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- Obama pledges federal aid on Colorado wildfire visit
- Justice Department will not prosecute Holder over gun scandal
- Bernard Madoff brother pleads guilty in Ponzi case
- Man dies after arson conviction, self-poisoning suspected
- Minnesota asks for U.S. aid for flood disaster
- Ex-U.S. agent who helped cartels gets 30 months in prison
- Seattle's new landmark Great Wheel opening on waterfront
- Accused Fort Hood gunman denied delay in trial
- Judge gives a win to Wall Street in Alabama bankruptcy
- New Jersey budget signed after some vetoes
- Pentagon chief urges Congress to block new defense cuts
- Dangerous heat smothers third of U.S., suspected in deaths
- NY state sues former head of abortion group over lavish spending
- U.S. investor groups oppose "condemn" mortgage fix
- Online school can't open without North Carolina OK: judge
- U.S. Presbyterians, Episcopals debate gay ceremonies
- New York City weighs crackdown on manhole cover theft
- Congress passes bill for transport jobs, student loans
- Florida judge defers ruling on bond for Trayvon Martin killer
- Fort Bragg shooting suspect in critical condition
- Senate confirms top nuclear power regulator
- Post regulator denies union bid to block changes
- Bankruptcy judge curbs Alabama county's cash use
- Con Ed workers threaten strike as Big Apple faces big bake
- Supreme Court upholds Obama's healthcare law
- New York Amish vaccinate horses against deadly brain disease
- TransCanada wins second of three permits for Keystone line
- Flesh-eating bacteria patient to leave Georgia hospital
- South Carolina governor cleared in state House ethics case
- San Francisco mayor and sheriff face off in ethics hearing
- Students who viciously bullied bus monitor suspended for a year
- Minnesota asks for U.S. aid for flood disaster
- Ex-U.S. agent who helped cartels gets 30 months in prison
- Obama pledges federal aid on Colorado wildfire visit
- New Jersey budget signed after some vetoes
- Judge gives a win to Wall Street in Alabama bankruptcy
- NY state sues former head of abortion group over lavish spending
- U.S. "Genius" visa attracts entrepreneurs and Playmates
- Justice Department will not prosecute Holder over gun scandal
| Obama pledges federal aid on Colorado wildfire visit Posted: 29 Jun 2012 04:43 PM PDT
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| Justice Department will not prosecute Holder over gun scandal Posted: 29 Jun 2012 04:06 PM PDT
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| Bernard Madoff brother pleads guilty in Ponzi case Posted: 29 Jun 2012 12:37 PM PDT
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| Man dies after arson conviction, self-poisoning suspected Posted: 29 Jun 2012 02:06 PM PDT
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| Minnesota asks for U.S. aid for flood disaster Posted: 29 Jun 2012 05:57 PM PDT MINNEAPOLIS (Reuters) - Minnesota Governor Mark Dayton on Friday asked the federal government for disaster aid following flooding that caused more than $100 million in road and infrastructure damage that could rank it as one of the state's worst-ever disasters. Federal officials have been doing damage assessments in 13 Minnesota counties and the Fond du Lac tribal nation after the deluge that struck the city of Duluth and other areas last week. In Dayton's letter seeking federal help, the Democrat wrote: "The impacts of this disaster, which are still being assessed, are... ... |
| Ex-U.S. agent who helped cartels gets 30 months in prison Posted: 29 Jun 2012 05:56 PM PDT TUCSON, Arizona (Reuters) - A former U.S. federal immigration agent was sentenced to 30 months in prison on Friday for accessing police databases and passing on sensitive information to family members with ties to Mexican drug cartels. Jovana Deas was accused of illegally obtaining and disseminating classified government documents while working as a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) special agent in Nogales, Ariz., a city on the border with Mexico. She also was charged with obstruction and lying to investigators. ... |
| Seattle's new landmark Great Wheel opening on waterfront Posted: 29 Jun 2012 12:54 PM PDT
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| Accused Fort Hood gunman denied delay in trial Posted: 29 Jun 2012 03:02 PM PDT
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| Judge gives a win to Wall Street in Alabama bankruptcy Posted: 29 Jun 2012 04:17 PM PDT (Reuters) - The judge in the landmark bankruptcy of Alabama's Jefferson County sided with Wall Street creditors on Friday and sharply limited how the cash-strapped local government can use funds generated by its sewer system. The ruling, in a months-long court dispute, aggravates a cash crunch for the county that may exhaust its general fund within three months. In the dispute over the size of payments to owners of $3.2 billion of sewer-system debt, U.S. ... |
| New Jersey budget signed after some vetoes Posted: 29 Jun 2012 04:38 PM PDT (Reuters) - Republican New Jersey Governor Chris Christie signed a $31.7 billion state budget on Friday for fiscal year 2013 after stripping out spending items that the Democrat-controlled legislature had passed. While his budget is the same size as the one lawmakers sent to him this week, he vetoed $361 million of their spending proposals. Christie said his budget calls for a $1 billion payment to the state's pension system and will maintain a surplus in state coffers of more than $600 million. ... |
