Death toll rises to 36 in Washington state mudslide
(Reuters) – The death toll in a mudslide that buried much of a rural Washington state community last month rose to 36 on Wednesday after medical examiners extricated one more body from the rubble.
One child dead in hit-and-run crash at Orlando, Florida day care
ORLANDO, Florida (Reuters) – One child died and a dozen people were injured in a hit-and-run crash at an Orlando-area day care center on Wednesday afternoon, according to media reports citing hospital officials.
Knife-wielding student wounds 22 in Pennsylvania school
MURRYSVILLE, Pennsylvania (Reuters) – A 16-year-old student wielding two knives went on a stabbing rampage in the hallways of a Pittsburgh-area high school on Wednesday, wounding 22 people before he was tackled by an assistant principal, officials said…
Arizona mother who left baby on top of car gets probation
PHOENIX (Reuters) – A Phoenix mother who left her baby in a safety seat on the roof of her car as she drove home from a friend’s house was sentenced on Wednesday to 16 years of supervised probation after pleading guilty to child abuse and driving under…
Los Angeles should adopt Warren Buffett pension formula: study
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Los Angeles, faced with nearly $10 billion in unfunded pension and retirement liabilities, should adopt the pension formula used by investor Warren Buffett at Berkshire Hathaway Inc to manage the city’s growing retirement costs,…
Brooklyn DA asked to speed up retired detective’s murder case reviews
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Former convicts, inmates’ families and legal activists called on the Brooklyn District Attorney’s office on Wednesday to fast-track its reviews of questionable murder convictions linked to cases involving a retired former homicide …
Data trove shows U.S. doctors reap millions from Medicare
NEW YORK (Reuters) – In 2012, south Florida ophthalmologist Salomon Melgen received $20.8 million in Medicare payments, the highest amount the government health plan for the elderly and disabled paid an individual provider that year, according to a Reu…
Rescued sailboat family returns safely to California aboard Navy ship
SAN DIEGO (Reuters) – A family of four rescued from their sailboat after their infant daughter became seriously ill at sea returned safely to San Diego on Wednesday aboard a U.S. warship that picked them up in the Pacific over the weekend, a Navy spoke…
Miami internal affairs cop arrested on cocaine trafficking charges
MIAMI (Reuters) – An internal affairs officer with the Miami-Dade Police Department has been charged with helping drug smugglers and orchestrating a murder-for-hire plot to have assassins dressed as cops kill their rivals, officials said.
Ex-city officials in California accept plea deal in corruption case
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Five former elected officials from the scandal-plagued California city of Bell pleaded no contest on Wednesday to corruption charges, as cases wind to a close against a number of officials found to have stolen nearly $11 million…
