Occupy Seattle member beats 16-year incumbent to City Council job
SEATTLE (Reuters) – Seattle residents have elected a political newcomer and member of the populist Occupy Seattle movement to their City Council, favoring a champion of a $15 minimum wage and tax on millionaires over a 16-year council veteran.
Oswald in lens, Ruby at his shoulder as Texas cameraman filmed history
AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) – As George Phenix shouldered his news camera in the throng of 50 reporters crowded noisily into the basement of the Dallas Police Department headquarters, he did not notice the man in a hat standing beside him.
Indiana’s Ball State ‘all clear’ after no gunman found
(Reuters) – Ball State University lifted a warning to shelter in place on Friday evening after a three-hour police search prompted by an individual shouting “gun” turned up no evidence of a gunman on the Muncie, Indiana, campus.
San Francisco becomes Gotham City for boy who battled cancer
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – San Francisco on Friday morphed into a Gotham City wonderland, where caped crusaders fought mischievous villains aboard cable cars and on sidewalks, for a little boy who celebrated his win against cancer by becoming “Bat Kid” …
Man who plunged from small plane off Miami presumed dead: police
MIAMI (Reuters) – A day-long search failed to find a man who is presumed dead after he was reported to have jumped or fallen from a small private airplane as it flew off the coast of the Miami area, authorities said on Friday.
New York City wrestles with how to track Superstorm Sandy funds
NEW YORK (Reuters) – New York City’s Bloomberg administration intends to launch a database within two weeks to better track the billions of dollars of federal relief for Superstorm Sandy victims, even as city legislators hope to craft a system of their…
Beckham lines up long shot: founding a Miami soccer team
MIAMI (Reuters) – From his tattoos to his finely chiseled physique and Armani underwear ads, soccer icon David Beckham oozes Miami-style sex appeal.
Gunman reportedly seen on campus at Indiana’s Ball State
(Reuters) – Ball State University of Muncie, Indiana, on Friday warned that an individual reported seeing a gunman on campus and urged students and faculty to seek shelter.
Bones found in California desert said to be those of missing family
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Two sets of skeletal remains found buried in the California desert earlier this week have been identified as the parents in a family that vanished nearly four years ago, and the remaining bones are likely their two young sons, p…
Colorado theater gunman mentally ill, precluding execution: defense lawyers
DENVER (Reuters) – Accused Colorado theater gunman James Holmes should not be executed if he is convicted of murdering 12 moviegoers because he suffers from a chronic mental illness, defense lawyers said in a court document made public on Friday.