| Pentagon chief urges Congress to block new defense cuts Posted: 29 Jun 2012 03:43 PM PDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Defense Secretary Leon Panetta urged Congress on Friday to act soon to stop a new round of defense budget reductions next year, saying the threat of $500 billion more in cuts leaves military families and defense workers under a cloud of uncertainty. "Congress can't keep kicking the can down the road or avoiding dealing with the debt and deficit problems that we face," Panetta told a news conference. "The men and women of this department and their families need to know with certainty that we will meet our commitments to them and to their families. ... |
| Dangerous heat smothers third of U.S., suspected in deaths Posted: 29 Jun 2012 04:04 PM PDT NASHVILLE, Tennessee (Reuters) - Temperatures in the triple digits were causing misery in the eastern and southern United States on Friday, with both Columbia, South Carolina and Nashville, Tennessee reaching all-time records of 109 degrees Fahrenheit. The heat is suspected in the deaths of three young children. Marked in pink on a Weather Underground map of the United States, a heat advisory spread like a rash over a third of the country, from Nebraska east to New York and south to Florida. ... |
| NY state sues former head of abortion group over lavish spending Posted: 29 Jun 2012 04:15 PM PDT NEW YORK (Reuters) - The New York state Attorney General's office is suing the former head of the New York chapter of the nation's largest abortion-rights advocacy group, accusing her of using more than $250,000 in charitable funds to finance a lavish lifestyle. The lawsuit, filed in New York state Supreme Court on Thursday, came a year after Kelli Conlin pleaded guilty to criminal charges brought by the Manhattan district attorney. She resigned as president of NARAL Pro-Choice New York in January 2011. ... |
| U.S. investor groups oppose "condemn" mortgage fix Posted: 29 Jun 2012 02:59 PM PDT (Reuters) - Some of the most powerful mortgage investors in the United States are lining up against a plan by several California local governments to forcibly purchase distressed mortgages to keep struggling residents in their homes. Eighteen investment trade groups - including the Association of Mortgage Investors, Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association, American Bankers Association and the Investment Company Institute - sent a letter late Thursday warning the plan could prove counterproductive by scaring away future mortgage financing in those areas. ... |
| Online school can't open without North Carolina OK: judge Posted: 29 Jun 2012 03:00 PM PDT RALEIGH, North Carolina (Reuters) - A judge said on Friday that a private company cannot open the first online charter school in North Carolina this fall unless it has the approval of a state agency. Wake County Superior Court Judge Abraham Penn Jones ruled that the State Board of Education has final authority to evaluate and approve applications for charter schools, including cyber schools. He said an administrative law judge had overstepped his authority by approving the school. ... |
| U.S. Presbyterians, Episcopals debate gay ceremonies Posted: 29 Jun 2012 02:18 PM PDT PITTSBURGH (Reuters) - Two Protestant churches are set to review policies on same-sex marriages, as popular opinion moves toward favoring such unions and the growing number of states allowing them creates a dilemma for church leaders. The Presbyterian Church U.S.A. opened its General Assembly on Friday, a biennial gathering to review church policy, and next week church leaders are expected to consider their response to the establishment of civil gay marriage in six U.S. states. ... |
| New York City weighs crackdown on manhole cover theft Posted: 29 Jun 2012 02:40 PM PDT NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York City is trying to crack down on one of its stranger crimes: the theft of thousands of manhole covers. At a hearing on Friday to study ways to curtail the thievery, officials proposed, among other measures, a new law that would make stealing a manhole cover punishable by a minimum fine of $2,500 with up to 30 days in jail. The current fine is $1,000. Since 2009, from 1,300 to 1,600 covers have gone missing each year, James Roberts, deputy commissioner of the bureau of water and sewer operations, said at the hearing. More than 370 have disappeared so far this year. ... |
| Congress passes bill for transport jobs, student loans Posted: 29 Jun 2012 12:10 PM PDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Congress gave final approval on Friday to a massive job-creating U.S. transportation bill that under a bipartisan deal will also keep interest rates low for millions of federal student loans and maintain federal flood insurance. The Republican-led House of Representatives and Democratic-led Senate passed the measure on back-to-back votes, clearing the way for President Barack Obama to sign it into law. ... |
| Florida judge defers ruling on bond for Trayvon Martin killer Posted: 29 Jun 2012 10:49 AM PDT SANFORD, Florida (Reuters) - George Zimmerman, the neighborhood watch volunteer charged with killing unarmed black teenager Trayvon Martin, was back in court on Friday for a bond hearing that ended without a ruling. Circuit Judge Kenneth Lester adjourned the hearing without a decision. He was expected to issue a written ruling later, after reviewing documents and other materials submitted by Zimmerman's lawyers. Zimmerman is charged in the shooting death of 17-year-old Martin during a confrontation in a gated community in the central Florida city of Sanford on February 26. ... |
