Los Angeles men accused of running ‘pay-to-stay’ student visa scheme
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Three Los Angeles-area men who prosecutors say ran a “pay-to-stay” scheme in which hundreds of foreign nationals paid to use their schools as cover for U.S. student visas were arrested on Wednesday on a federal grand jury indict…
Underground bunker in Washington state linked to arrested fugitive: FBI
SEATTLE (Reuters) – Authorities in Washington state have discovered an underground bunker they believe was used by a convicted bank robber who fled police custody in 2009 and evaded arrest until last year, officials said on Wednesday.
Colonial Williamsburg may help guard Iraq relics imperiled by ISIS
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Colonial Williamsburg, the living museum devoted to preserving early American history, has offered to help Iraqi cultural experts safely store relics threatened with destruction by Islamic State militants, a spokesman said on Wed…
Search continues in military copter crash off Florida that left 11 presumed dead
(Reuters) – Seven Marines and four soldiers were presumed dead after an Army Black Hawk helicopter crashed on a nighttime training mission off Florida’s Gulf coast, where U.S. military officials continued a search-and-rescue operation on Wednesday afte…
Demonstrators protest police shooting in Madison, Wisconsin
MADISON, Wis. (Reuters) – About 1,500 people, some banging plastic pails or blowing whistles, marched on Wednesday afternoon to the Wisconsin corrections department in Madison to protest the fatal police shooting last week of an unarmed biracial young …
Boston bombing jury hears ‘officer down’ police radio call
BOSTON (Reuters) – A Massachusetts Institute of Technology police officer who found a colleague in his squad car covered in blood three nights after the Boston Marathon bombing frantically repeated two words into his radio “officer down, officer down.”…
U.S. Army: $500 million spent on empty buildings as troops cut
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Army is spending half a billion dollars a year to maintain empty or unused facilities, even as it faces budget cuts that could force it to slash 60,000 more troops, top Army officials told lawmakers on Wednesday.
New Hampshire lawmakers vote for bill decriminalizing marijuana
(Reuters) – State representatives in New Hampshire on Wednesday voted overwhelmingly for a bill that would decriminalize the possession of small amounts of marijuana, although the measure is likely to face resistance from the senate and the governor.
Childcare center instructors in California pricked kids with pins, suit says
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Parents who say their toddler children had thumb tacks pricked into their legs as a form a discipline at a California daycare center have sued the facility’s former operators over abuse they said was perpetrated by two teachers….
Fugitive who fatally shot deputy U.S. marshal in Louisiana dies
NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) – A fugitive who authorities say shot and killed a deputy U.S. marshal during a gun battle at a Louisiana motel died of his wounds early on Wednesday, the local coroner’s office said.
