AMR union to vote next week on proposal: sources |
- AMR union to vote next week on proposal: sources
- Al Qaeda challenges with lone wolf tactics: Canada
- Occupy protester's tweets fair game for prosecutors: judge
- California measure to repeal death penalty qualifies for ballot
- Man stops policeman, confesses to Oklahoma murder 25 years ago
- Arizona House votes to demand return of federally owned lands
- Oakland police change crowd control policies after Occupy
- Trayvon Martin's killer leaves Florida jail
- Case of long missing New York boy still a mystery
- Winter returns with a blast as snow pounds U.S. Northeast
- Virginia woman wins $1 million - twice in same lottery
- Prosecutors call John Edwards manipulative, ambitious
- Two arrested for booby trapping Utah hiking trail
- New Jersey troopers suspended in "joyride" scandal
- Washington sues Florida city over firefighter tests
- Search for Arizona girl, 6, turns back to her Tucson home
- Ilinois revenue growth fails to dent fiscal mountain
- No bail for Texas nurse accused of killing woman, kidnapping baby
- Mexican immigration to U.S. at a standstill: report
- New York's Nassau County lease of sewer plant faces hurdles
- AMR fires opening shot in court battle with workers
- Complaint tests conservative group's charity status
- U.S. can't afford to give away air travelers' lost change
- Search for 6-year-old Arizona girl turns back to her Tucson home
- Mexican immigration to U.S. at a standstill: report
- Without reforms, U.S. retirees to face dwindling funds
- MetLife in multistate deal over "Death Master" use
- Ex-baseball ace Clemens "trapped" in web of deceit - prosecutor
- NY insurance probe forces $262 million in payments
- U.S. watchdog blasts Medicare quality insurance project
- California measure to repeal death penalty qualifies for ballot
- Arizona House votes to demand return of federally owned lands
- Man stops policeman, confesses to Oklahoma murder 25 years ago
- Oakland police change crowd control policies after Occupy
- Two arrested for booby trapping Utah hiking trail
- Trayvon Martin's killer leaves Florida jail
- City rejects resignation of top cop in Trayvon Martin shooting
- AMR fires opening shot in court battle with workers
- AMR union to vote next week on proposal: sources
- AMR fires opening shot in court battle with workers
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| Al Qaeda challenges with lone wolf tactics: Canada Posted:
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| Occupy protester's tweets fair game for prosecutors: judge Posted: NEW YORK (Reuters) - An Occupy Wall Street protester, arrested during last fall's mass protest on the Brooklyn Bridge, has lost his bid to stop prosecutors from subpoenaing his Twitter records. Malcolm Harris was among 700 demonstrators arrested on October 1, during a march over the span to protest economic inequality. Prosecutors had been expected to use the tweets to challenge Harris' "anticipated defense" that police officers led protesters onto the bridge before arresting them, the judge said. At the time police said demonstrators were arrested for blocking traffic on the bridge. ... |
| California measure to repeal death penalty qualifies for ballot Posted: LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - California voters will decide in November whether to repeal the state's death penalty after activists collected the more than half a million signatures needed to put the measure on the ballot, the Secretary of State's office said on Monday. The ballot initiative, which focuses on the high cost of the death penalty, would abolish capital punishment as the maximum sentence in murder convictions and replace it with life imprisonment. ... |
| Man stops policeman, confesses to Oklahoma murder 25 years ago Posted: OKLAHOMA CITY (Reuters) - A homeless man walked up to a policeman in Montana last week and confessed to involvement in the murder of an Oklahoma county commissioner 25 years ago, authorities said on Monday. "He just said he wanted to get something off of his chest," said Stan Florence, director of the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation. "I think it was just one of those things he carried with him for 25 years and wanted to talk to somebody about it." The man, Clifford W. ... |
| Arizona House votes to demand return of federally owned lands Posted: PHOENIX (Reuters) - Arizona lawmakers on Monday passed legislation demanding the U.S. government relinquish to the state millions of acres of federal territory, in the latest rekindling of a "sagebrush rebellion" over control of public lands in the West. Without debate, the Republican-dominated Arizona House of Representatives easily passed a measure seeking the return of roughly 48,000 square miles of government-owned acreage in the Grand Canyon state by 2015. The bill, approved on a 35-15 vote, now goes to the state Senate for final passage. ... |
| Oakland police change crowd control policies after Occupy Posted: (Reuters) - Oakland's Police Department will significantly change how it trains officers to control large crowds following criticism over its practices during anti-Wall Street protests last year that sometimes erupted into violence, the department said on Monday. "It is our duty to protect public safety and at the same time balance the free speech rights of individual protesters with the rights of non-protesting residents," Police Chief Howard Jordan said in a statement. ... |
| Trayvon Martin's killer leaves Florida jail Posted:
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| Case of long missing New York boy still a mystery Posted:
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| Winter returns with a blast as snow pounds U.S. Northeast Posted:
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| Virginia woman wins $1 million - twice in same lottery Posted: (Reuters) - A Virginia woman found out on April 7 she won $1 million in a lottery drawing. And then she won again. Virginia Fike of Berryville, Virginia, had the good luck to buy not one but two lottery tickets from a truck stop that both turned out to be $1 million winners, matching five of the six Powerball numbers. Lottery officials presented her with a $2 million check on Friday. Fike said she found out that she had won - and won again - while sitting in a hospital room with her mother, according to a statement distributed by the Virginia lottery. ... |
| Prosecutors call John Edwards manipulative, ambitious Posted:
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| Two arrested for booby trapping Utah hiking trail Posted: SALT LAKE CITY (Reuters) - Two men have been arrested on suspicion of setting a couple of crude but potentially deadly booby traps made from sharpened sticks and rocks along a popular Utah hiking trail, police said on Monday. A U.S. Forest Service officer on foot patrol discovered the devices earlier this month after spotting a trip wire on the ground. The traps were crafted from sharpened tree limbs, rock and rope near a fort-like shelter on the Big Springs Trail in Provo Canyon, about 35 miles south of Salt Lake City. "This looks like something done just for the sake of hurting someone ... ... |
| New Jersey troopers suspended in "joyride" scandal Posted: NEW YORK (Reuters) - Two New Jersey state troopers have been suspended without pay in connection with accusations that police escorted a high-speed caravan of unmarked sports cars down the state's Garden State Parkway, the state attorney general said on Monday. Witnesses reported seeing two State Police cars escorting dozens of Ferraris, Lamborghinis and Porsches at speeds exceeding 100 miles per hour on March 30, and weaving across the highway's three lanes, according to a report published on Sunday by the Star-Ledger newspaper. ... |
| Washington sues Florida city over firefighter tests Posted: MIAMI (Reuters) - The Justice Department sued the city of Jacksonville, Florida, on Monday, claiming its use of written tests to determine promotions in the city's fire department discriminates against African-Americans. The lawsuit followed a more than two-year investigation examining Jacksonville's record of promoting African-Americans for the ranks of lieutenant, captain, district chief and engineer dating back to 2004. It came after a separate lawsuit filed last year by two dozen Jacksonville firefighters challenging the city's promotional process. ... |
| Search for Arizona girl, 6, turns back to her Tucson home Posted: TUCSON, Arizona (Reuters) - The search for a missing 6-year-old Arizona girl who authorities said may have been snatched from her bedroom in Tucson entered its third day on Monday as search dogs shifted investigators' attention back to the child's home. The parents of first-grader Isabel Mercedes Celis told detectives she was last seen on Friday night when they tucked her into bed, and was found to have vanished when a family member entered her room the next morning to awaken her, police said. ... |
| Ilinois revenue growth fails to dent fiscal mountain Posted:
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| No bail for Texas nurse accused of killing woman, kidnapping baby Posted: CONROE, Texas (Reuters) - A judge on Monday denied bail for a nurse accused of fatally shooting a young mother and abducting her baby outside a doctor's office near Houston last week. District Attorney Brett Ligon said he was still considering whether to seek the death penalty against Verna D. McClain, 30, charged with murdering mother Kala Golden, 28, and kidnapping her 3-day-old baby Keegan Schuchardt on April 17. The baby was found unharmed that same evening at a home 10 miles away. District Court Judge Fred Edwards said that the crimes McClain is accused of could warrant the death penalty. ... |
| Mexican immigration to U.S. at a standstill: report Posted: PHOENIX (Reuters) - The flow of immigrants into the United States from Mexico has come to a standstill and may have reversed, bringing a stunning end to a four-decade surge of newcomers from the country's southern neighbor, according to a study released on Monday. The report by the non-partisan Pew Hispanic Center found that an influx that brought 12 million immigrants to the United States since the 1970s, more than half of whom came illegally, began to slow five years ago and may have reversed in the past two years. ... |
| New York's Nassau County lease of sewer plant faces hurdles Posted: (Reuters) - New York's Nassau County taps the debt market this week, with plans to lease its sewer system for nearly $1 billion to help fill a budget hole running into obstacles. Nassau's severe and lasting fiscal problems led the state to set up a control board in 2000, preventing a bankruptcy. Since then Nassau, on Long Island's western half and one of the nation's wealthiest counties, has continued to struggle. It faces a $310 million deficit in 2012. ... |
| AMR fires opening shot in court battle with workers Posted:
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| Complaint tests conservative group's charity status Posted: WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A conservative group that promotes legislation in state capitals is mainly a lobbying organization and should not benefit from a special tax status meant for charities, a liberal group says in a complaint to the U.S. Internal Revenue Service. The complaint, released on Monday, challenges the tax-law status of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) as a not-for-profit 501(c)(3) charity. That status lets ALEC avoid paying taxes and lets its supporters deduct their contributions. ... |
| U.S. can't afford to give away air travelers' lost change Posted:
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| Search for 6-year-old Arizona girl turns back to her Tucson home Posted:
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| Mexican immigration to U.S. at a standstill: report Posted:
