As Ebola hits, New Yorkers maintain wary calm
NEW YORK (Reuters) – News of New York’s first case of Ebola was met with worry and even anger on Friday, but for this city of eight million residents, seasoned by everything from terror attacks to superstorms, there was no sign of panic.
Stolen vehicle plows into Ohio bar, injures 13
CLEVELAND (Reuters) – Thirteen people were injured late Thursday after a high-speed police chase ended with a stolen truck crashing through the front of a bar in a western suburb of Cleveland, police said.
U.S. House panel to meet with safety regulators about Takata air bags next week
WASHINGTON/DETROIT (Reuters) – The U.S. House committee looking into the defective air bags made by Japanese supplier Takata Corp will hold an initial briefing with U.S. safety regulators next week to learn the details of the regional recalls affecting…
U.S. nurse who had Ebola is virus free: health officials
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A Dallas nurse who contracted Ebola is now free of the virus, U.S. health officials said on Friday.
Small airplane and helicopter collide in Maryland, three killed
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Three people were killed and two taken to hospital after a small airplane and a helicopter crashed into each other on Thursday near an airport in Frederick, Maryland, authorities said.
Police in Ferguson committed human rights abuses: Amnesty report
(Reuters) – Police in Ferguson, Missouri, committed human rights abuses as they sought to quell mostly peaceful protests that erupted after an officer killed an unarmed black teenager, an international human rights organization said in a report release…
Utah Supreme Court clears way for adoption by partners of same-sex spouses
(Reuters) – The Utah Supreme Court on Thursday lifted an order that had blocked spouses in same-sex marriages from adopting their partners’ children, state officials said.
U.S. National Park graffiti vandal spotted through social media
SEATTLE (Reuters) – The National Park Service said on Thursday it was investigating a New York artist as a suspect for graffiti vandalism in parks across the Western United States after she posted at least one picture of herself defacing a protected pa…
Tennessee judge reprimanded for aiding release in assault case
NASHVILLE Tenn. (Reuters) – A Tennessee judicial conduct board has reprimanded a judge who intervened to gain a prominent developer accused of assaulting a girlfriend an early release from a cooling-off period in jail, the state courts office said on T…
New York police officer critically wounded in hatchet attack
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A hatchet-wielding attacker charged a group of New York City police officers posing for a photograph on Thursday, wounded two, one critically, before the assailant was shot dead, police said.
