Two-year-old Kentucky boy killed by train while walking with dog
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (Reuters) – A two-year-old boy was struck and killed by a train on Monday while he was walking with a dog along railroad tracks in southwestern Kentucky, police said.
FAA probing near miss between planes at New York airport
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The Federal Aviation Administration said on Monday that it was investigating whether an air traffic control problem caused a near miss between two planes in New York over the weekend.
Tributes, protests mark U.S. Martin Luther King Jr. Day
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Tributes to civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. were held nationwide on Monday as protests over the treatment of minorities by law enforcement rolled on across the country.
Oil spills in Montana’s Yellowstone River after pipeline leak
(Reuters) – Bridger Pipeline LLC said on Monday it has shut the 42,000 barrel per day Poplar pipeline system after a weekend breach that sent as much as 1,200 barrels of crude oil into the Yellowstone River near Glendive, Montana.
Former ‘enemy combatant’ back in Qatar after release from U.S. prison
CHARLESTON, S.C. (Reuters) – A Qatari man declared an enemy combatant following the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks and imprisoned as an al Qaeda operative has been freed from a U.S. prison and is back in Qatar, his lawyer said on Sunday.
Icy roads lead to crashes, five deaths in U.S. Northeast
(Reuters) – Five people were killed and others injured in crashes on icy roads in Pennsylvania and Connecticut on Sunday, authorities said.
Icy roads lead to crashes, four deaths in U.S. Northeast
(Reuters) – Four people were killed and others injured in crashes on icy roads in Pennsylvania and Connecticut on Sunday morning, authorities said.
Man killed in Florida mall tried to shield woman, police say
(Reuters) – Police on Sunday identified a man shot to death at a Florida shopping mall on Saturday and said he was apparently trying to protect a woman who was wounded in the attack.
University of Virginia legal costs mount after discredited rape story
RICHMOND, Va. (Reuters) – The costs to the University of Virginia after a discredited report by Rolling Stone magazine of a fraternity gang rape are mounting, with lawyers’ contracts totaling more than $500,000, a newspaper reported on Sunday.
Greg Plitt, fitness model and TV actor, killed by train
(Reuters) – Fitness model and television actor Greg Plitt was struck and killed by a commuter train in Burbank, California, on Saturday while filming on the tracks, police said on Sunday.
