Somali expats fear bank curbs on sending money home
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Each month, 42-year-old Abdirizak Alibos shows up at a money transfer business in the heart of Minneapolis to send $500 to his three children in war-torn Somalia.
Protesters fly blimp over NSA data center in Utah
SALT LAKE CITY (Reuters) – Three activist groups flew a blimp emblazoned with the words “Illegal Spying Below” over the National Security Agency’s data center in Utah on Friday in protest against the federal government’s mass surveillance programs.
Wrong Miss Florida crowned in voting mix-up
TAMPA Fla. (Reuters) – Just a week after her coronation, the winner of the 2014 Miss Florida pageant was dethroned on Friday when organizers said they had crowned the wrong woman after a vote-count error.
U.S. soy supply seen at 37-year low, plantings hit record
CHICAGO (Reuters) – Relentless demand from exporters and processors likely thinned U.S. soybean stocks by June 1 to the lowest since the 1970s, but farmers have responded by planting their largest-ever soy crop this season, analysts expect government d…
Bail set for Wisconsin ex-cop charged with hiding two corpses
ELKHORN Wisc. (Reuters) – A Wisconsin judge set bail at $1 million on Friday for a former police officer suspected of stashing the bodies of two women in suitcases and dumping them along the road.
N.Y. lawmaker pleads guilty to immigration, bankruptcy fraud
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A New York state assemblywoman pleaded guilty on Friday in federal court to entering into a sham marriage to secure U.S. citizenship and lying about her assets when filing for bankruptcy.
California bee attack sends 90-year-old woman, neighbors to hospital
(Reuters) – A 90-year-old California woman, her dog and three neighbors were sent to hospital after being attacked by a swarm of bees whose hive the woman inadvertently sprayed with water as she tended her yard, police said.
U.S. Marines resume F-35B flights; F-35A engine parts found after fire
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Marine Corps on Friday resumed flights of its Lockheed Martin Corp LMT.N F-35B jets that were suspended following a fire on an Air Force F-35A and prepared for the jet’s global debut in Britain next month after the disco…
Texas couple say they locked up son out of fear he is rapist
DALLAS (Reuters) – A Texas couple accused of locking up their son in an apartment garage for at least four years did so because they feared he was a rapist who put his family and community in danger, their lawyer told a bail hearing on Friday.
U.S. says will no longer make, buy anti-personnel landmines
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States said on Friday it would no longer make or buy anti-personnel landmines and that it would strive to eventually join the global treaty banning the weapons, but it stopped short of agreeing to destroy its stockpile…
