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…
U.S. to stop collecting bulk phone data if spying law expires
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. intelligence agencies in June will stop bulk collection of data on calls by U.S. telephone subscribers, unless Congress extends a law authorizing the spying, U.S. officials said on Monday.
Protest planned in Connecticut over teen’s violent arrest
NEW HAVEN, Conn. (Reuters) – A protest was being planned for later on Monday outside the New Haven, Connecticut, police headquarters following the release of a video that showed a black teenaged girl being thrown to the ground by a white police officer…
U.S. hospitals’ uncompensated care fell by $7.4 billion in 2014: government
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The costs of caring for the uninsured at U.S. hospitals fell by an estimated $7.4 billion in 2014 due to the expansion of healthcare to millions of people under Obamacare, according to a government report released on Monday.