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| Without reforms, U.S. retirees to face dwindling funds Posted:
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| MetLife in multistate deal over "Death Master" use Posted:
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| Ex-baseball ace Clemens "trapped" in web of deceit - prosecutor Posted:
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| NY insurance probe forces $262 million in payments Posted: (Reuters) - A New York investigation into how life insurance companies used lists of recent deaths has led to an extra $262.2 million in payments to people nationwide, the governor's office said on Monday. The New York Department of Financial Services has been looking for months at how insurers used the Social Security Administration's "death master" list. ... |
| U.S. watchdog blasts Medicare quality insurance project Posted: WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Medicare, the U.S. healthcare program for the elderly, is spending $8.3 billion on a test project that is supposed to improve the quality of private health coverage but has mainly rewarded mediocre insurance plans, a government watchdog said on Monday. A report by the Government Accountability Office, a nonpartisan investigative arm of Congress, recommends canceling the Medicare Advantage quality bonus payment initiative. The three-year project is seen as the largest-scale test of an effort to improve Medicare services to date. The watchdog agency said the U.S. ... |
| California measure to repeal death penalty qualifies for ballot Posted: LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - California voters will decide in November whether to repeal the state's death penalty after activists collected the more than half a million signatures needed to put the measure on the ballot, the Secretary of State's office said on Monday. The ballot initiative, which focuses on the high cost of the death penalty, would abolish capital punishment as the maximum sentence in murder convictions and replace it with life imprisonment. ... |
| Arizona House votes to demand return of federally owned lands Posted: PHOENIX (Reuters) - Arizona lawmakers on Monday passed legislation demanding the U.S. government relinquish to the state millions of acres of federal territory, in the latest rekindling of a "sagebrush rebellion" over control of public lands in the West. Without debate, the Republican-dominated Arizona House of Representatives easily passed a measure seeking the return of roughly 48,000 square miles of government-owned acreage in the Grand Canyon state by 2015. The bill, approved on a 35-15 vote, now goes to the state Senate for final passage. ... |
| Man stops policeman, confesses to Oklahoma murder 25 years ago Posted: OKLAHOMA CITY (Reuters) - A homeless man walked up to a policeman in Montana last week and confessed to involvement in the murder of an Oklahoma county commissioner 25 years ago, authorities said on Monday. "He just said he wanted to get something off of his chest," said Stan Florence, director of the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation. "I think it was just one of those things he carried with him for 25 years and wanted to talk to somebody about it." The man, Clifford W. ... |
| Oakland police change crowd control policies after Occupy Posted: (Reuters) - Oakland's Police Department will significantly change how it trains officers to control large crowds following criticism over its practices during anti-Wall Street protests last year that sometimes erupted into violence, the department said on Monday. "It is our duty to protect public safety and at the same time balance the free speech rights of individual protesters with the rights of non-protesting residents," Police Chief Howard Jordan said in a statement. ... |
| Two arrested for booby trapping Utah hiking trail Posted: SALT LAKE CITY (Reuters) - Two men have been arrested on suspicion of setting a couple of crude but potentially deadly booby traps made from sharpened sticks and rocks along a popular Utah hiking trail, police said on Monday. A U.S. Forest Service officer on foot patrol discovered the devices earlier this month after spotting a trip wire on the ground. The traps were crafted from sharpened tree limbs, rock and rope near a fort-like shelter on the Big Springs Trail in Provo Canyon, about 35 miles south of Salt Lake City. "This looks like something done just for the sake of hurting someone ... ... |
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| City rejects resignation of top cop in Trayvon Martin shooting Posted: ORLANDO, Florida (Reuters) - The city commission in Sanford, Florida, rejected the resignation of the police chief who had stepped aside amid withering criticism over his department's investigation into the shooting death of unarmed black teenager Trayvon Martin. Sanford Police Bill Lee, on leave since his temporary resignation announced March 22, had been set to resign permanently as of midnight under a separation agreement submitted to him by Sanford City Manager Norton Bonaparte. ... |
| AMR fires opening shot in court battle with workers Posted: NEW YORK (Reuters) - American Airlines on Monday kicked off a week-long court hearing on its bid to abandon union contracts, telling a judge that its bankrupt parent, AMR Corp, cannot survive without major concessions from its labor force. Hundreds of lawyers, airline workers and others filled the courtroom and two overflow rooms in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Manhattan for the start of the hearing, as other unionized workers rallied outside the courthouse. Cordoned off by police, the workers held signs and chanted for fairer work terms and against AMR's plan to cut about 13,000 union jobs. ... |
| AMR union to vote next week on proposal: sources Posted:
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| AMR fires opening shot in court battle with workers Posted:
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