Fisker Automotive failure could hit U.S. taxpayers for years to come
WILMINGTON, Delaware (Reuters) – The bankruptcy of Fisker Automotive could end up costing the U.S. government much more than the $168 million it loaned to the maker of the Karma plug-in hybrid sports car.
Amtrak train derails in South Carolina; four suffer minor injuries
(Reuters) – An Amtrak train headed to New York with about 200 passengers aboard derailed in South Carolina early on Monday, causing minor injuries, officials said.
Bankrupt U.S. city to dispute debt with California pension fund
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Bankrupt San Bernardino, California, enters mediation with its creditors on Monday and will immediately dispute the amount the California Public Employees’ Retirement System (Calpers) says the city owes in pension arrears, accor…
Newtown braces for Monday release of report on school shooting
(Reuters) – Schools in Newtown, Connecticut, will employ extra security on Monday as the state releases its long-awaited report on the 2012 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School that killed 20 children and six adults.
Jeddah U.S. consulate attacker sentenced to death, others jailed
RIYADH (Reuters) – A Saudi court has sentenced one man to death and another 19 to jail terms ranging from 18 months to 25 years for taking part in storming the U.S. consulate in Jeddah in 2004, killing nine, one of a series of al Qaeda attacks last dec…
Reward offered after Maryland postal worker’s fatal shooting
(Reuters) – A U.S. Postal Service worker was shot and killed while delivering mail about 10 miles outside Washington, authorities said on Sunday.
Four killed, one wounded in shooting at Tulsa, Oklahoma, drug house
(Reuters) – Four people were killed and one person was wounded in a shooting at a reputed drug house in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where methamphetamine has been dealt and used, police said on Sunday.
The curious and the skeptical mark murder anniversary at Oswald grave
FORT WORTH, Texas (Reuters) – On a frigid, rainy Texas Sunday, a small but steady trickle of curious visitors made their way to the grave of Kennedy assassin Lee Harvey Oswald on the 50th anniversary of his murder.
Long-missing man taken to Mexico as toddler reunited with U.S. mother
SAN DIEGO (Reuters) – A Chicago-born man, who went missing three decades ago as a toddler after his father took him to Mexico, has been reunited with his U.S. mother in California after a harrowing trek back to the United States.
Harvard leads the way as 32 American Rhodes scholars announced
(Reuters) – Thirty-two Americans have been selected to head to Britain’s Oxford University next year as Rhodes scholars, joining a prestigious list of past recipients of one of the most coveted awards in academia.
