Florida men held three years in Mexico on drug charges return to U.S.
MIAMI (Reuters) – Two Florida boaters jailed in Mexico for three years after being arrested with $950,000 in cash returned to the United States on Wednesday, landing in Miami after they were exonerated of money-laundering and drug-trafficking charges, …
Suspended South Carolina speaker to plead guilty to ethics charges: report
CHARLESTON S.C. (Reuters) – Suspended South Carolina House of Representatives Speaker Bobby Harrell is expected to plead guilty to criminal ethics charges related to misuse of campaign money and misconduct in office, a local newspaper reported on Wedne…
Congressman should have been ‘more sensitive’ in suicide remarks: spokesman
JUNEAU (Reuters) – A U.S. congressman should have taken a more “sensitive approach” when talking about teen suicide to a group of Alaska high school students he was addressing after a classmate recently took his own life, a spokesman said on Wednesday….
Man jumps White House fence, causes lockdown
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A man jumped the White House fence on Wednesday and was attacked by Secret Service dogs, a Secret Service spokesman said.
UAW eyes bargaining rights at VW Tennessee plant within a year
DETROIT (Reuters) – The United Auto Workers hopes to be recognized as the exclusive bargaining agent for workers at a Volkswagen AG assembly plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee within a year, the union’s President Dennis Williams said on Wednesday.
Two dead in murder-suicide at Houston hospital: police say
HOUSTON (Reuters) – Two health workers died on Wednesday in an apparent murder-suicide at the out-patient pharmacy of a major Houston hospital, police said.
Six migrants detained for trying to sneak into U.S. in fuel tank
SAN ANTONIO (Reuters) – Six immigrants from Mexico and Central America have been taken into custody on suspicion of trying to sneak into the United States by squeezing into an auxiliary fuel tank that was mounted in the bed of a pickup truck.
Washington state soldier pleads not guilty to murdering wife
SEATTLE (Reuters) – A U.S. soldier accused of shooting his wife to death as she sat working on a computer inside their home in Washington state pleaded not guilty on Wednesday to a charge of first-degree murder.
U.S. tightens Ebola monitoring for West African visitors
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The United States imposed new constraints on Wednesday on people entering the country from three nations at the center of West Africa’s Ebola epidemic, mandating that they report their temperature daily and stay in touch with healt…
Man pleads guilty to killing Montana teacher in cocaine frenzy
(Reuters) – A Colorado man accused of killing a Montana teacher during a cocaine-fueled frenzy pleaded guilty to murder on Wednesday as part of a deal in which prosecutors will dismiss a kidnapping charge in the case, court documents showed.
