Emergency responders searched through wreckage in parts of Texas and Arkansas early Monday after a line of tornadoes battered several small communities, killing at least two people and injuring dozens of others.
With lowered flags and prayers, a southern Mississippi city is mourning two police officers, while the four people arrested after their shooting deaths await an initial court appearance Monday.
Part of a New York nuclear power plant remains offline as cleanup continues of transformer fluid that leaked into the Hudson River. The plant owner says it could be weeks before Indian Point 3 is reopened. …
By Scott Malone and Elizabeth Barber BOSTON (Reuters) – Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev told a Roman Catholic nun who is a prominent death penalty opponent that “no one deserves to suffer” as the victims of the deadly 2013 attacks had, the nun testified on Monday. He said no one deserves to suffer like they did,” the nun, Sister Helen Prejean said on Monday.
By Therese Apel JACKSON, Miss. (Reuters) – A man and woman in Mississippi were arrested and charged with murder on Sunday after two police officers were shot dead a day earlier while conducting a routine traffic stop in Hattiesburg, officials said. Marvin Banks, 29, and Joanie Calloway, 22, were each charged with two counts of capital murder, police said. Banks’ brother Curtis, 26, was also arrested and charged with two
At least two people were killed in Arkansas and another 10 unaccounted for in Texas after a series of tornadoes hit the Great Plains states overnight, flattening buildings and injuring dozens, local officials said on Monday. Two people were killed and two others were severely injured by a tornado that hit a trailer park in the western Arkansas county of Howard, according to local authorities. “We got several homes heavily
Late-season snow blankets Rockies and high plains; Tropical Storm Ana makes landfall in S.C.
Drug-resistant typhoid has become an invisible epidemic in Africa, scientists said on Monday after an unprecedented probe into the disease. The now-dominant lineage “has emerged and spread throughout Asia and Africa over the last 30 years,” it said. The disease is caused mainly by Salmonella typhi bacteria in food or water contaminated with the faeces or urine of infected people.
A UN-sponsored report on Monday denounced the World Health Organization’s slow response to the Ebola outbreak and said the agency still did not have the capacity to tackle a similar crisis. “It is still unclear to the panel why early warnings approximately from May through to July 2014 did not result in an effective and adequate response,” an interim report by a six-member expert team said. WHO only declared a
