Six dead as fire rips through New Jersey home
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Fire ripped through a home in Newark, New Jersey, on Sunday killing six members of a family, officials said.
‘Deep Throat’ garage from U.S. Watergate scandal to be razed
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – One of the most historic U.S. journalism sites will vanish after a Virginia county board voted to demolish the building and parking garage central to the Watergate political scandal of the 1970s.
Biden to meet Central America leaders about child migrant wave
RANCHO MIRAGE Calif. (Reuters) – U.S. Vice President Joe Biden will go to Guatemala on Friday to meet Central American leaders about the influx of unaccompanied minors illegally entering the United States, senior administration officials said on Sunday…
U.S. military appoints general to probe Bergdahl disappearance
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. military has appointed a two-star general to investigate the circumstances under which Bowe Bergdahl, the U.S. soldier recently freed after five years in Taliban captivity, disappeared in eastern Afghanistan in 2009, a U…
Connecticut hoarder killed by floor collapse: police
BOSTON (Reuters) – A 66-year-old Connecticut woman was found dead in the basement of her home after the first floor collapsed under the weight of a waist-deep pile of newspapers, bottles and other household detritus, local police said on Sunday.
California man run over by drunk daughter: police
(Reuters) – A California man who tried to prevent his adult daughter from driving drunk was struck by her car and killed, police said Sunday.
Six dead as fire rips through New Jersey home
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Fire ripped through a home in Newark, New Jersey, on Sunday killing six people, officials said.
California wildfire prompts hundreds of home evacuations
(Reuters) – Hundreds of firefighters on Sunday were battling a wildfire in southern California that prompted the evacuation of about 500 homes, local officials said.
Summer concerts amp up drug screening after ‘Molly’ deaths
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Sniffer dogs, pat-downs and other drug screening measures await concertgoers during this summer music festival season in the wake of 2013 concert deaths linked to the club drug Molly.
JetBlue apologizes after girl, denied toilet, urinates in plane seat
(Reuters) – JetBlue Airways on Saturday apologized to a mother who said her child had to urinate in her airplane seat because a flight attendant would not let her use the restroom while the plane sat on the tarmac at a New York airport.