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• Greeks gone wild: Can schools solve the fraternity problem?
• Harry Reid retiring: Democrats who could replace him
• Shopping centers near Pentagon evacuated over bomb threat: local media
• Senate's Harry Reid announces he won't seek re-election
• White supremacist to be arraigned in Kansas Jewish center killings
• Woman charged with scamming Boston bombing victims fund
• Germany hunts for co-pilot motive amid depression reports
• San Francisco jail guards forced inmates to fight: public defender
• Photos: Building collapse in New York City's East Village
• Senior police official in Fresno, California, arrested on drug charges
• Is Moore, Okla., the ‘tornado alley of tornado alley’?
• Police settle suit over use of tear gas during Missouri protests
• U.S. House okays bipartisan bill to fix Medicare doctor payments
• White House crafts first-ever plan to fight superbugs
• Explosion rocks NYC neighborhood

Greeks gone wild: Can schools solve the fraternity problem? Posted: 27 Mar 2015 11:46 AM PDT After at least seven fraternities have been suspended for offensive, dangerous and in some cases potentially criminal behavior this month, some schools are asking what they can do to get a handle on Greek life.

Harry Reid retiring: Democrats who could replace him Posted: 27 Mar 2015 11:15 AM PDT

Shopping centers near Pentagon evacuated over bomb threat: local media Posted: 27 Mar 2015 10:59 AM PDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Pentagon City Shopping Plaza and the Pentagon City Mall near the headquarters of the U.S. Department of Defense in Arlington, Virginia, were evacuated on Friday after an anonymous bomb threat was made, local media reported. According to the local Fox News affiliate, bomb-sniffing dogs were searching the area. (Reporting By Lisa Lambert; Editing by Will Dunham)

Senate's Harry Reid announces he won't seek re-election Posted: 27 Mar 2015 05:34 AM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid is announcing he will not seek re-election to another term.

White supremacist to be arraigned in Kansas Jewish center killings Posted: 27 Mar 2015 05:18 AM PDT By Kevin Murphy KANSAS CITY, Kan. (Reuters) - A Missouri white supremacist is scheduled to be arraigned on Friday afternoon on charges that he fatally shot three people outside two Jewish centers in a Kansas City suburb last April. Frazier Glenn Cross Jr., 74, is expected to enter a plea to three charges of capital murder and three charges of attempted murder in a shooting spree April 13 in Overland Park, Kansas. Cross, a former senior member of the Ku Klux Klan who had expressed a hatred for Jews, could face the death penalty if convicted on the capital murder charges.

Woman charged with scamming Boston bombing victims fund Posted: 27 Mar 2015 02:54 AM PDT (Reuters) - A Boston woman has been indicted with fraudulently obtaining $8,000 from the fund set up for victims of the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing, and thousands more from other fundraising, officials said on Thursday. Investigators found that Joanna Leigh, 41, was at the Boston Marathon on April 15, 2013 when two bombs exploded, killing three people and injuring more than 260, but they argued that she was not injured, the Boston Police Department said in a statement. Leigh was indicted earlier this month by a Suffolk County grand jury on five larceny counts and a charge of making a false claim to the government, the police department said. It said Leigh received $8,000 from The One Fund Boston, which raised nearly $80 million in the aftermath of the attack.

Germany hunts for co-pilot motive amid depression reports Posted: 27 Mar 2015 02:37 AM PDT Police have searched the homes of co-pilot Andreas Lubitz in two cities.

