Philadelphia schools to open on schedule despite shortfall
PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) – Philadelphia’s cash-strapped public schools will open on schedule in three weeks after $32 million of budget cuts, the school district’s superintendent said on Friday, easing fears of closures or a late start to the school year to save money.
Sheriff and son accused of pistol-whipping New Mexico motorist
ALBUQUERQUE N.M. (Reuters) – FBI agents arrested a New Mexico sheriff and his son on Friday after the lawman allegedly pistol-whipped a motorist following a high-speed car chase, officials said.
Fire erupts under New Jersey’s Pulaski Skyway during rebuilding
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Work on a project to rebuild New Jersey’s crumbling Pulaski Skyway ground to a halt on Friday afternoon when a fire erupted along the supporting base of the elevated roadway that connects Jersey City and Newark, a state transportat…
Child’s play takes a turn at new Texas playground for elderly
DALLAS (Reuters) – The label is “playground,” the apparatus is bright and shiny, but those using the well-cushioned space in east Texas are elderly people trying to loosen stiff joints at a park designed just for them.
Chinese national charged with hacking U.S. defense contractors
(Reuters) – A Chinese businessman has been indicted in California on charges he hacked the computer systems of Boeing Co and other U.S. defense contractors and stole confidential plans for military aircraft, federal prosecutors said on Friday.
U.S. court revives challenge to New York City circumcision law
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A federal appeals court on Friday revived an effort to block a New York City regulation that requires people who perform a Jewish circumcision ritual on infants that involves oral suction to first obtain parental consent.
After crisis-filled start, Obama’s vacation pace slows for a day
OAK BLUFFS Mass. (Reuters) – Nearly a week after arriving on the island of Martha’s Vineyard in Massachusetts, U.S. President Barack Obama appeared to take his first full day off since the start of his summer retreat.
End of tax credit in North Carolina could send filmmakers packing
RALEIGH N.C. (Reuters) – The looming end of tax breaks that helped lure major film and television productions such as the Hunger Games and Sleepy Hollow to North Carolina has supporters fearing Hollywood will take its bright lights to states with more …
San Jose police fatally shoot woman, 19, holding power drill
(Reuters) – A 19-year-old woman brandishing a power drill was shot dead by a police officer in San Jose on Thursday, police said.
Measles outbreak in Ohio appears to be ending: health officials
CLEVELAND (Reuters) – A massive measles outbreak in Ohio that was behind the largest outbreak of the disease in the United States in two decades appears to be coming to an end, with no new confirmed cases in the state in nearly a month, state officials…
