At least 20 sickened at Texas school by gas leak
DALLAS (Reuters) – At least 20 people, including six children, were treated for nausea and vomiting at a Texas elementary school that was evacuated on Friday because of a gas leak, according to emergency officials.
New York woman with eight husbands denies fraud charges
A New York City woman accused of being married to eight men at the same time pleaded not guilty in state court in the Bronx on Friday to two counts of felony fraud that prosecutors say stemmed from a scheme to gain U.S. citizenship for grooms from coun…
Tennessee woman awakens from months-long coma, learns she gave birth
(Reuters) – A Tennessee woman awakened this week from a four-month-long coma that doctors had feared would be permanent and learned that she had given birth to a baby boy, according to her family.
Kansas man arrested in bomb plot in support of Islamic State: U.S.
WASHINGTON/KANSAS CITY (Reuters) – A U.S. man was arrested on Friday as part of a sting operation by the FBI in which he was plotting a suicide car bombing at Fort Riley army base in Kansas in support of the Islamic State militant group, prosecutors sa…
Georgia to allow hormone therapy for transgender inmates
ATLANTA (Reuters) – Transgender inmates in Georgia will be eligible to receive hormone therapy treatments while in prison, Georgia corrections officials said on Friday as they contend with a lawsuit filed by a transgender prisoner denied hormones.
Study finds Virginia leads nation in referring students to police
(Reuters) – Virginia leads the nation in the number of students it sends to police, and nationwide special needs and black children are disproportionately affected, a study released on Friday showed.
Northern Illinois tornado kills at least two, injures 20
(Reuters) – At least two people were killed and 20 injured when a tornado ripped through a small northern Illinois town on Thursday night, Illinois Governor Bruce Rauner said on Friday.
Disabled Connecticut man ordered freed after 26 years in prison
HARTFORD, Conn. (Reuters) – A judge on Friday ordered the release of a 69-year-old mentally disabled Connecticut man who has been imprisoned for a quarter century for rape and murder based on a contested confession but was found last month to have been…
Kansas study shows USDA land value surveys below market prices
CHICAGO (Reuters) – Actual farmland prices in Kansas, the top U.S. wheat state, generally run far higher than values shown from surveys of farmland owners conducted by the U.S. Agriculture Department, according to a study by a Kansas State University e…
Air Force general reprimanded over A-10 ‘treason’ remark
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – An Air Force major general has been formally reprimanded and removed from his job for telling a group of officers that talking to Congress in a bid to block retirement of the A-10 Warthog amounted to “treason,” the Air Force said…
