Fumes sicken dozens at Tacoma elementary school
(Reuters) – Forty-two students and five staff of an elementary school in Tacoma, Washington were taken to area hospitals on Friday after being sickened by fumes, possibly from a leaf blower being used on the school roof.
U.S. House taunts Democrats with anti-Obamacare spending bill
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A familiar Washington melodrama – will they or won’t they shut down the government – took center stage on Friday when the Republican-controlled House of Representatives passed a bill to fund the government, but only if President …
‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ author in dispute with U.S. museum over book’s title
BIRMINGHAM, Alabama (Reuters) – The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of “To Kill a Mockingbird,” Harper Lee, is locked in a dispute with a museum in her Alabama hometown over the use of the novel’s title.
Indianapolis policeman killed responding to domestic disturbance
INDIANAPOLIS (Reuters) – A 41-year-old Indianapolis police officer was shot and killed Friday as he tried to help a woman and her infant who were being held hostage, police said.
Atom bomb nearly exploded over North Carolina in 1961: UK paper
LONDON (Reuters) – A U.S. atom bomb nearly exploded in 1961 over North Carolina that would have been 260 times more powerful than the device that devastated Hiroshima, according to a declassified document published in a British newspaper on Friday.
Rodents, insects found in Virginia ice-cream cone warehouse
(Reuters) – U.S. authorities have seized ice-cream waffle cones from a food storage facility in Waynesboro, Virginia, after inspectors found widespread rodent and insect infestation on the premises.
Tennessee couple indicted for pot deal quadruple murder
NASHVILLE, Tennessee (Reuters) – A Tennessee couple were indicted on Friday for the shooting deaths of a woman and three teens in a robbery during a pot deal at a resort community in the state, officials said.
Search narrows for missing in Colorado flood disaster
DENVER (Reuters) – Disaster teams in flood-ravaged foothills of Colorado narrowed their search on Friday for 82 people still unaccounted for a week and a half after torrential rains began, and officials said some of the missing would most likely be add…
NYC Health Department headquarters is bugged – with ones that crawl
NEW YORK (Reuters) – New York City’s Department of Health and Mental Hygiene has a problem — and it sounds more like one for which it might issue a citation than find in its own backyard.
Kentucky authorities hunt for man who killed three at pawn shop
(Reuters) – Kentucky authorities on Friday searched for a gunman who killed three people in a robbery at a pawn shop, forcing a lock-down for several hours at schools including nearby Centre College in Danville, Kentucky.
