U.S. job growth surges, unemployment rate near six-year low
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. employment growth jumped in June and the jobless rate closed in on a six-year low, decisive evidence the economy was growing briskly heading into the second half of the year.
Tennessee man wins $153.5 million in state’s largest lottery jackpot
(Reuters) – A self-employed Tennessee man on Thursday claimed a cool $153.5 million cash prize after winning the largest Powerball prize in state history.
Oklahoma police arrest rape suspect left in a coma after car crash
OKLAHOMA CITY (Reuters) – Tulsa Police have arrested a 30-year-old man on suspicion of the sexual assault of eight women after finding the man in a weekend car crash that put him into a coma, police officials said on Thursday.
Suspected Seattle killer may have met victims through gay social app
SEATTLE (Reuters) – A man suspected of killing two gay men in Seattle last month may have targeted his victims using a social networking app geared toward gay men and police are investigating their deaths as a possible hate crime, authorities said on T…
Dead South Carolina teen’s family skeptical of police suicide probe
CHARLESTON S.C. (Reuters) – Civil rights advocates and the family of a 19-year-old former Army recruit fatally shot during a June 20 encounter with a South Carolina police officer are questioning the claim by law enforcement that his death appears to h…
Phones, shoes to face scrutiny as airport security tightened: U.S.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Airlines with direct flights to the United States have been told to tighten screening of mobile phones and shoes in response to intelligence reports of increased threats from al Qaeda-affiliated militant groups, U.S. officials sa…
Georgia man charged with murder of son in hot car to remain jailed
ATLANTA (Reuters) – A suburban Atlanta man who prosecutors said intentionally left his 22-month-old son strapped inside a hot car to die because he wanted to live a child-free life will remain jailed pending his trial, a judge ruled on Thursday.
North Carolina’s outer banks to take full force of hurricane Arthur
HATTERAS ISLAND, N.C, (Reuters) – The first hurricane of the Atlantic season gained strength on Thursday as it spun toward the North Carolina coast on the verge of Category 2 status, forcing thousands of vacationers to scrap their July Fourth holiday p…
Errors, staff absences behind $300 mln New York City gaff: report
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Absent employees, flawed processes, and inadequate systems were among a catalog of problems uncovered at New York City agencies in a new report into why nearly $300 million of city money was erroneously paid out to pensioners earli…
Brooklyn cabbie convicted of plotting Pakistan ‘honor killings’
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A New York cab driver was found guilty on Thursday of conspiring with relatives in Pakistan to commit “honor killings” of family members of a relative he believed helped his daughter escape back to the United States.
