Four dead in shootings as Chicago gun-death toll rises
CHICAGO (Reuters) – A new spate of gun violence in Chicago left four men dead, Chicago police said on Saturday, less than two days after a shooting spree at a park in the city wounded 13 people, including a 3-year-boy.
Harvard seeks $6.5 billion in record fundraising drive
BOSTON (Reuters) – Harvard, the richest university in the United States, said on Saturday it would seek to raise some $6.5 billion in donations to fund new academic initiatives and bolster its financial aid program.
Two cyclists killed in annual group bike ride in New Hampshire
(Reuters) – Two cyclists died in New Hampshire on Saturday when a car slammed into an annual group bike ride up the New England coast that draws up to 1,600 riders a year, police said.
Harvard asks donors for $6.5 billion
BOSTON (Reuters) – Harvard, the richest university in the United States, said on Saturday it would seek to raise some $6.5 billion in donations to fund new academic initiatives and bolster its financial aid program.
Tourists behind bars: Old prisons cater to the curious
JEFFERSON CITY, Missouri (Reuters) – Halfway through a tour of the bleak, deserted Missouri State Penitentiary – notorious in its day for assaults, murders and gas chamber executions – nurse Donna Springer tried to explain why she wanted to visit such …
Even in a U.S. government shutdown, Obamacare exchanges could function
NEW YORK (Reuters) – U.S. State officials behind the launch of President Barack Obama’s healthcare reform on October 1 say they could weather a federal government shutdown, though the scenario would add new pressure to the political attacks and technic…
Americans injured in Kenya mall attack: State Department
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. State Department said on Saturday it had reports that American citizens were injured in an attack when gunmen stormed a shopping mall in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, and it condemned the shooting as a “senseless act of v…
Four dead in latest Chicago shootings after 13 wounded at park
CHICAGO (Reuters) – A series of gun attacks overnight in Chicago left four men dead, following a shooting at a South Side park that wounded 13 people this week, police said on Saturday.
County clerks on front lines of U.S. gay marriage battle
(Reuters) – For weeks, the lesbian couple courted the Guilford County register of deeds in North Carolina before asking for a marriage license. They went for coffee, shared life stories and, finally, prayed with him in a big circle on the grass outside…
Pot: Alaska, Oregon may vote to inhale next year
SEATTLE (Reuters) – Marijuana legalization activists hope Alaska and Oregon will become the next two states to put recreational use of the drug before the voters, perhaps as early as next year.
