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• Two dead in fiery Las Vegas bus crash
• Annual pillow fight turns bloody at military academy: NYT
• Prosecutors seek to re-argue case that ended Connecticut death penalty
• Supporters gather at jail for Kentucky clerk held in gay marriage dispute
• Total Port Arthur refinery halts coker ops after worker killed
• Hungary bus fleet delivers 4,000 migrants to Austria welcome
• Clinton says she didn't 'stop and think' about email setup
• Fire at Washington state Planned Parenthood ruled arson
• From Intercourse, Pa., to Monkey’s Eyebrow, Ky., how U.S. places got their names
• Police show in force for funeral of Texas deputy killed in shooting

Two dead in fiery Las Vegas bus crash Posted: 05 Sep 2015 12:38 PM PDT (Reuters) - Two people died and four more were hurt early on Saturday in a fiery bus crash near downtown Las Vegas, authorities said.

Annual pillow fight turns bloody at military academy: NYT Posted: 05 Sep 2015 10:47 AM PDT The event, part of a tradition for first-year students at the service academy in West Point, New York, is intended as a way to help them blow off steam and build morale after a summer spent preparing for a grueling program, the newspaper reported. Lieutenant Colonel Christopher Kasker, an academy spokesman, told the Times the matter was under investigation and there were no plans to cancel the tradition. "West Point applauds the cadets' desire to build esprit and regrets the injuries to our cadets," Kasker told the Times.

Prosecutors seek to re-argue case that ended Connecticut death penalty Posted: 05 Sep 2015 10:15 AM PDT Connecticut prosecutors asked the state Supreme Court on Friday to reconsider its recent decision on a narrow vote to end the state's death penalty, the Hartford Courant newspaper reported. Prosecutors late Friday filed a motion asking the justices to allow them to re-argue the case in which justices called the death penalty cruel and unusual punishment and concluded that it "no longer comports with contemporary standards of decency." The ruling, on a 4-3 vote, added Connecticut to the growing list of states backing away from the death penalty, including Nebraska and Maryland most recently. Thirty-one states have the death penalty.

Supporters gather at jail for Kentucky clerk held in gay marriage dispute Posted: 05 Sep 2015 09:27 AM PDT By Steve Bittenbender GRAYSON, Ky. (Reuters) - Around 200 supporters gathered outside a Kentucky jail on Saturday to support a county clerk held there for defying a federal judge's order to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples. Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis, 49, who refused the licenses due to her Christian belief that marriage can only be between a man and a woman, said she was prepared to remain in jail where she has been reading a Bible since her incarceration for contempt on Thursday, her lawyers said. On Saturday, a white banner spray-painted with the black letters "Kim Davis POW" was placed near the jail entrance and a bagpipe and drum corps from the American Society for the Defense of Tradition, Family and Property played "You're a Grand Old Flag" and marched to the detention center.

Total Port Arthur refinery halts coker ops after worker killed Posted: 05 Sep 2015 07:50 AM PDT Total SA said coker operations were halted at the company's 225,500 barrel per day (bpd) Port Arthur, Texas, refinery on Saturday following the death of a contract worker. Production at the refinery has been cut back due to the operations halt on the coker, where the worker, an employee of Kinder Morgan Inc's nearby petroleum coke terminal, was killed early on Saturday, said sources familiar with plant operations. Both Total and Kinder Morgan confirmed the death and said regulatory agencies along with the Jefferson County Sheriff's Department had been notified.

Hungary bus fleet delivers 4,000 migrants to Austria welcome Posted: 05 Sep 2015 05:51 AM PDT Thousands of exhausted, elated migrants reached their dream destinations of Germany and Austria on Saturday.

Clinton says she didn't 'stop and think' about email setup Posted: 05 Sep 2015 12:56 AM PDT She says her use of a private email system at the State Department wasn't the "best choice."

Fire at Washington state Planned Parenthood ruled arson Posted: 04 Sep 2015 09:22 PM PDT The blaze was set around 3:30 a.m. local time and caused extensive damage to the front of the structure in Pullman, the Pullman Fire Department said in a news release. Last month, thousands of protesters rallied outside Planned Parenthood locations across the country calling for the federal government to end funding for the health organization. Demonstrators were mobilized to dozens of locations, including Pullman, after an anti-abortion group released videos purporting to show Planned Parenthood officials negotiating prices for aborted fetal tissue.

From Intercourse, Pa., to Monkey’s Eyebrow, Ky., how U.S. places got their names Posted: 04 Sep 2015 08:34 PM PDT

Police show in force for funeral of Texas deputy killed in shooting Posted: 04 Sep 2015 01:38 PM PDT More than 10,000 law enforcement officers from across the United States attended the Houston funeral of Harris County Deputy Darren Goforth on Friday, remembering him as good-natured man who brought dignity to the profession. Goforth, 47, was fatally shot on Aug. 28 as he fueled a patrol car at a Houston-area gas station. Harris County Sheriff Ron Hickman said officers responding to calls for help will be doing so in Goforth's honor.

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