U.S. border officials ground fleet of drones after crash at sea
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – U.S. Customs and Border Protection has indefinitely grounded its remaining fleet of nine drones after operators were forced to crash a pilotless aircraft off the Southern California coast because of a mechanical problem, a spoke…
Georgia bill would seek limited access to medical marijuana strain
ATLANTA (Reuters) – Georgia state representative Allen Peake introduced a bill on Tuesday that would legalize a non-psychoactive strain of marijuana strictly limited to patients with severe seizure disorders.
Delaware doctor accused of waterboarding stepdaughter as trial opens
GEORGETOWN, Delaware (Reuters) – A well-known Delaware pediatrician force-fed his 11-year-old stepdaughter, forbade her from using the bathroom and used “waterboarding” to discipline her, a prosecutor said on Tuesday at the opening of the doctor’s tria…
Obama to lay out go-it-alone approach in State of Union speech
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama will lay out his strategy for getting around a divided Congress starting with a wage hike for federal contract workers in a State of the Union speech on Tuesday that reflects scaled-back legislative ambitio…
Teen shot by police at Honolulu high school after brandishing knife
HONOLULU (Reuters) – A 17-year-old boy who brandished a knife at police trying to take him into custody at a Honolulu high school was shot in the wrist by one of the officers on Tuesday, prompting a lockdown on campus, officials said.
Remains of 55 bodies found near former Florida reform school
TALLAHASSEE (Reuters) – Excavations at a makeshift graveyard near a now-closed reform school in the Florida Panhandle have yielded remains of 55 bodies, almost twice the number official records say are there, the University of South Florida announced o…
Indiana vote on constitutional ban on gay marriage faces hurdle
INDIANAPOLIS (Reuters) – The Indiana House on Tuesday approved a proposed state constitutional amendment banning gay marriage, bucking a national trend where legislatures in other states have been making same-sex marriages legal.
Two men in Super Bowl ticket scam face 7 years in prison
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Prosecutors have charged two men with selling counterfeit tickets for Sunday’s Super Bowl, including phony passes to star-studded parties after the first NFL championships to be held in the New York area, officials said Tuesday.
Winter storm brings ‘once in decade’ ice, snow to U.S. South
NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) – A rare blast of snow, sleet and ice hit the U.S. South on Tuesday, prompting three states to declare a state of emergency, closing the New Orleans airport and causing chaos on roads for drivers unaccustomed to the dangerously sl…
Porn photos of Amazon children get ex-missionary 58 yrs in prison
ORLANDO, Florida (Reuters) – A former missionary who admitted taking pornographic photos of children while working with a tribe in the Amazon region of Brazil was sentenced on Tuesday to 58 years in a U.S. prison.
