FBI agents join search for missing Alaska family
AU Alaska (Reuters) – FBI agents have joined the search for an Alaska family of four, including two small children, whose disappearance almost two weeks ago is being described as “mysterious,” authorities said on Monday.
Prominent N.Y. church picks woman as pastor for first time in its history
NEW YORK (Reuters) – New York’s Riverside Church, one of the best-known liberal Protestant congregations in the United States, selected a woman to lead it for the first time in its 84-year history, the church said on Monday.
Bonus payout for WTC site workers premature: court
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A judge acted prematurely in awarding a $55 million bonus payment to thousands of rescue and cleanup workers at the World Trade Center site who settled lawsuits against New York City over damage to their health, a federal appeals c…
Student who subdued Seattle gunman says hero label hard to accept
(Reuters) – The student who subdued a gunman accused of killing one person and wounding two others at a private Christian college in Seattle said on Monday he found it difficult to accept being hailed as a hero.
Utah’s ‘mountain man’ survivalist sentenced to prison after guilty pleas
SALT LAKE CITY (Reuters) – A Utah survivalist known as the “mountain man” who evaded police for nearly six years while looting remote cabins for weapons and supplies was sentenced on Monday to more than 10 years in prison after pleading guilty to multi…
Hundreds more migrant children shipped to Arizona from Texas
PHOENIX (Reuters) – Hundreds of children who crossed the U.S. border illegally were transported to Arizona from Texas over the weekend as border agents face a surge of unauthorized Central American migrants entering the country, authorities said on Mon…
American detained in North Korea was on vacation tour, lawyer says
AUSTIN Texas (Reuters) – The U.S. citizen detained in North Korea, Jeffrey Fowle, 56, is a father of three with a passion for adventure who was in the country as part of a vacation tour, his lawyer said on Monday.
Citi loses bid to stop L.A. mortgage discrimination suit
(Reuters) – A lawsuit by the City of Los Angeles accusing Citigroup Inc of mortgage discrimination can go forward, a federal judge ruled on Monday, turning down the bank’s motion to dismiss the case stemming from last decade’s real estate boom.
Killers of Las Vegas cops harbored anti-government ideology
LAS VEGAS (Reuters) – A married couple who shot dead two Las Vegas police officers in a weekend pizza parlor ambush harbored anti-government and white supremacist ideology and threw a swastika on the body of one of the officers they gunned down, police…
Philadelphia Catholic Church clears priest, ends abuse claims review
PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) – The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Philadelphia has cleared a priest accused of sexually abusing minors and let him remain in the clergy as it wrapped up an internal review of 26 priests put on leave after a 2011 grand jury repo…
