Two dead in Utah as boulders crush home near U.S. national park
(Reuters) – Two people were killed and the home they occupied was destroyed after building-sized boulders crashed down a cliff and crushed the two-story structure outside Zion National Park in southern Utah, officials said on Friday.
Ohio man guilty of arson in retrial for deadly Cleveland blaze
CLEVELAND (Reuters) – A federal jury in Cleveland found a man guilty on Friday of setting a blaze that killed a woman and eight children in the deadliest house fire in the city’s history, a spokesman for the U.S. Attorney’s office said.
U.S. schools’ approach to student data threatens privacy: study
NEW YORK (Reuters) – School districts across the United States are failing to properly protect troves of sensitive student data as they rush to adopt new online systems pitched by private companies, a report released on Friday found.
Student opens fire at Colorado high school, wounds two classmates
CENTENNIAL, Colo. (Reuters) – A student armed with a shotgun and seeking to confront a teacher opened fire at a Colorado high school on Friday, wounding at least two classmates before apparently taking his own life, law enforcement officials said.
Toyota to start settlement talks for acceleration cases
(Reuters) – Toyota Motor Corp will begin talks to potentially settle hundreds of lawsuits alleging that defects caused some of its vehicles to unexpectedly accelerate, according to a court filing.
Teacher, father recall terror, grief a year after Connecticut shooting
GREENWICH, Conn (Reuters) – It has been a year since Kaitlin Roig barricaded herself and 15 first-graders in a bathroom at Sandy Hook Elementary School, hiding from a gunman who would go on to kill 26 people in an 11-minute rampage.
Two hurt in plant explosions south of Chicago
CHICAGO (Reuters) – Two people were injured on Friday in explosions at a chemical plant in a suburb of Chicago, a local official said.
Amazon pressed on gun accessory sales, a year after Newtown
BOSTON (Reuters) – Activist investors have asked Amazon.com Inc to review its sales of firearms accessories, concerned that the online retailer offers products that could be used to convert semi-automatic rifles into weapons that fire too rapidly to be…
Union head says Boeing contract offer not much improved
OLYMPIA, Washington (Reuters) – Machinist union leaders rejected a second contract offer from Boeing Co, which would have secured work on the new 777X jetliner for the Seattle area, because it differed little from an offer that union members had alread…
Ohio man who shot wife at hospital sentenced to 6 years
CLEVELAND (Reuters) – A man convicted of shooting his wife to death while she was lying in a hospital bed was sentenced by an Ohio judge on Friday to six years in prison after prosecutors requested leniency in the case.
