Three die of meningitis outbreak in Los Angeles area
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Three men in their 20s have died from a meningitis outbreak in the gay community in the Los Angeles area this year, a public health spokesman said on Thursday, a day after officials called on HIV-positive gay men in the region t…
Geologist raised idea of removing homes from U.S. landslide area
DARRINGTON, Washington (Reuters) – A contractor who studied the risks to a rural neighborhood in Washington state wiped out by a mudslide last month made recommendations more than a decade ago that included possible relocation of homes elsewhere.
U.S. lawmakers urge revamp of Army vehicle competition
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A group of 10 U.S. lawmakers on Thursday urged Pentagon acquisition chief Frank Kendall to revamp the U.S. Army’s $5 billion competition for a new armored vehicle to allow both tracked and wheeled vehicles to compete.
Funding gap threatens retirement for California teachers
SACRAMENTO, California (Reuters) – The pension fund for public school teachers in California faces a long-term shortfall of $74 billion, threatening its ability to pay for the retirement of nearly 1 million teachers and administrators in the nation’s m…
Funding gap threatens retirement for California teachers
SACRAMENTO, California (Reuters) – The pension fund for public school teachers in California faces a long-term shortfall of $74 billion, threatening its ability to pay for the retirement of nearly 1 million teachers and administrators in the nation’s m…
Judge grills Arizona sheriff’s aide in racial profiling case
PHOENIX (Reuters) – A federal judge on Thursday grilled an aide to Arizona sheriff Joe Arpaio for misleading local residents about a ruling that found deputies racially profiled Latino drivers.
Daughter of slain Iraqi-American tells of hearing murder
SAN DIEGO (Reuters) – The daughter of an Iraqi-American man charged with killing his wife in what was first investigated as a hate crime, on Thursday tearfully described hearing her mother’s murder from her upstairs bedroom and finding her dying on the…
Skydiver dies during record group-jump try in Arizona
PHOENIX (Reuters) – A German skydiver who was among 222 people trying to set a world record with a group-formation jump was killed on Thursday in the Arizona desert when her main parachute malfunctioned, police and a spokeswoman for the skydiving facil…
Senate panel votes to declassify report on CIA interrogations
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee voted on Thursday to declassify its long-awaited report on the CIA’s use of brutal interrogation methods that critics say amount to torture.
Texas executes man convicted of killing teenage girl
(Reuters) – Texas on Thursday executed a suspected serial killer convicted of stabbing a teenage girl to death, a day after a federal appeals court rejected his challenge over the drugs to be used in his lethal injection.
