Puerto Rico braces for public transport shutdown
SAN JUAN (Reuters) – Puerto Rico’s capital braced for a public transportation shutdown Monday, as lawmakers and administration officials held last-ditch talks to approve a crude oil tax hike that could keep San Juan’s metropolitan area buses and commut…
Bomb threat on American Air flight in New York proves false alarm
NEW YORK (Reuters) – An American Airlines airplane that was evacuated at New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport after a bomb threat has been searched and cleared for service, an official said on Sunday.
Ferguson police officer resigned on safety concerns, lawyer says
FERGUSON, Missouri (Reuters) – The white police officer who shot an unarmed black teenager to death this summer in a St. Louis suburb decided to resign from the force because of threats against fellow officers after a grand jury decided not to indict h…
Top Maryland prosecutor in apparent suicide, police say
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – One of Maryland’s top prosecutors, who recently lost a re-election bid after 20 years in office, died Saturday morning of an apparent suicide, police said on Sunday.
FAA drone rules to address aircraft certification and operation
(Reuters) – U.S. aviation officials have seen hundreds of cases in which unmanned aircraft may have posed a danger to planes, and new rules on drones expected this year are designed to prevent collisions and other accidents, the top aviation official s…
Online threats case to show if U.S. justices are down with rap
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A case before the U.S. Supreme Court concerning threats that a Pennsylvania man made toward his estranged wife and others on Facebook could hinge on how the nine justices interpret the sometimes violent imagery in rap lyrics.
Woman shot at Chicago Nordstrom store dies: police
CHICAGO (Reuters) – A Nordstrom worker shot by her former boyfriend in a Chicago store died on Saturday, police sources said.
Hundreds search for missing Ohio State football player
(Reuters) – Hundreds of volunteers have joined the search for an Ohio State University football player who went missing earlier this week and was absent from the team’s game on Saturday, where he was scheduled to be honored alongside other players.
Ferguson demonstrators begin 120-mile march to Missouri state capital
FERGUSON, Missouri (Reuters) – Activists in Ferguson, Missouri, on Saturday began a 120-mile march to the state capital to protest the killing of an unarmed black teen by a white police officer, a case that has rekindled a national debate over U.S. rac…
Surgeon who died of Ebola eulogized at Maryland service
LANDOVER HILLS, Md. (Reuters) – Martin Salia, a surgeon from Sierra Leone who died in a Nebraska hospital earlier this month after contracting Ebola in his homeland, was remembered as a humanitarian and a hero at his funeral in Maryland on Saturday.
