Hundreds of police turn backs on NYC mayor at slain officer’s funeral
NEW YORK (Reuters) – New York City police turned out in their thousands on Sunday for the funeral of the second of two officers murdered last month, but in a sign of persistent tensions with Mayor Bill de Blasio, hundreds turned their backs when he del…
Pennsylvania college student’s death ruled accidental drowning
(Reuters) – The death of Shane Montgomery, a college student whose body was found Saturday in the Schuylkill River in Philadelphia after five weeks of searching, has been ruled accidental, a newspaper reported on Sunday.
Trial to begin in murder of New York child missing for decades
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A former deli worker goes on trial on Monday for the murder of 6-year-old Etan Patz, whose disappearance more than three decades ago while walking to a school bus stop galvanized the nation’s attention to the issue of missing child…
Girl, 7, ‘remarkable’ in finding help after fatal Kentucky plane crash
(Reuters) – Authorities on Sunday praised a seven-year-old girl who ventured through dark woods for help after surviving a plane crash that killed her parents, a sister and a cousin on Friday in rural western Kentucky.
Oklahoma mother kills two sons, then herself, police say
(Reuters) – A mother in northeastern Oklahoma shot and killed her two grown sons while they slept, then killed herself, law enforcement officials said Sunday.
Jury selection begins in trial of accused Boston Marathon bomber
BOSTON (Reuters) – Jury selection is set to begin on Monday in the trial of the man accused of carrying out the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing that killed three people and wounded more than 260 others in the largest mass-casualty attack on U.S. soil sinc…
Patient possibly exposed to Ebola due at Nebraska hospital for observation
(Reuters) – A U.S. health care worker who was possibly exposed to the Ebola virus in Sierra Leone was expected to arrive for observation on Sunday at a Nebraska facility that has treated three Ebola cases, hospital officials said.
Weekend snow in Midwest, east U.S. to precede bitter cold snap
CHICAGO (Reuters) – Stormy winter weather will spread snow, ice, rain and travel problems across the Midwest and eastern U.S. over the weekend, leading into a brutal cold snap for the work week, meteorologists said.
FBI workers with foreign ties face unfair security checks: NY Times
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Hundreds of employees with foreign ties working for the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation are subjected to what they say are unfair aggressive background checks that have forced some to cut contact with family members abroad, …
Body of missing Philadelphia college student pulled from river
HARRISBURG, Pa. (Reuters) – The body of a Philadelphia college student who went missing nearly six weeks ago was recovered Saturday from the Schuylkill River by a volunteer dive team that found the young man’s body a short distance from where he was la…