| Fort Bragg shooting suspect in critical condition Posted: 29 Jun 2012 01:55 PM PDT (Reuters) - A soldier at the Fort Bragg, North Carolina Army base suspected of killing one member of his unit, wounding another and then turning the gun on himself was in critical condition, the Army base said in a statement on Friday. The alleged shooter, an Army specialist, was facing court martial for allegedly stealing a tool box worth nearly $2,000 from the motor pool, and could have been dishonorably discharged if found guilty, an Army official said on Thursday. ... |
| Senate confirms top nuclear power regulator Posted: 29 Jun 2012 01:38 PM PDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate on Friday confirmed geologist Allison Macfarlane, an expert on how to store radioactive waste from power plants, to head the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Macfarlane will serve out the year left in the term of Gregory Jaczko, who announced his resignation last month after being publicly criticized by fellow commissioners as being abrasive. At a hearing in mid-June, Macfarlane pledged to treat her colleagues with respect and ensure the five-member commission operates smoothly. ... |
| Post regulator denies union bid to block changes Posted: 29 Jun 2012 12:26 PM PDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Postal Service's regulator has rejected an attempt by a postal workers' union to block changes to mail delivery set to take effect next week, the Postal Regulatory Commission said on Friday. The mail agency said in May it would begin this summer consolidating operations at mail processing plants, with about 140 facilities to be closed or consolidated by February 2013. As part of the cost-cutting steps that begin July 1, the Postal Service would shrink the area in which customers can expect mail to be delivered the next day. ... |
| Bankruptcy judge curbs Alabama county's cash use Posted: 29 Jun 2012 12:14 PM PDT (Reuters) - The judge in the landmark bankruptcy of Alabama's Jefferson County sided with Wall Street creditors on Friday and sharply limited how the cash-strapped county government can use funds generated by its sewer system. Ruling in a months-long court dispute over the size of payments to owners of about $3.2 billion of sewer-system debt, U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Thomas Bennett said the county cannot pay legal fees and set aside charges for depreciation and amortization from net operating revenues owed to creditors. ... |
| Con Ed workers threaten strike as Big Apple faces big bake Posted: 29 Jun 2012 11:50 AM PDT NEW YORK (Reuters) - With a second heat wave poised to strike New York City this weekend, union workers at power company Con Edison may go out on strike, which could leave consumers hot and bothered if their air conditioners don't turn on. Union negotiators and Consolidated Edison Inc were still far apart on negotiations for a new contract on Friday, said John Melia, a spokesman for the union. He said talks were not going well and suggested if there was not a strike, the union feared the company could lock the workers out. Con Edison declined to comment on the possibility of a lockout. ... |
| Supreme Court upholds Obama's healthcare law Posted: 29 Jun 2012 07:18 AM PDT
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| New York Amish vaccinate horses against deadly brain disease Posted: 29 Jun 2012 12:36 PM PDT ALBANY, New York (Reuters) - Amish farmers, whose beliefs stop them from inoculating their children but not their horses, thronged a first-ever free veterinary vaccination clinic this week to fend off a disease that has killed a dozen horses and a four-year-old girl. Demand for the vaccine against Eastern Equine Encephalitis, the mosquito-borne disease that attacks the brain, was so high at the two-day state-funded clinic that veterinarians vaccinated nearly 40 horses on Thursday and were expected to treat another 150 horses on Friday. ... |
| TransCanada wins second of three permits for Keystone line Posted: 29 Jun 2012 12:22 PM PDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers granted TransCanada Corp a second permit for the southern section of the Keystone XL crude pipeline late Thursday, but the third and final nod for the segment is delayed. TransCanada wants to build the Canada-to-Texas pipeline in stages after President Barack Obama rejected the overall project on environmental and water supply concerns about its route through Nebraska. In March, Obama threw his support behind the southern half of the line, which would drain a glut of oil in the U.S. mid-section fed mostly by the oil boom in North Dakota. ... |
| Flesh-eating bacteria patient to leave Georgia hospital Posted: 29 Jun 2012 11:51 AM PDT ATLANTA (Reuters) - The Georgia graduate student who just weeks ago was fighting for her life after contracting a rare flesh-eating bacterial infection will be released from the hospital on Monday to continue her recovery at a rehabilitation center, her father said on Friday. Aimee Copeland, 24, has undergone amputations of her left leg at the hip, both hands and her remaining foot after being diagnosed with necrotizing fasciitis, a bacterial infection that can destroy muscles, skin and tissue. ... |
