Rhode Island – 5 Estudiantes de escuela primaria y una mujer fueron llevados al hospital luego de que el autobús escolar #41 en el que viajaban chocó con una camioneta de National Grid y un automóvil Los estudiantes de la Escuela Primaria Feinstein de entre 8 y 9 años de edad fueron llevados al Hospital […]readmore
CENTRAL FALLS – At 5:10 PM on December 21, 2015, Central Falls Police and Fire personnel responded to an apartment for a 14 year old female with six stab wounds. The victim stated she was assaulted in Central Falls, but was otherwise indifferent. She was transported to Hasbro Children’s Hospital for non-life threatening injuries. The […]readmore
VOA News January 05, 2016 Authorities in the southern state of Florida have arrested a man accused of vandalizing a mosque with a machete and leaving pork products at the scene. Michael Scott Wolfe, 35, was arrested Monday in Titusville, Florida. He is being charged with criminal mischief of a religious building, a third degree […]readmore
Chris Hannas January 05, 2016 Armed anti-government activists pressed on with their occupation of a wildlife reserve in the northwestern U.S. state of Oregon on Tuesday, despite the father and son at the center of the group’s protest returning to jail and distancing themselves from the activists. What began with a splinter group from peaceful […]readmore
VOA News January 04, 2016 U.S. officials say immigration authorities have taken 121 people into custody since Friday, in the first raids targeting the deportation of families who have entered the United States illegally since May 2014. Homeland Security Chief Jeh Johnson said the detainees were taken into custody in the states of Texas, Georgia […]readmore
NEW YORK —Darius McCollum’s addiction isn’t for booze and pills — it’s for buses and trains. The New York transit impostor who first commandeered a train at age 15 has been arrested 30 times over the years for transit-related crimes. Most recently, he was nabbed in November behind the wheel of a Greyhound bus that […]readmore
WASHINGTON— Statement from Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, on the executive actions announced today by President Barack Obama to reduce gun violence: “The AFT strongly supports President Obama’s effort to take action against our national epidemic of gun violence—in 2015 alone, there were more than 52,000 incidents of gun violence in […]readmore
VOA News The U.S. Justice Department filed a civil lawsuit Monday against Volkswagen AG for installing illegal software to make diesel engines meet federal emissions standards in 600,000 suspect vehicles. A Justice Department statement described the complaint as «the first stage in bringing Volkswagen to justice» for failing to disclose what it said was a […]readmore
VOA News As the U.S. heads into a presidential election year amid sharpening political divisions, the Supreme Court is set to decide a number of ideologically charged cases in 2016 on topics such as abortion, contraceptives, immigration and union membership. The sharply divided Court is likely to produce a series of 5-4 decisions that will […]readmore
VOA News The U.S. government has shut down a drone base in southern Ethiopia that was part of the U.S. anti-terrorism effort in the region. The U.S. embassy in Addis Ababa told VOA Monday that «U.S. military personnel are no longer in Arba Minch,» the town where the base was located. Embassy press officer Katherine […]readmore