SWAT team arrests martial arts fighter Silva after threats
MIAMI (Reuters) – Ultimate Fighting Championship veteran Thiago Silva was arrested after barricading himself in his south Florida townhouse following threats to kill his estranged wife and others at a local martial arts gym, police said on Friday.
Former U.S. analyst pleads guilty in leak to reporter
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A former U.S. State Department analyst pleaded guilty on Friday to sharing secret information about North Korea with a reporter for Fox News, becoming the latest government employee convicted in a campaign against unapproved leak…
U.S. hiring struggles to rebound from winter chill
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. job creation slowed sharply over the past two months, turning in the weakest performance in three years and raising the prospect that the economy may be losing momentum.
Man tries to jump fence at White House, sparking lockdown
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A man with two suspicious bags attempted to climb a White House fence on Friday before being apprehended, leading to a security lockdown of the White House grounds.
Verdict reached in trial on alleged Chicago NATO summit attack plot
CHICAGO (Reuters) – A Chicago jury has reached a verdict in the trial of three men who face terrorism charges for allegedly plotting to attack high-profile targets during a 2012 NATO summit, the Cook County Sheriff’s Office said on Friday.
Likely killer of missing Florida coed identified 25 years later
ORLANDO, Florida (Reuters) – Twenty-five years after a University of Florida co-ed vanished and was presumed dead, detectives have identified her likely murderer as a deceased serial killer who jotted down the date of her disappearance in papers he lef…
Retired Florida cop says he shot fellow moviegoer out of fear
DADE CITY, Florida (Reuters) – A retired Florida police captain said he feared for his life when he shot and killed a man after an argument about texting in a movie theater, according to an interview played at a court hearing on Friday to determine whe…
Four dead in capsized vessel found off Florida coast
MIAMI (Reuters) – Four people are dead after a small boat carrying suspected migrants was found capsized and adrift midday Thursday off the east coast of Florida, a U.S. Coast Guard official on Friday .
Michigan to probe how convicted killer escaped prison
(Reuters) – Michigan’s attorney general on Friday launched an investigation into how a convicted murderer escaped from a state prison and kidnapped a woman whom he forced to drive to Indiana, Governor Rick Snyder said.
Missing Wisconsin baby found alive, doing well -police
(Reuters) – A 6-day-old baby reported missing from his bassinet in southern Wisconsin was found alive and well in a tote bag at the side of a frozen Iowa highway nearly 200 miles away, police said on Friday.