| South Carolina governor cleared in state House ethics case Posted: 29 Jun 2012 10:30 AM PDT CHARLESTON, South Carolina (Reuters) - South Carolina lawmakers on Friday cleared Republican Governor Nikki Haley of ethics charges that accused her of illegally lobbying on behalf of her employers while a member of the legislature. The Republican-led House of Representatives' Ethics Committee voted to dismiss the charges during a private meeting. The decision came after the panel conducted a public hearing on Thursday in response to allegations stemming from Haley's prior work as a business development consultant for an engineering firm and a fundraiser for a hospital foundation. ... |
| San Francisco mayor and sheriff face off in ethics hearing Posted: 29 Jun 2012 07:27 PM PDT SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - The San Francisco sheriff fighting to keep his job after being convicted in a spousal-abuse case and the mayor who is striving to have him dismissed faced off on Friday in testimony before a city ethics commission. The back-to-back appearance of the two men shed little if any new light on the dispute that has rocked San Francisco's close-knit political establishment. ... |
| Students who viciously bullied bus monitor suspended for a year Posted: 29 Jun 2012 07:26 PM PDT NEW YORK (Reuters) - Four New York seventh graders whose bullying of a bus monitor grandmother went viral on YouTube have been suspended from school for a year, a school district official said on Friday. The students will be sent to a non-school facility where they will be tutored academically. They will be required to complete 50 hours of community service with senior citizens and will receive formal behavioral training, according to a statement from the head of the Greece Central School District in upstate New York. ... |
| Minnesota asks for U.S. aid for flood disaster Posted: 29 Jun 2012 05:57 PM PDT MINNEAPOLIS (Reuters) - Minnesota Governor Mark Dayton on Friday asked the federal government for disaster aid following flooding that caused more than $100 million in road and infrastructure damage that could rank it as one of the state's worst-ever disasters. Federal officials have been doing damage assessments in 13 Minnesota counties and the Fond du Lac tribal nation after the deluge that struck the city of Duluth and other areas last week. In Dayton's letter seeking federal help, the Democrat wrote: "The impacts of this disaster, which are still being assessed, are... ... |
| Ex-U.S. agent who helped cartels gets 30 months in prison Posted: 29 Jun 2012 05:56 PM PDT TUCSON, Arizona (Reuters) - A former U.S. federal immigration agent was sentenced to 30 months in prison on Friday for accessing police databases and passing on sensitive information to family members with ties to Mexican drug cartels. Jovana Deas was accused of illegally obtaining and disseminating classified government documents while working as a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) special agent in Nogales, Ariz., a city on the border with Mexico. She also was charged with obstruction and lying to investigators. ... |
| Obama pledges federal aid on Colorado wildfire visit Posted: 29 Jun 2012 04:43 PM PDT
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| New Jersey budget signed after some vetoes Posted: 29 Jun 2012 04:38 PM PDT (Reuters) - Republican New Jersey Governor Chris Christie signed a $31.7 billion state budget on Friday for fiscal year 2013 after stripping out spending items that the Democrat-controlled legislature had passed. While his budget is the same size as the one lawmakers sent to him this week, he vetoed $361 million of their spending proposals. Christie said his budget calls for a $1 billion payment to the state's pension system and will maintain a surplus in state coffers of more than $600 million. ... |
| Judge gives a win to Wall Street in Alabama bankruptcy Posted: 29 Jun 2012 04:17 PM PDT (Reuters) - The judge in the landmark bankruptcy of Alabama's Jefferson County sided with Wall Street creditors on Friday and sharply limited how the cash-strapped local government can use funds generated by its sewer system. The ruling, in a months-long court dispute, aggravates a cash crunch for the county that may exhaust its general fund within three months. In the dispute over the size of payments to owners of $3.2 billion of sewer-system debt, U.S. ... |
| NY state sues former head of abortion group over lavish spending Posted: 29 Jun 2012 04:15 PM PDT NEW YORK (Reuters) - The New York state Attorney General's office is suing the former head of the New York chapter of the nation's largest abortion-rights advocacy group, accusing her of using more than $250,000 in charitable funds to finance a lavish lifestyle. The lawsuit, filed in New York state Supreme Court on Thursday, came a year after Kelli Conlin pleaded guilty to criminal charges brought by the Manhattan district attorney. She resigned as president of NARAL Pro-Choice New York in January 2011. ... |
| U.S. "Genius" visa attracts entrepreneurs and Playmates Posted: 28 Jun 2012 10:12 PM PDT
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| Justice Department will not prosecute Holder over gun scandal Posted: 29 Jun 2012 04:06 PM PDT
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