Topic: Steve Gorman

Elderly suicide kit maker pleads guilty to tax offense

SAN DIEGO (Reuters) - A great-grandmother selling do-it-yourself asphyxiation kits from her home in California pleaded guilty on Friday to a misdemeanor tax-related offense stemming from an investigation of her mail-order business.Sharlotte Hydorn, a retired public school science teacher in her 90s ...

UC Berkeley reports shooting at business school

BERKELEY, Calif (Reuters) - An armed man on the University of California, Berkeley campus was shot by police on Tuesday near the Haas business school, police said.The man was shot after he pulled a weapon on officers, university spokesman Dan Mogulof told ...

Doctors separating conjoined twins in California

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Surgeons in Northern California began a nine-hour operation on Tuesday to separate a pair of twin 2-year-old girls conjoined at the chest and abdomen.Doctors at Stanford University's Lucile Packard Children's Hospital were expected to complete the ...

Arizona serial killer found guilty of nine murders

PHOENIX (Reuters) - A former construction worker and convicted sexual predator was found guilty on Monday on nine counts of first-degree murder stemming from a crime spree that stunned the nation's sixth-largest city.Mark Goudeau, 47, faces a possible death sentence for ...

Raids dismantle $2 billion Arizona drug network: officials

PHOENIX (Reuters) - Law enforcement authorities have arrested over 70 people in raids that dismantled a narcotics trafficking network suspected of smuggling nearly $2 billion worth of drugs through Arizona's western desert, officials said on Monday.The announcement in Phoenix caps a ...

Authorities arrest 14-year-old for school threat

PHOENIX (Reuters) - A 14-year-old Phoenix boy was arrested by sheriff's deputies on Tuesday for threats made over the Internet to "go on a killing spree" and then commit suicide at his former middle school, authorities said.The boy was taken into ...

Teachers ratify deal ending strike in Tacoma, Wash

TACOMA, Wash (Reuters) - Jubilant teachers in Washington state's third-largest school district voted overwhelmingly on Thursday to ratify a contract deal that ended their weeklong strike and staved off proposed pay cuts.The settlement was reached on Wednesday night after seven hours ...

Judge approves key endangered species deal

SALMON, Idaho (Reuters) - The U.S. government has until 2018 to decide whether to set aside critical habitat or provide other protections for hundreds of imperiled species, under an agreement approved on Friday by a federal judge.The deal struck in July ...

Gunman kills 4 at Nevada pancake house, shoots self

CARSON CITY, Nev (Reuters) - A man with an assault rifle opened fire at a pancake house in Nevada's capital on Tuesday, killing three National Guard soldiers and a civilian and wounding seven others before killing himself, authorities said.The gunman, in ...

One child killed, five injured when SUV strikes carts

INDIANAPOLIS (Reuters) - A sport utility vehicle struck two horse-drawn carts carrying a group of Amish children on a rural northern Indiana road on Monday, killing one of the youngsters and injuring five others, police said.The accident occurred at about 10 a ...