Man removed from flight in Phoenix over infectious disease alert
PHOENIX (Reuters) – Officials removed a man with an unspecified infectious disease – possibly tuberculosis – from a US Airways Express flight with 70 passengers on board shortly after it landed in Phoenix over the weekend, authorities said on Monday.
Dragon Con co-founder pleads guilty to child molestation
ATLANTA (Reuters) – A founder of the nationally known Dragon Con science fiction and fantasy convention pleaded guilty in Georgia on Monday to molesting three boys and will serve time under house arrest in a case that began with his arrest 13 years ago…
‘Cyber Monday’ sales set to hit record: analysts
NEW YORK (Reuters) – U.S. online sales are expected to hit $2 billion on “Cyber Monday,” for the first time since the data firm comScore has been tracking such information.
Police subdue Ohio student armed with pellet gun
CLEVELAND, Ohio (Reuters) – A Toledo, Ohio student, armed with a pellet gun and holed up by himself at a high school was taken into custody on Monday after police used a non-lethal “bean bag” projectile to end a standoff, authorities said.
U.N. rights chief condemns North Korean arrest of U.S. war veteran
GENEVA (Reuters) – U.N. human rights chief Navi Pillay on Monday condemned North Korea’s detention of an 85-year-old American and said she was checking a report of recent mass executions in the country.
Cost of “Twelve Days of Christmas” gifts leaps in 2013
(Reuters) – Buying a set of the gifts named in the classic holiday carol “The Twelve Days of Christmas” will cost a true love $27,393 this year, up 7.7 percent from the 2012 price tag, according to an annual tongue-in-cheek analysis released on Monday….
Serial killer serving life sentence dies in South Dakota
(Reuters) – A serial killer died on Sunday after serving less than three years of a life sentence for strangling seven women, according to South Dakota prison officials.
Suburban NYC school briefly evacuated after phone threat
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A suburban New York high school with thousands of students was evacuated briefly on Monday after the school received a telephone threat, police said.
Chrysler to introduce small Ram commercial van in North America
DETROIT (Reuters) – Chrysler Group LLC said on Monday it will offer a new small commercial van for the North American market based on parent Fiat’s Doblo van.
Man briefly commandeers ferry at Seattle’s waterfront: police
(Reuters) – A Seattle man was in jail on Monday after police said he commandeered a passenger ferry at the city’s waterfront and guided it some 300 yards into the bay before authorities stopped him.
