Connecticut dropout made bomb threats to hide status from family
MILFORD, Connecticut (Reuters) – A Connecticut college dropout was arrested Sunday night after admitting to calling in two bomb threats to keep her family from learning she had quit Quinnipiac University, police said on Monday.
Kerry calls on U.S. college graduates to face down climate change
BOSTON (Reuters) – The rapidly changing climate poses a threat of sparking greater global conflict, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Monday told the graduating class of Boston College, urging the graduates to play a role in pushing for new energy …
Post-Snowden, the NSA’s future rests on Admiral Rogers’ shoulders
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – As U.S. National Security Agency Director Mike Rogers seeks to repair the damage to the agency caused by leaks about its electronic spying programs, the abuses of government revealed in the wake of the Watergate scandal are very …
Body found in Dallas creek was former assistant police chief
(Reuters) – The Dallas County Medical Examiner on Sunday positively identified a body found a day earlier in a north Dallas creek as that of the Dallas Police Department’s former assistant chief, Gregory Holliday, police said.
California fire crews subdue San Diego-area wildfires
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – California firefighters have largely subdued a swarm of blazes that gutted dozens of homes and forced evacuations of thousands of dwellings in and around San Diego, but Governor Jerry Brown said on Sunday the state was still bra…
Republican chairman: Clinton’s age, health ‘fair game’
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Hillary Clinton’s age and health are valid campaign issues if the 66-year-old Democrat makes another run for president in 2016, the Republican Party leader said on Sunday.
First responders visit New York’s September 11 Memorial Museum
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Walking out of the new National September 11 Memorial Museum in lower Manhattan, John Feal, an advocate for first responders with health problems, said reliving that day was like a punch in the gut. But he might have also found a b…
Blogger accused of exploiting Mississippi senator’s ailing wife
JACKSON, Mississippi (Reuters) – A Mississippi blogger has been jailed on exploitation-related charges for posting photographs of U.S. Senator Thad Cochran’s bedridden wife to the Internet after gaining access to her in a nursing home.
Illinois man tests positive for MERS virus without falling ill
CHICAGO (Reuters) – An Illinois resident tested positive for Middle East Respiratory Syndrome after being in contact with an infected patient, though he did not show signs of illness, U.S. health officials said on Saturday.
Utah top court halts adoptions by second parent of gay couples
SALT LAKE CITY (Reuters) – The Utah Supreme Court has temporarily blocked adoptions by the second parent of legally married gay couples while the justices decide whether the rights can be granted.
