Third person dies from South by Southwest crash in Texas capital
AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) – A third person has died as a result of a motorist plowing his car into a crowd of people outside a nightclub last week at the South by Southwest festival in Austin, officials said on Monday.
U.S. TV pitchman Trudeau to be sentenced Monday, faces 10 years
CHICAGO (Reuters) – U.S. TV pitchman Kevin Trudeau, who was convicted last year of criminal contempt for exaggerating the contents of his weight-loss books in infomercials, faces up to 10 years in prison when he is sentenced by a federal judge on Monda…
Winter storm blasts U.S. mid-Atlantic days before spring
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A late winter storm landed a final punch on the U.S. mid-Atlantic states on Monday, dumping more than a foot of snow in some places, shutting schools and federal offices and cancelling flights.
Jailed polygamist leader Jeffs taken to Texas prison hospital
SAN ANTONIO, Texas (Reuters) – Warren Jeffs, the polygamist leader serving a life prison term for sexually assaulting two young girls at his sect’s ranch in Texas, has been taken to a prison hospital, prison officials said on Monday.
Magnitude 4.4 earthquake rocks Los Angeles area
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – A magnitude 4.4 earthquake struck just outside of Los Angeles on Monday, rattling early morning commuters across a wide swath of Southern California but causing no damage or injury.
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.
