Small plane crashes near Atlantic City; pilot reported dead
(Reuters) – A small Vans RV7A aircraft crashed late Friday afternoon near Atlantic City, New Jersey, officials said, reportedly killing the pilot, who was the only person onboard.
Guantanamo hearing ends without ruling on ‘Starbucks solution’
GUANTANAMO BAY U.S. NAVAL BASE, Cuba (Reuters) – The judge in the Guantanamo war crimes tribunal recessed a weeklong hearing in the September 11 conspiracy case on Friday evening without ruling on a defense request to halt future hearings until Pentago…
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…
California law to regulate fracking signed by governor
SACRAMENTO, California (Reuters) – California’s first regulations on fracking and related oil production practices will go into effect next year in the most populous U.S. state under a bill signed into law on Friday by Democratic Governor Jerry Brown.
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.
