U.S. cruise ship towed to port after getting stuck in Hudson River
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A cruise ship returning to New York from the Caribbean with 4,500 passengers on board had to be towed into port on Sunday after getting stuck in the Hudson River, the U.S. Coast Guard said.
Regret, relief draw former inmates to Pennsylvania prison reunion
PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) – William Harrison knows the Eastern State Penitentiary all too well, having spent years locked up in the imposing fortress that today is a popular tourist attraction in Philadelphia.
Three students expelled for harassment at California college: report
(Reuters) – Three students charged in the alleged hate-related harassment of an African-American roommate at San Jose State University have been expelled and the suspension of a fourth student has been extended, a newspaper reported on Saturday.
U-2 spy plane caused widespread shutdown of U.S. flights: report
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – A U-2 spy plane caused a computer glitch at a California air traffic control center that led officials to halt takeoffs on Wednesday at several airports in the Southwestern United States and ground planes bound for the region fr…
Boy who survived flight in wheel well ‘no longer in Hawaii’
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A 15-year-old Somali boy who survived a nearly six-hour trip from California to Hawaii stowed away in the wheel well of an airplane has left protective custody in Hawaii, officials said on Saturday.
Indiana hospital caring for MERS patient still bustling
MUNSTER, Indiana (Reuters) – Along a stretch of rust-belt suburbia in Indiana, the Community Hospital in Munster now claims the dubious distinction of being the first U.S. facility to admit a patient with the deadly Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (ME…
Condoleezza Rice pulls out of Rutgers speech after protests
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Former U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice pulled out of delivering the commencement speech at Rutgers University in New Jersey on Saturday, following a months-long protest by students and faculty over her role in the Iraq war…
Obama to tour damaged areas of tornado-ravaged Arkansas
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama will travel to central Arkansas on Wednesday to tour communities that were hit by deadly tornadoes earlier this week, Arkansas Senator Mark Pryor said on Saturday.
Honduras to extradite drug trafficker wanted by U.S.
TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) – Honduras said it will extradite to the United States a drug trafficker who worked for Mexico’s powerful Sinaloa Cartel, making him the first such case since the country changed the law to allow the process two years ago.
Arizona high school student accused of up to 18 sex attacks
PHOENIX (Reuters) – An Arizona high school student has been arrested on suspicion of sexually assaulting up to 18 girls and threatening to kill victims and witnesses, the Pinal County Sheriff’s office said.
