Police defend actions following California college town killings
SANTA BARBARA, California (Reuters) – Police in the California community where a man killed six college students said on Monday they had no grounds to search the 22-year-old suspect’s home when they met with him in April over a report that he had poste…
U.S. Memorial Day observances reflect story of abused Union orphans
GETTYSBURG, Pennsylvania (Reuters) – School children scattered flowers on war veterans’ graves at Soldier’s National Cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, on Monday in a 147-year-old Memorial Day tradition started by orphans of dead Union soldiers.
Search under way for three men missing after Colorado mudslide
DENVER (Reuters) – Search and rescue crews were looking for three men on Monday who have been missing since a four-mile-long mudslide inundated a remote area near the Grand Mesa National Forest in western Colorado the day before.
Father blames government ‘idiots’ as California town mourns killings
SANTA BARBARA, California (Reuters) – With a California town grieving the deaths of six college students killed by a mentally ill man, one victim’s father on Monday blamed the killings on politicians who failed to tighten gun laws after a mass school s…
With nod to veterans’ scandal, Obama pays Memorial Day tribute
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama paid tribute on Monday to fallen U.S. military men and women during a Memorial Day ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery that highlighted a veterans’ care scandal that has engulfed his presidency in recen…
Alaska wildfire burns 250 square miles, 1,000 buildings evacuated
(Reuters) – A spreading Alaskan wildfire has forced the evacuation of about 1,000 buildings but firefighters have gained ground by containing about 30 percent of the wind-driven blaze, a U.S. Forest Service spokesman said on Monday.
American doctor shot dead in Pakistan in suspected sectarian attack
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – A volunteer American cardiologist was shot dead in Pakistan on Monday, a member of his minority Ahmadi community said, the latest attack on a group which says it is Muslim but whose religion is rejected by the state.
Top CIA officer in Afghanistan mistakenly named by White House: report
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The White House inadvertently included the name of the top CIA official in Afghanistan on a list of participants in a military briefing with President Barack Obama that was distributed to reporters on Sunday, the Washington Post …
California gunman, in manifesto, said police nearly thwarted plot
SANTA BARBARA, California (Reuters) – A 22-year-old man who killed six people before taking his own life in a rampage through a California college town said in a chilling manifesto that police who knocked on his door last month to check on his welfare …
Aging veterans build online honor roll of fallen comrades
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Air Force veteran Don Skinner, 83, wakes at dawn’s early light, downs a cholesterol pill, blood thinner and some instant coffee then boots up his computer to spend eight hours each day telling war stories of the fallen who can’t sp…
