Florida researchers identify body found at notorious reform school
ORLANDO Fla. (Reuters) – George Owen Smith, a 14-year-old caught with an older boy in a stolen car, was sent in 1940 to a reform school in the Florida Panhandle, never to be seen again by his family.
U.S. Army ends questioning of ex-POW Bergdahl on capture by Taliban
SAN ANTONIO (Reuters) – The military completed its questioning of freed U.S. prisoner of war Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl on Thursday and a U.S. Army general must now recommend whether he should face charges over the circumstances that led to his capture by …
Child’s body found in search for missing Washington state girl
(Reuters) – Searchers looking for a 6-year-old girl last seen in her bedroom on Saturday evening and reported missing when she failed to turn up for dinner the following day have found a child’s body near the family’s Washington state mobile home park,…
Hundreds evacuated from path of fast-growing Oregon wildfire
PORTLAND Ore. (Reuters) – A wind-whipped Oregon brush fire forced the evacuation of 600 people and shut a highway by Thursday as firefighters struggled against steady winds to tame the growing blaze and tamp down others across the U.S. Pacific Northwes…
Massive red tide bloom washing off Florida’s Gulf of Mexico coast
TAMPA Fla. (Reuters) – The largest red tide bloom seen in Florida in nearly a decade has killed thousands of fish in the Gulf of Mexico and may pose a greater health threat if it washes ashore as expected in the next two weeks, researchers said on Thur…
New Mexico truck explosion forces evacuation of Navajo community
ALBUQUERQUE N.M. (Reuters) – A semi-tractor trailer carrying hazardous materials crashed and exploded on a New Mexico highway on Thursday, officials said, forcing authorities to evacuate temporarily hundreds of people from a nearby Navajo Nation reserv…
NYC school workers charged with abusing Korean exchange-students
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The wife of a private school owner and an employee were accused of withholding food and bathroom privileges from underage foreign-exchange students from Korea to discipline them, prosecutors said on Thursday.
University’s plan to limit ‘Ole Miss’ nickname draws rebuke
JACKSON Miss. (Reuters) – The University of Mississippi’s plan to further move past its Confederate ties by renaming campus streets and easing use of the “Ole Miss” nickname has angered some critics, who accuse the school of a wholesale erasure of the …
Head of Chicago gang faction, 34 others arrested for drugs: officials
CHICAGO (Reuters) – The head of a Chicago street gang faction and 34 others were arrested and charged on Thursday with taking part in a high-volume drug business that sold heroin and crack cocaine near a major highway, prosecutors said.
Connecticut teen killed by boat propeller in tubing accident
GREENWICH Conn. (Reuters) – Police on Thursday identified a 16-year-old girl who died after being struck by the propeller of a boat that had been pulling her in a tube in Long Island Sound off Connecticut on Wednesday.
