St. Louis groups donating funds to Ferguson schools, shops
(Reuters) – A group of St. Louis corporate executives and a consortium of businesses and civic groups said on Friday they were donating $85,000 to schools and small businesses in Ferguson, Missouri, to help the town recover after weeks of protests over…
N.J. man who left pig mask on stabbed ex-wife gets 50 years
MORRISTOWN N.J. (Reuters) – A New Jersey man who stabbed his ex-wife 84 times before placing a rubber pig mask over her face was sentenced on Friday to 50 years in prison for her murder.
South Carolina father, jailed in kids’ deaths, in ‘mental disarray’: lawyer
(Reuters) – A father who is accused of killing his five children in South Carolina and dumping their bodies in rural Alabama is scared and remorseful, and his family fears he suffers from an untreated mental illness, an attorney said on Friday.
Los Angeles issues ‘heat alert’ as temperatures soar
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Los Angeles health officials on Friday issued a special “heat alert” for this weekend, urging residents to take special precautions with temperatures expected to soar into triple digits across the region.
Gun-toting Colorado woman threatens boy over clarinet practice
DENVER (Reuters) – Sheriff’s deputies in Colorado arrested a 60-year-old woman who pointed a rifle at her neighbor’s 11-year-old son as he played his clarinet in the backyard, authorities said on Friday.
Washington state company recalls sausages because they contain milk
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Interbay Food Co LLC is recalling about 4,820 pounds of pork sausage because they contained milk, an allergen that was not on the products’ label, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said on Friday.
Mississippi candidate draws long straw, wins tied election
(Reuters) – The election for alderman in a southern Mississippi city that ended in a tie was settled on amicable terms by drawing straws out of a hat, city officials said Friday.
First freeze causes little damage to U.S. Northern Plains crops
CHICAGO (Reuters) – The U.S. northern Plains and far western Midwest crop regions saw their first freeze of the season but the cold temperatures were only in pockets of the belt, limiting damage to immature corn and soybeans, agricultural meteorologist…
Venezuela’s Maduro vows legal action against Harvard professor
CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has called for legal action against a former government official who now teaches at Harvard University and wrote an opinion piece that contributed to a fall in the nation’s bond prices earlier thi…
Woman arrested after three dead babies found in filthy Massachusetts home
(Reuters) – Police have arrested a woman after the bodies of three infants were found amid the squalor and vermin of a condemned southern Massachusetts home from which state officials previously rescued four children, officials and media said on Thursd…
