Six hurt in shooting and stampede at Houston Caribbean festival
(Reuters) – A shooter opened fire into a crowd at a Caribbean festival in Houston in the early hours of Saturday, critically wounding one man and injuring three others, and police said they were looking for the attacker.
Threatening call prompts evacuations, bomb search at Harvard
CAMBRIDGE Mass. (Reuters) – A call from a man claiming to have an assault rifle at Harvard University and to have planted bombs there prompted police on Saturday to evacuate several buildings at the campus and launch a search for explosives, but the ar…
Conjoined Ohio twins, 62, mark a milestone
CLEVELAND (Reuters) – (In Friday story, corrects year of birth for Bunker twins to 1811, instead of 1881, and amends first paragraph to make clear the celebration is not open to the public)
Cash incentive mulled to give endangered Florida panther room to prowl
TAMPA Fla. (Reuters) – The endangered Florida panther, running out of room to prowl as its numbers rebound, may find its best chance at survival is a program to pay distrustful ranchers to protect what remains of its habitat.
Protesters gather, await arrival of undocumented immigrants in California
MURRIETA Calif. (Reuters) – Immigration demonstrations intensified in a southern California town on Friday as protesters filled a desolate road to a U.S. Customs and Border Station to await the arrival of undocumented Central American families for proc…
Hot dogs gobbled, small-town parades cheered as U.S. marks soggy July 4
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Hot-dog eating champs, backyard picnickers and small-town parade lovers pressed on with Fourth of July celebrations on Friday, some featuring less sizzle than usual after Hurricane Arthur dampened many Independence Day plans.
Father of Nicole Brown Simpson dies at age 90
(Reuters) – The father of Nicole Brown Simpson, the slain ex-wife of retired American football star O.J. Simpson, has died, a family spokeswoman said on Friday.
Conjoined Ohio twins, 62, mark a milestone
CLEVELAND (Reuters) – The world’s oldest conjoined twins plan to celebrate surpassing the life span of the original “Siamese Twins” on Saturday with a public celebration in Ohio.
Police identify suspect sought in fatal New Orleans shooting
(Reuters) – Police in New Orleans on Friday identified a suspect in a shooting in the city’s popular French Quarter last weekend in which a woman was killed and nine people were wounded.
Protesters gather, await arrival of undocumented immigrants in California
MURRIETA Calif. (Reuters) – Immigration demonstrations intensified in a southern California town on Friday as protesters filled a desolate road to a U.S. Customs and Border Station to await the arrival of undocumented Central American families for proc…
