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.
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…
