Death of Kerrigan’s father ruled a homicide
The medical examiner has ruled that the death of Daniel Kerrigan, the father of skater Nancy Kerrigan, was a homicide, the Middlesex, Massachusetts, district attorney’s office said Tuesday.
An earthquake rattled northern Illinois early Wednesday, shaking an area about 50 miles west-northwest of Chicago, the U.S. Geological Survey said.
The federal Transportation Security Administration failed to notify most airborne flight crews of the failed Christmas Day terrorist attack on a U.S.-bound plane, an airline pilots union said Wednesday.
A faulty monitoring system on a gasoline tank at a Puerto Rico storage facility most likely led to a massive fire in October that damaged homes and businesses more than a mile away, federal investigators said Tuesday.
The doctor who implanted six embryos in octuplets’ mother Nadya Suleman last year has been expelled from a fertility medical society, a spokesman for the group said.
Continental Airlines has matched Delta Air Lines’ recent checked-luggage fee increase, a Continental spokeswoman says. Delta and Continental passengers paying online for checked bags will be charged $23 for the first bag and $32 for the second.
A small plane crashed near a residence in Illinois on Saturday, killing two men onboard, authorities said.
Jurors believed American Amanda Knox played a role in the slaying of her British roommate, Meredith Kercher, but they thought the death came about without any premeditation or animosity, according to a report released Thursday.
Action has been taken against “the individuals involved” in posting a sensitive Transportation Security Administration screening manual on the Internet, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano told members of Congress on Wednesday.
A year after the remains of a Florida toddler were discovered, a lawyer for the slain child’s mother asked a judge Friday to stop prosecutors from seeking the death penalty against her.
President Obama will meet with top congressional leaders from both parties Tuesday to discuss the war in Afghanistan, according to two Democratic officials.
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