Carnival Cruise ship rescues 41 Cuban migrants in Florida Straits
MIAMI (Reuters) – A Carnival Cruise ship rescued 41 Cuban migrants from a small, overcrowded boat in the Florida Straits, the 90-mile span of water between the southern tip of Florida and Cuba, a U.S. Coast Guard official said on Wednesday.
Oklahoma’s lethal injection protocol unconstitutional: judge
OKLAHOMA CITY (Reuters) – An Oklahoma judge ruled on Wednesday that the state’s execution procedures were unconstitutional because they do not allow inmates proper access to the courts when it comes to the drugs used in lethal injections.
More ships waiting on Houston Channel cleanup: Coast Guard
HOUSTON (Reuters) – More ships were waiting on Wednesday morning to sail through the Houston Ship Channel as the cleanup of a Saturday fuel oil spill in Galveston Bay continued, the U.S. Coast Guard said.
Late blast of wintry weather hits parts of New England
BOWDOINHAM, Maine (Reuters) – Parts of New England were hit with a late blast of wintry weather on Wednesday, the so-called “bombogenesis” storm that brought high winds to much of the region and snow to parts of Maine and Massachusetts’ Cape Cod resort…
Landing at wrong airport can be ‘catastrophic’: regulator
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. National Transportation Safety Board issued a safety alert on Wednesday on how airplane pilots can avoid landing at the wrong airport, after recent incidents when planes landed on much shorter runways than their intended…
Michelle Obama generates Internet comment after Tibetan lunch
CHENGDU, China (Reuters) – U.S. first lady Michelle Obama lunched at a Tibetan restaurant in China’s Sichuan province on Wednesday, prompting murmurs about “political overtones” on the country’s active Internet social networks.
Missouri executes killer of teenage girl
BONNE TERRE, Missouri (Reuters) – Missouri officials executed a man early on Wednesday who was convicted of abducting a teenage girl at the gas station where she worked, then raping and strangling her.
Montana bride seeks to drop guilty plea in husband’s cliff death
(Reuters) – A Montana bride accused of pushing her husband off a cliff to his death at Glacier National Park asked a judge on Tuesday to withdraw a guilty plea she entered as part of a deal with prosecutors to avoid a life sentence, court records show….
At Cold War missile factory, elite rescuers drill for disaster
PERRY, Georgia (Reuters) – On a cloudless, windswept Georgia morning 100 miles south of Atlanta, a rescuer dangled 30 feet in the air, secured by rappelling ropes, wielding a jackhammer, as he drove the drill into a massive concrete slab designed to mi…
Agents protecting Obama abroad sent home for disciplinary reasons
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Three members of the U.S. Secret Service detail that protects President Barack Obama were sent home from Amsterdam for disciplinary reasons, a Secret Service spokesman confirmed on Tuesday.
