Pennsylvania inmate Mumia Abu-Jamal sues over state speech law
PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) – Mumia Abu-Jamal, serving life in prison for the murder of a Philadelphia police officer, and supporters filed a federal lawsuit on Monday challenging a state law enacted after a college graduation speech the activist inmate gav…
Milwaukee man sentenced for stealing $5 million Stradivarius violin
MILWAUKEE (Reuters) – A Milwaukee man was sentenced to seven years in prison on Monday for stealing a 300-year-old Stradivarius violin from a concert musician after a performance, court records showed.
Early snow falls on northern U.S., cold sweeping south
(Reuters) – An Arctic blast began to dump heavy snows in parts of the northern Rockies and Plains and the Great Lakes regions on Monday as temperatures are expected to plummet throughout the United States, according to meteorologists.
Food costs eating into consumers’ saving at the pump as holidays near
(Reuters) – Martha Franco says she hadn’t really noticed the sharp drop in gasoline prices, even though the mother of three is always shuttling the kids around in her SUV. She has been paying closer attention to the soaring cost of meat instead.
Food costs eating into consumers’ saving at the pump as holidays near
(Reuters) – Martha Franco says she hadn’t really noticed the sharp drop in gasoline prices, even though the mother of three is always shuttling the kids around in her SUV. She has been paying closer attention to the soaring cost of meat instead.
Two Americans freed by North Korea return to U.S. soil
TACOMA Washington (Reuters) – Two Americans freed from secretive North Korea stepped off a plane into the welcoming arms of family on Saturday after the surprise involvement of the top-ranking U.S. intelligence official who traveled to Pyongyang to bri…
Plane crash kills nine, including church leader, on Grand Bahama
NASSAU Bahamas (Reuters) – A private jet struck a construction crane on approach to Grand Bahama International Airport on Sunday and crashed, killing all nine people aboard, including the leader of the Bahamas Faith Ministries, police and civil aviatio…
Former long-time U.S. congressman Phil Crane dies at 84
(Reuters) – Phil Crane, 84, who served 35 years in the U.S. House of Representatives representing parts of the Chicago area, has died, his family said in an obituary it released on Sunday.
Long-awaited transit hub opening in lower Manhattan
(Reuters) – New York raised the curtain on its new $1.4 billion transit station in lower Manhattan on Sunday, a long-awaited connection between the World Trade Center site and the rest of the city more than 13 years after terrorist attacks ravaged the …
Coldest air of the season set to blast 42 U.S. states: forecasters
(Reuters) – The coldest air of the season is set to reach into some 42 states this week as an Arctic blast drops temperatures from the Canadian border down to the Gulf of Mexico, forecasters said.
