Suspects charged in North Carolina theft of $10,000 dinosaur replica
RALEIGH N.C. (Reuters) – A man and woman caught on video swiping a baby dinosaur replica from a North Carolina museum have turned themselves in, and the roughly foot-long model valued at $10,000 was recovered, state officials said on Friday.
Republican gaining on Democrat in Massachusetts governor’s race: poll
BOSTON (Reuters) – A Republican former hospital executive has pulled into a statistical tie with Massachusetts’ Democratic attorney general in the race to be the state’s next governor, according to a Boston Globe poll released on Friday.
Twelve bodies found in Massachusetts storage unit, prosecutors say
BOSTON (Reuters) – An investigation into a former Massachusetts funeral-home operator has turned grisly, with authorities discovering 12 bodies at a storage unit outside Boston leased by the man, Joseph O’Donnell, authorities said.
Lower Manhattan economy taking off but many new jobs are low wage
New York (Reuters) – Lower Manhattan’s economy is set to take-off. New shopping centers, hotels and food courts are opening in the area that looked more like a war zone after the attacks on September 11, 2001.
U.S. judicial agency to vote on releasing federal prisoners early
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – More than 50,000 drug offenders may be released early from federal prison if a U.S. judiciary agency votes on Friday to change the nation’s sentencing guidelines.
U.S. hearing aid sales gain 6 percent in June, led by veterans: data
COPENHAGEN (Reuters) – The U.S. hearing aid market grew 6 percent year-on-year in June, driven by an increase in sales to Veterans Affairs (VA), a government program for military veterans, data from Bernstein Research showed on Friday.
Colorado issues kidnap alert for woman who claimed dying baby vision
DENVER (Reuters) – Officials in Colorado issued a child-abduction alert late on Thursday for a 5-month-old girl they said was kidnapped in Oklahoma by a woman described as claiming to have had a vision of the infant dying within two days.
Jerry Sandusky’s son recounts sexual abuse by his father
HARRISBURG Pa. (Reuters) – An adopted son of convicted child molester Jerry Sandusky recounted to Oprah Winfrey in often graphic detail how the former Penn State University assistant football coach had molested him as a teenager in what became a “bedti…
Police find woman’s severed head in bushes outside New York home
(Reuters) – Police found a woman’s severed head in bushes outside a Long Island home on Thursday in an area where human body parts were discovered scattered last week, authorities said.
Three U.S. states sue 5-Hour Energy drink over advertising
(Reuters) – Oregon, Washington and Vermont sued the makers of 5-Hour Energy on Thursday for allegedly deceptive and misleading advertising, and said similar suits will follow in other states in the coming weeks.
