Man who wounded deputy at Georgia courthouse dies in shootout
ATLANTA (Reuters) – A man armed with an assault rifle and explosives who drove up to a courthouse in the north Georgia town of Cumming on Friday and shot and wounded a sheriff’s deputy in the leg was killed in a shootout with authorities, officials sai…
10-year-olds among students making bomb threats in Connecticut: officials
MILFORD Conn. (Reuters) – Children as young as 10 years old have been caught making bomb threats to local schools in Bristol, Connecticut, that have cost the city tens of thousands of dollars, authorities said.
N.Y. police charge man in elevator stabbing of two children
NEW YORK (Reuters) – New York police have charged a man in the weekend stabbing of two children, one of them fatally, in the elevator of a Brooklyn housing project, officials said.
Wild mushrooms entice smugglers to fire-ravaged California forest
GROVELAND Calif. (Reuters) – Smugglers in northern California’s fire-ravaged Stanislaus National Forest are sneaking out pricey contraband – not marijuana this time, but a favorite delicacy of foodies: the luscious morel mushroom. 
Gunman kills one, three wounded at Christian college in Seattle
SEATTLE (Reuters) – A man armed with a shotgun opened fire on Thursday at a small Christian college in Seattle, killing one person and wounding two others before he was subdued by a group of students and arrested, Seattle police and hospital officials …
U.S. Air base in Texas shelters wave of immigrant children
LACKLAND AIR FORCE BASE Texas (Reuters) – A half-century-old section of a U.S. Air Force base in Texas has been transformed into a holding and processing center for thousands of children illegally crossing the border from Central and South America with…
Federal agent commits suicide in Pittsburgh Homeland Security office
PITTSBURGH Pa. (Reuters) – A federal agent shot and killed himself inside a U.S. Department of Homeland Security building in Pittsburgh on Thursday afternoon, county officials said.
California residents support soda tax to fight obesity, health study shows
(Reuters) – Fighting obesity by taxing sugary drinks and restricting junk food advertisements aimed at children has support from a wide majority of residents surveyed in a Southern California public health study released on Thursday.
Obama administration revamps federal healthcare website: WSJ
(Reuters) – The Obama administration is revamping the health insurance marketplace HealthCare.gov and removing significant parts from it to ensure that glitches on the site do not return, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing presentations to health…
Florida judge disbarred over ‘personal’ relationship with prosecutor
TALLAHASSEE Fla. (Reuters) – The Florida Supreme Court disbarred a former circuit judge on Thursday for having a “personal and emotional relationship” with a prosecutor that started during a death penalty case he was trying before her.
