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…
Three shot dead at South Carolina oceanfront hotel
(Reuters) – Three people were killed and a fourth wounded in a shooting at a oceanfront hotel in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, one of the most popular tourist destinations in the U.S. Southeast, police said on Sunday.
