One critical after seven shot in Indianapolis nightclub district
(Reuters) – Seven people were shot and wounded, one critically, early Saturday in an Indianapolis night club district after an argument broke out between two people, police said.
California Highway Patrol probes video of officer punching woman
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – California Highway Patrol is investigating a video showing an officer pummeling a woman alongside a Los Angeles freeway during an arrest that began with an attempt to stop her from walking into traffic, an agency spokeswoman sai…
Boats collide after Miami fireworks displays killing four people
MIAMI (Reuters) – Four people died after boats collided near a marina south of downtown Miami tossing at least a dozen people into the dark waters following Fourth of July fireworks displays, authorities said on Saturday.
Great white shark bites swimmer in Southern California
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – A 7 foot (2 meter) great white shark bit a swimmer off the coast near Manhattan Beach in Southern California on Saturday, leaving the man with moderate injuries, a fire department official said.
Arthur, no longer a hurricane, pelts southeast Canada
(Reuters) – Arthur weakened from hurricane force on Saturday and pelted parts of southeast Canada with heavy rain and strong winds, leaving 250,000 homes and businesses without power, as the storm swept away from New England.
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…
