PHILADELPHIA — A heavy equipment operator with a lengthy rap sheet accused of being high on marijuana when a downtown building collapsed onto a thrift store, killing six people, turned himself in on Saturday to face charges in the deaths, police said.
The great comedian W.C. Fields is credited with the line, “Never work with children or animals.” He would have had trouble on Broadway this season.
SANTA MONICA, Calif. — A man with a semi-automatic rifle killed four people and wounded five others Friday as he carried out a deadly rampage across several blocks of a normally idyllic beachfront city. Police shot him dead in the Santa Monica College Library.
Whole Foods Market is reviewing its employee language policy after two of its Spanish-speaking workers in New Mexico said they were suspended after complaining about it, a company spokeswoman said Friday.
Steady growth in hiring last month sent the stock market sharply higher Friday.
Third baseman Kris Bryant could have flown to New Jersey and sat in the dugout of the MLB Network set with other top draft prospects. He could have invited local media to his Las Vegas home to record his reaction. He did neither.
As Major League Baseball ramps up its investigation into performance-enhancing drugs to more than a dozen major league players, three-time AL MVP Alex Rodriguez quietly rehabs his surgically repaired hip at the Yankees’ minor league facility in Tampa, Fla., with plans to return in the second half of the season with “a lot of unfinished business.”
NEW YORK — Police say an emotionally disturbed man is in custody after he tried to slit his wrists outside NBC’s “Today” show in New York City.
PHILADELPHIA — Buoyed by the discovery of a woman buried in rubble nearly 13 hours later, rescue workers on Thursday were digging through the debris from a building collapse that killed six people a day earlier, even though they believed no one else was trapped.
Kris Bryant will be one of the top picks in Thursday’s Major League Baseball draft. Bryant, a Bonanza High School graduate and University of San Diego star who put up mind-numbing power numbers as a junior this season, probably will go in the top five with a chance to be selected first by the Houston Astros.
