Man charged in carjacking attempt of mother of baseball’s Cal Ripken
(Reuters) – A Maryland man is facing charges after police said he tried to carjack baseball Hall of Famer Cal Ripken Jr.’s mother, who thwarted her armed attacker in a bank parking lot by activating her car’s panic alarm from her keychain, police said …
Bomb scare prompts brief evacuation of Miami airport concourse
MIAMI (Reuters) – A passenger terminal at Miami International Airport was evacuated for nearly two hours on Wednesday after a bomb-sniffing dog detected something suspicious, authorities said.
‘I’m not crazy,’ says man who found accused Boston bomber: report
(Reuters) – The owner of the boat where the accused Boston Marathon bomber was found hiding told the Boston Globe that he is “not crazy” and never would have searched had he thought the accused bomber was hiding there.
Man arrested over dry ice blast at Los Angeles airport
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – A 28-year-old man was arrested on Tuesday in connection with a dry ice bomb that exploded in an employee restroom at Los Angeles International Airport on Sunday night, police said.
Wanted: Pregnant cows to help South Dakota ranchers recover from storm
(Reuters) – Ranchers in South Dakota who lost large parts of their cattle herds to a winter storm are not asking for blankets or food to help them recover. They want pregnant cows and heifers of breeding age, said a group organizing donations on Tuesda…
Online group Anonymous takes aim at Missouri town over sex assault case
(Reuters) – The online activist group Anonymous said on Tuesday it would launch a “Twitter storm” and stage a rally in a Missouri town to protest the dropping of sex charges against two ex-high school football players in an incident involving a 14-year…
Colorado police initially thought theater gunman was another officer
CENTENNIAL, Colo. (Reuters) – Accused Colorado theater gunman James Holmes was clad in body armor when he shot dead 12 moviegoers, leading responding police to mistake him for a fellow officer, two policemen said at a pretrial hearing on Tuesday.
Trial begins for prominent Utah doctor accused of killing wife
SALT LAKE CITY (Reuters) – Jury selection began on Tuesday in the murder trial of a prominent Utah doctor accused of killing his wife with a cocktail of drugs so he could continue an extramarital affair.
North Carolina is first state to cut welfare amid federal shutdown
RALEIGH, North Carolina (Reuters) – North Carolina has become the first state to cut off welfare benefits to poor residents in the wake of the partial federal government shutdown, ordering a halt to processing November applications until a deal is reac…
In U.S. top court race case, John Roberts is chief phrasemaker
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – As U.S. chief justice, John Roberts has sought to rein in laws he insists have gone too far on race. At the Supreme Court on Tuesday, he matched rhetoric to action with a pithiness that underscores his opposition to racial prefer…
