Vandals hit playgrounds honoring Connecticut school massacre victims
MYSTIC, Connecticut (Reuters) – A playground honoring a 7-year-old victim of the Sandy Hook School massacre in Connecticut was vandalized by a man who told the girl’s mother in a phone call just days before Mother’s Day that the shootings were a “hoax”…
Hundreds contact FBI in U.S. about overseas pedophile teacher
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Several hundred people have contacted U.S. agents investigating a teacher suspected of molesting boys while teaching at American schools around the world, an FBI spokeswoman said on Wednesday.
Explorer seeks speedy dig for possible Santa Maria wreck
NEW YORK (Reuters) – An underwater explorer who believes he has located the 500-year-old remains of Christopher Columbus’ flagship, the Santa Maria, off the northern coast of Haiti said on Wednesday he hopes to begin excavation as early as next week.
FBI aimed snipers’ rifles at accused Boston bomber’s friends: agent
BOSTON (Reuters) – FBI agents searching for the accused Boston Marathon bomber surrounded an apartment where two of the suspect’s friends were living and trained the laser scopes of sniper rifles on them, a federal agent testified on Wednesday.
Hillary Clinton didn’t suffer brain damage from blood clot: Bill Clinton
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Potential Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton did not suffer brain damage from a 2012 blood clot, her husband said on Wednesday.
Man charged with attempted murder for Maryland TV station crash
ANNAPOLIS, Maryland (Reuters) – A Maryland man who crashed a stolen landscaping truck into a television station lobby has been charged with three counts of second-degree attempted murder, police said on Wednesday.
As U.S. trucks revved up amid train traffic jam, a capacity crisis revealed
NEW YORK (Reuters) – As a polar vortex snarled North America’s railroads and upended freight flows this winter, everyone from agricultural giant Cargill to Dow Chemical rushed to secure the next-best form of hauling goods: trucks.
‘Miracle baby’ survives 11-story fall from Minneapolis apartment
(Reuters) – A 15-month-old boy described by doctors as a “miracle baby” was in critical condition at a Minneapolis hospital on Wednesday after surviving an 11-story fall from the balcony of an apartment building.
Two sick U.S. hospital workers test negative for MERS virus
ORLANDO (Reuters) – Two U.S. hospital workers who fell ill after contact with a patient suffering from Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) have tested negative for the often-deadly virus, a Florida health official said on Wednesday.
Frugal U.S. consumers make it tough for food companies to raise prices
NEW YORK/LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Rebecca Sumrow is one of the customers food and restaurant company executives have in mind when they consider raising prices to offset higher costs as meat and milk soar to record highs.
