fatal Halloween hit-and-run
(Reuters) – A man who struck and killed three 13-year-old California girls as they were trick-or-treating last Halloween and then fled in his damaged sport utility vehicle pleaded guilty on Friday to several felony charges, prosecutors said.
Alabama woman convicted of running granddaughter to death
(Reuters) – An Alabama jury on Friday convicted a woman of murdering her granddaughter by forcing the 9-year-old to run back and forward in a yard carrying wood for almost three hours as punishment, according to a spokeswoman for the local sheriff’s of…
