Reward offered after Maryland postal worker’s fatal shooting
(Reuters) – A U.S. Postal Service worker was shot and killed while delivering mail about 10 miles outside Washington, authorities said on Sunday.
Four killed, one wounded in shooting at Tulsa, Oklahoma, drug house
(Reuters) – Four people were killed and one person was wounded in a shooting at a reputed drug house in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where methamphetamine has been dealt and used, police said on Sunday.
The curious and the skeptical mark murder anniversary at Oswald grave
FORT WORTH, Texas (Reuters) – On a frigid, rainy Texas Sunday, a small but steady trickle of curious visitors made their way to the grave of Kennedy assassin Lee Harvey Oswald on the 50th anniversary of his murder.
Long-missing man taken to Mexico as toddler reunited with U.S. mother
SAN DIEGO (Reuters) – A Chicago-born man, who went missing three decades ago as a toddler after his father took him to Mexico, has been reunited with his U.S. mother in California after a harrowing trek back to the United States.
Harvard leads the way as 32 American Rhodes scholars announced
(Reuters) – Thirty-two Americans have been selected to head to Britain’s Oxford University next year as Rhodes scholars, joining a prestigious list of past recipients of one of the most coveted awards in academia.
Long-missing man taken to Mexico as toddler reunited with U.S. mother
SAN DIEGO (Reuters) – A Chicago-born man, who went missing three decades ago as a toddler after his father took him to Mexico, has been reunited with his U.S. mother in California after a harrowing trek back to the United States.
Freezing weather spreads as storm heads toward East Coast
(Reuters) – Snow continued to fall in the U.S. Southwest on Sunday in a storm system that may snarl Thanksgiving travel as it heads east, while biting Arctic winds plunged much of the East Coast to sub-freezing temperatures, the National Weather Servic…
Analysis: U.S. air pollution authority faces Supreme Court tests
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. government’s authority to regulate air pollution nationwide, often against the wishes of Republican-leaning states, could face new curbs when the Supreme Court takes on two high-stakes cases in coming months.
Former press secretary wants $1.5 million from San Diego ex-mayor
SAN DIEGO (Reuters) – The one-time communications director for now-disgraced former San Diego Mayor Bob Filner wants nearly $1.5 million in damages for being subjected to the offensive behavior that led to his resignation.
Former Iran hostages: amid rapprochement they still want apologies
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Despite humiliation, solitary confinement and having a gun held to his head during the U.S. Embassy crisis in Iran three decades ago, former hostage Bruce Laingen still favors diplomacy with Tehran.