U.S. retirees return to reverse mortgages, big banks stay away
(Reuters) – U.S. baby boomers desperate for retirement income are increasingly turning back to a financial product that, after the housing bust, had been left for dead: the reverse mortgage.
Hand grenade at Atlanta bus station prompts brief evacuation
ATLANTA (Reuters) – Police evacuated a Greyhound bus station in downtown Atlanta early on Monday after a hand grenade fell out of a box being shipped to North Carolina, but it was later found to contain no explosives.
U.S. Naval Academy sex assault trial delayed by snow
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The trial of a former Naval Academy football player on charges of sexually assaulting a female midshipman was delayed on Monday because of a snowstorm that shut down the U.S. capital.
A plunge in U.S. preschool obesity? Not so fast, experts say
NEW YORK (Reuters) – If the news last month that the prevalence of obesity among American preschoolers had plunged 43 percent in a decade sounded too good to be true, that’s because it probably was, researchers say.
Inked in memory: Photos showcase Boston bombing tattoos
BEVERLY, Massachusetts (Reuters) – As he sat in a tattoo artist’s chair a few days after the Boston Marathon bombing having a line-drawing of the city’s skyline inked onto his arm, Christopher Padgett looked at the people around him and got an idea.
Guinness pulls out of NY’s St. Patrick’s parade over ban on gays
BOSTON (Reuters) – Irish brewer Guinness said on Sunday that it would not participate in New York City’s St. Patrick’s Day parade this year because gay and lesbian groups had been excluded, costing organizers a key sponsor of the annual event.
U.S. Army general in sex crimes case to plead to lesser charges
WINSTON-SALEM, North Carolina (Reuters) – The United States has agreed to drop charges of sexual assault brought against an Army general in exchange for him pleading guilty to lesser charges including “mistreatment” of his accuser, a junior officer, th…
Crews focus on gas lines in New York building explosion
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Emergency crews clearing debris from the site of two New York City apartment buildings leveled in a gas explosion four days ago said they expected to reach an underground area on Sunday where natural gas lines could reveal what cau…
Founder of Westboro church in Kansas excommunicated, on death bed: son
(Reuters) – The founder of a fundamentalist church known for picketing military funerals and political events with anti-gay signs was excommunicated last year and is near death in a Kansas hospital, his son said on social media on Sunday.
Boston mayor skips St. Patrick’s parade over exclusion of gay group
BOSTON (Reuters) – Boston’s Irish-American mayor skipped the city’s St. Patrick’s Day parade on Sunday after failing to hammer out a deal with organizers to allow a group of gay and lesbian activists to march openly.