San Francisco jail guards forced inmates to fight: public defender Posted: 27 Mar 2015 12:32 AM PDT By Emmett Berg SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Several guards at San Francisco's main county jail orchestrated "gladiator-style" fights between inmates, placed bets on the outcomes and threatened those who disobeyed, the city's public defender said on Thursday. The report released by San Francisco's elected public defender, Jeff Adachi, highlighted fights arranged between two inmates who were promised hamburgers if they won or beatings and other punishment if they refused. Adachi alleged that San Francisco sheriff's deputy Scott Neu, who was accused in 2006 of forcing inmates to perform sex acts on him, forced the inmates to fight twice. "Deputy Neu forced these young men to participate in gladiator-style fights for his own sadistic entertainment," Adachi said in a statement The San Francisco Deputy Sheriff's Association told the San Francisco Chronicle that the allegations were "exaggerated" and the fighting was "little more than horseplay." "(Adachi) has done a cursory sham investigation by interviewing a few inmates over a scant two days rather than having the decency to request a serious impartial investigation," Harry Stern, an attorney for the deputy's union, told the Chronicle in a statement.

Photos: Building collapse in New York City's East Village Posted: 26 Mar 2015 09:56 PM PDT A building burns after an explosion on 2nd Avenue on March 26, 2015 in New York City. The seven alarm fire drew firefighters from across the city. A number of injuries have been reported. (Andrew Burton/Getty Images)

Senior police official in Fresno, California, arrested on drug charges Posted: 26 Mar 2015 07:21 PM PDT (Reuters) - The deputy police chief in Fresno, California, was arrested on Thursday on charges of participating in multiple conspiracies to distribute heroin, oxycodone and marijuana, the FBI said. Keith Foster, 51, was arrested along with three other residents of Fresno, about 170 miles south of Sacramento, an FBI statement said. Two other Fresno residents also face drug charges but have not yet been arrested. "It is important that we do everything we can to maintain and enhance the trust that our citizens have in us," Fresno Police Chief Jerry Dyer told a news conference after Foster's arrest.

Is Moore, Okla., the ‘tornado alley of tornado alley’? Posted: 26 Mar 2015 06:50 PM PDT Residents of an Oklahoma town are wondering why their community has been a frequent target of twisters.

Police settle suit over use of tear gas during Missouri protests Posted: 26 Mar 2015 05:45 PM PDT (Reuters) - Three Missouri police agencies have agreed to restrict the use of tear gas as part of a settlement of a lawsuit alleging that officers used heavy-handed tactics to quell protests in Ferguson after a white officer fatally shot an unarmed black teen. The settlement requires police to warn demonstrators and give them reasonable time to disperse before using tear gas or other chemical agents in response to non-criminal activity. U.S. District Judge Carol Jackson dismissed the case formally on Thursday, but retained jurisdiction through 2017 to enforce the settlement terms. Sometimes violent protests followed the shooting in August of Michael Brown, 18, during a confrontation with Ferguson policeman Darren Wilson and a grand jury's decision in November not to indict Wilson.

U.S. House okays bipartisan bill to fix Medicare doctor payments Posted: 26 Mar 2015 04:12 PM PDT By Susan Cornwell and Caroline Humer WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday overwhelmingly approved a bill to permanently repair the formula for reimbursing Medicare physicians, marking a rare bipartisan achievement and sending the issue next to the Senate. The measure drafted and driven forward by Republican House Speaker John Boehner and Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi would fix a long-standing problem with how Medicare pays doctors. The Senate may not act until it returns from a two-week recess that starts this weekend. Democratic President Barack Obama praised the House passage and said he hoped the Senate would approve the measure too, because he wants to sign it.

White House crafts first-ever plan to fight superbugs Posted: 26 Mar 2015 03:07 PM PDT By Yasmeen Abutaleb and Lisa Baertlein NEW YORK/LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The White House is due to issue an ambitious plan to slow the growing and deadly problem of antibiotic resistance over the next five years, one that requires massive investments and policy changes from a broad array of U.S. government health agencies, according to a copy of the report reviewed by Reuters. The 60-page report is the first ever to tackle antibiotic resistance so broadly. Administration officials were not immediately available to comment. Doctors and health experts have warned for decades that rising rates of resistant bacteria are leading to tens of thousands of deaths, threatening to nullify modern medical advancements.

Explosion rocks NYC neighborhood Posted: 26 Mar 2015 01:46 PM PDT The blast causes a fire and at least partial collapse at an apartment building in Manhattan's East Village.

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