New Jersey college buys Atlantic City’s closed Showboat casino
PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) – A college in southern New Jersey has announced plans to buy the shuttered Showboat Atlantic City casino resort from Caesars Entertainment Corp and turn the property into a branch campus.
Coast Guard calls off ocean search for California guardsman
(Reuters) – The U.S. Coast Guard has called off a search for an off-duty member of the California Air National Guard who was swept into the ocean while he was fishing near Monterey, officials said on Wednesday.
Prosecutors in Jodi Arias sentencing retrial deny pornography deleted
PHOENIX (Reuters) – Arizona prosecutors on Wednesday denied claims by lawyers for convicted murderer Jodi Arias, who accused the state of deleting thousands of pornographic files from the victim’s computer.
Earthquake hits southern Kansas, shakes buildings in Oklahoma
(Reuters) – A magnitude 4.8 earthquake hit southern Kansas on Wednesday, with reports the temblor was felt in large parts of the state and neighboring Oklahoma to the south.
Slain Ferguson teen’s dad seeks justice at U.N.
GENEVA (Reuters) – The father of black teenager Michael Brown, shot dead by a policeman in Ferguson, Missouri, in August, said on Wednesday he and the boy’s mother had come to the United Nations in Geneva to seek justice for their son.
Utah man charged with snatching 5-year-old girl from bedroom
(Reuters) – A man accused of abducting a sleeping 5-year-old Utah girl from her bed before being quickly apprehended was charged on Wednesday with felony charges of child kidnapping and burglary, authorities said.
Window washers rescued after dangling at NYC’s World Trade Center
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Two window washers trapped on a broken platform outside the 69th floor of New York’s One World Trade Center scrambled to safety through a hole cut in the glass on Wednesday after dangling for two hours alongside the city’s tallest …
Couple weds in Texas hospital at bedside of premature son
AUSTIN Texas (Reuters) – A Texas couple walked down the aisle of a Fort Worth hospital’s neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) to wed to the whir of medical devices and in front of the guest of honor, their premature baby boy wearing a one-piece tuxedo.
Manhattan DA announces $35 mln funding for rape kit backlog
NEW YORK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance, Jr. pledged on Wednesday $35 million in funding to help eliminate the backlog of untested evidence in sexual assault cases, or “rape kits”, in cities across the United …
New York ex-cop acquitted on cannibalism plot gets supervised release
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Four months after a judge overturned his conviction for plotting to kidnap and cannibalize women, a former New York City policeman walked out of a federal courthouse on Wednesday on one-year supervised release for a conviction on a…
