Richard Valdmanis

Confidentiality required for Sandy Hook school demolition crews

August 24, 2021 at 9:29 p.m.

BOSTON (Reuters) - Workers tearing down Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, site of one of Americas worst school shootings, have been required by the town to sign confidentiality...

Debt-wracked nations could learn from Norway, prime minister says

August 24, 2021 at 8:36 p.m.

BOSTON (Reuters) - Debt-laden European nations, the United States, and resource-rich developing countries could all learn from Norway's tight-fisted spending habits and oil wealth management, the Scandinavian nation's outgoing prime...

One-armed clapper, parboiled shrew earn Ig Nobel spoof awards

August 24, 2021 at 8:11 p.m.

BOSTON (Reuters) - Researchers who swallowed a parboiled shrew, discovered that dung beetles navigate by the stars and invented a machine to launch hijackers from airplanes were among the winners...

More U.S. patients feared at risk of rare brain disease

May 14, 2019 at 5:08 a.m.

BOSTON (Reuters) - Connecticut said on Friday that two patients who recently underwent surgery at a VA Hospital may have been exposed to a rare brain disease, adding to 13...

More U.S. patients feared at risk of rare brain disease

August 24, 2021 at 8:02 p.m.

BOSTON (Reuters) - Connecticut said on Friday that two patients who recently underwent surgery at a VA Hospital may have been exposed to a rare brain disease, adding to 13...

Insight: How a train ran away and devastated a Canadian town

August 24, 2021 at 5:59 p.m.

CHICAGO/LAC-MEGANTIC, Quebec (Reuters) - The short length of track, nestled in a dark pine and birch forest in Quebec, is a regular overnight stop for freight trains hauling crude oil...

Runaway train devastates small town in Quebec

August 24, 2021 at 5:50 p.m.

LAC-MEGANTIC, Quebec (Reuters) - The only warning Lac-Megantic residents had of the coming disaster was the louder-than-usual rumble of a train - a runaway locomotive laden with crude oil that...

Cities beef up security for Independence Day

August 24, 2021 at 5:38 p.m.

BOSTON (Reuters) - Security will be tighter than ever in several U.S. cities during Independence Day celebrations this week, which will see some of the largest public gatherings in the...

Cities beef up security for Independence Day

May 23, 2019 at 9:14 p.m.

BOSTON (Reuters) - Security will be tighter than ever in several U.S. cities during Independence Day celebrations this week, which will see some of the largest public gatherings in the...

Third man held in ex-NFL player Hernandez murder case

August 24, 2021 at 5:33 p.m.

BOSTON (Reuters) - A man wanted by Massachusetts in connection with a murder case against former professional football player Aaron Hernandez has surrendered in Miramar, Florida, police said on Friday....

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