Midwest surveys damage from rare autumn tornadoes
(Reuters) – With daylight on Saturday, emergency responders began assessing the destruction from a series of more than a dozen rare autumn tornadoes that caused injuries and significant damage in rural areas of Iowa and Nebraska.
Four dead in U.S. plane crash on Panama-Colombia border
BOGOTA (Reuters) – Four of six passengers on a U.S. government surveillance mission died on Saturday when their plane crashed along a section of jungle on Colombia’s border with Panama known for arms and drug trafficking, Colombian military sources sai…
As U.S. struggles with health reform, the Amish go their own way
GORDONVILLE, Pennsylvania (Reuters) – The debate over U.S. healthcare reform that has gripped the nation and led to a government shutdown is of small concern in rural Pennsylvania’s Amish country for a very simple reason.
Pentagon to recall most furloughed workers, easing shutdown pain
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Pentagon said on Saturday it would recall most of the roughly 400,000 civilian Defense Department employees sent home during the government shutdown, in a move that could greatly lessen the impact of the shutdown on America’s…
Pentagon recalling most civilian defense employees idled by shutdown
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Pentagon said on Saturday it will recall most of the roughly 400,000 civilian Defense Department employees sent home during the government shutdown, in a move that could greatly lessen the impact of feuding in Washington on U…
Man who set himself on fire near monuments in Washington dies
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A man who set himself on fire in the heart of the U.S. capital as tourists and joggers watched in horror has died from his injuries, a Washington police spokesman said on Saturday.
Women seek access to traditionally male-only Mormon gathering
(Reuters) – Women seeking priesthood in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints said they will attempt to attend a traditionally men-only leadership session of the church in Salt Lake City on Saturday, despite having been denied tickets.
Former NYPD sergeant questions sister’s killing by police in Washington
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Police in Washington could have avoided shooting dead a woman pursued by officers in a car chase that led to the lockdown of the Capitol this week, the driver’s sister, former New York police sergeant Valarie Carey, said late on Fr…
Detroit union wins victory worth ‘refund on deck of Titanic’
(Reuters) – Detroit’s largest public sector union scored a symbolic victory Friday when a Michigan administrative law judge reinstated an extra annual pension check for city workers and retirees, although the judge in the city’s bankruptcy case has pro…
U.S. judge orders release of mentally ill Guantanamo prisoner
MIAMI (Reuters) – A federal judge has ordered the release of a Guantanamo Bay prisoner suffering from severe mental illness who has been spent much of his time at a psychiatric ward on the U.S. naval base since he arrived more than 11 years ago.
