Six hurt when US Airways flight from Philadelphia hits turbulence
(Reuters) – Four passengers and two crew members were injured on Sunday when a US Airways jet hit severe turbulence after leaving Philadelphia International airport, the airline said.
Oklahoma wildfire kills one, forces residents to flee
(Reuters) – A wildfire stoked by high winds and temperatures near 100 Fahrenheit (38 Celsius) killed at least one man, destroyed several houses and forced people to flee near the Oklahoma town of Guthrie on Sunday, officials and local media said.
Former Congressman Jim Oberstar of Minnesota dies at age 79
(Reuters) – Jim Oberstar, who represented northeastern Minnesota for 36 years in the U.S. House of Representatives and rose to a key position for transportation and infrastructure, died on Saturday at age 79, his family said.
Death toll lowered to 17 in road accident in southwest Haiti
MIAMI (Reuters) – Authorities in southwest Haiti have revised the death toll from a road accident on Saturday saying that 17 people were killed and another 17 were injured.
Plane crash at California air show kills pilot
SACRAMENTO, California (Reuters) – An airplane crashed during an air show at Travis Air Force Base in California on Sunday, killing its 77-year-old pilot and forcing a shutdown of the show, a spokesman for the base said.
George H.W. Bush honored for courage with 1990 tax hikes
BOSTON (Reuters) – Former U.S. President George H.W. Bush showed courage in breaking his “read my lips: no new taxes” campaign pledge to broker a 1990 budget compromise that may have cost him re-election two years later, the John F. Kennedy Library Fou…
Plane crash prompts shutdown of California air show
SACRAMENTO, California (Reuters) – An airplane crashed during an air show at Travis Air Force Base in California on Sunday, forcing a shutdown of the show, a spokesman for the base said.
Nobel-winning economist Gary Becker dies at 83: university
(Reuters) – Gary Becker, whose work applying the principles of economics to a wide range of human behavior won the Nobel Prize in 1992, has died at age 83, the University of Chicago said on Sunday.
Performers injured in Rhode Island circus apparatus collapse
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Eight acrobats were seriously injured when they tumbled at least 25 feet to the ground after an aerial apparatus collapsed during a circus performance in Rhode Island on Sunday, the circus company’s owners said.
Teen who survived flight in wheel well back in California: report
(Reuters) – A 15-year-old Somali boy who survived a nearly six-hour flight stowed in the wheel well of a Hawaii-bound jet has been returned to California and placed in the custody of social services, the San Jose Mercury News reported.
