Month: April 2013

A Colorado man has been arrested and charged with abusive sexual contact after he groped a Spirit Airlines flight attendant during a flight from Las Vegas to Denver last week. The case was investigated by the FBI. Here are the details.

A New York kindergartner has been blocked from school over her mom’s refusal to give her the chicken pox vaccine.

By Andrew Green JUBA (Reuters) – Five U.N. peacekeepers and seven civilians working for the U.N. mission in South Sudan were killed in an ambush by unidentified attackers in the restive eastern state of Jonglei on Tuesday, the United Nations said. “At least nine additional peacekeepers and civilians were injured in the attack and some remain unaccounted for,” the U.N. Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) said in a statement. India’s foreign ministry said the peacekeepers killed were Indian. …

TOKYO (Reuters) – The company that runs a Japanese nuclear power plant destroyed by a tsunami two years ago said on Tuesday it was losing faith in temporary storage pits for radioactive water – but it doesn't have anywhere else to put it. Tokyo Electric Power Co (Tepco) said it had found a new leak at one of the pits at the Fukushima Daiichi plant. Three out of seven storage pits are now leaking, compounding clean-up difficulties after the world's worst nuclear crisis in 25 years. …