Funeral held for second Colorado victim; judge cracks down on leaks |
- Funeral held for second Colorado victim; judge cracks down on leaks
- Storms in U.S. Northeast knock out power, ground flights
- Drought diminishes mighty Mississippi, puts heat on Congress
- Sandusky shower victim comes forward, plans suit, lawyers say
- Arkansas wildfire contained, Nebraska fires still raging
- NYC public advocate sues city over soaring small business fines
- Ninety arrested in nationwide synthetic drug crackdown
- Miami weighs "financial urgency" to cut staff costs
- Arizona deputy says risked life for illegal immigrant
- Key Sandusky victim plans to sue Penn State: law firm
- Miami said to declare "financial urgency" in talks
- New York to protect illegal immigrants from fraudsters
- Cyber commander accuses countries of targeting infrastructure
- Economic growth in NY's Brooklyn holds lessons for cities
- Arizona deputy tells court he risked life for Hispanic immigrant
- Drink lobby gears up to fight soda tax plan in California city
- Midday weather update shows minor relief
- Appeals court revives challenge against "no fly" list
- Drought bill may carry mammoth farm bill into law
- Police coalition seeks magazine limits, gun checks
- For blighted soybeans, a little rain goes a long way
- Capital One to pay $12 million settlement to military members
- Fast planting boosts spring wheat prospects: tour
- Exclusive: U.S., Lockheed reach deal on Israeli F-35s
- Penn State could have had four-year death penalty-school spokesman
- House panel approves bill to upgrade Russia trade ties
- House leader says new Iran sanctions could pass next week
- Drought forces lighter barges as Mississippi River drops
- New Hampshire hepatitis C outbreak triggers fears
- Drought diminishes mighty Mississippi, puts heat on Congress
- Storms in U.S. Northeast knock out power, ground flights
- Miami weighs "financial urgency" to cut staff costs
- NYC public advocate sues city over soaring small business fines
- Ninety arrested in nationwide synthetic drug crackdown
- Funeral held for second Colorado victim; judge cracks down on leaks
- Arizona deputy says risked life for illegal immigrant
- Drought bill may carry mammoth farm bill into law
- House panel approves bill to upgrade Russia trade ties
- Key Sandusky victim plans to sue Penn State: law firm
| Funeral held for second Colorado victim; judge cracks down on leaks Posted: 26 Jul 2012 05:31 PM PDT
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| Storms in U.S. Northeast knock out power, ground flights Posted: 26 Jul 2012 06:52 PM PDT
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| Drought diminishes mighty Mississippi, puts heat on Congress Posted: 26 Jul 2012 04:06 PM PDT
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| Sandusky shower victim comes forward, plans suit, lawyers say Posted: 26 Jul 2012 01:21 PM PDT
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| Arkansas wildfire contained, Nebraska fires still raging Posted: 26 Jul 2012 12:06 PM PDT
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| NYC public advocate sues city over soaring small business fines Posted: 26 Jul 2012 06:08 PM PDT NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York City's public advocate, a Democratic mayoral candidate known for his liberal views, on Thursday sued the city to obtain data to determine if soaring fines are hurting small businesses. Public Advocate Bill de Blasio said he has been stonewalled since May in his attempts to investigate whether city agencies - from the Departments of Health to Sanitation - have been guilty of "overzealous enforcement," in an apparent effort to boost how much money the city rakes in each year in fines, according to a complaint in Manhattan state court. ... |
| Ninety arrested in nationwide synthetic drug crackdown Posted: 26 Jul 2012 06:03 PM PDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Federal agents arrested more than 90 people and seized about 5 million packets of synthetic drugs - known on the street as "bath salts," "K2" and "Spice" - in the first U.S. nationwide crackdown on "designer drugs," the Drug Enforcement Administration said on Thursday. The DEA said the haul from multi-agency raids in more than 100 U.S. cities included 4.8 million packets of synthetic cannabis, 167,000 packets of "bath salts" and more than $36 million in cash. ... |
| Miami weighs "financial urgency" to cut staff costs Posted: 26 Jul 2012 06:38 PM PDT MIAMI (Reuters) - Miami officials pushing for $40 million in union concessions weighed on Thursday declaring "financial urgency," an action that would allow the Florida city to unilaterally alter employee contracts, according to a media report. The Miami Herald website on Thursday quoted Miami Mayor Tomas Regalado as saying the declaration would be issued on Thursday by City Manager Johnny Martinez because the savings were needed to balance the city's $485 million operating budget for the next fiscal year. "The unions are not cooperating with the process," Regalado told the Herald. ... |
| Arizona deputy says risked life for illegal immigrant Posted: 26 Jul 2012 05:32 PM PDT PHOENIX (Reuters) - A deputy from a controversial Arizona sheriff's office countered accusations of racial profiling on Thursday, telling a court that he had risked his life to rescue a Latino illegal immigrant from armed kidnappers. Carlos Rangel told a civil trial alleging Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio that, at the behest of federal immigration police, he went undercover to play the role of the immigrant's relative to meet kidnappers, one of whom pointed a gun at him. The kidnappers were arrested and the immigrant was released. ... |
| Key Sandusky victim plans to sue Penn State: law firm Posted: 26 Jul 2012 04:23 PM PDT PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - A man whose 2001 sexual assault by former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky in a locker room shower lay at the heart of the scandal that engulfed the university is suing it for contributing to the abuse, his lawyers said on Thursday. Sandusky was convicted last month of sexually abusing 10 boys over a 15-year period. The man, known as Victim 2, did not testify at the trial, but former graduate assistant coach Mike McQueary testified he had seen Sandusky assaulting a boy about 10 years old in a Penn State locker room shower. ... |
| Miami said to declare "financial urgency" in talks Posted: 26 Jul 2012 02:57 PM PDT MIAMI (Reuters) - Miami officials, who are seeking $40 million in union concessions, plan to declare "financial urgency," which would allow the Florida city to unilaterally alter employee contracts, the Miami Herald's website said on Thursday. Quoting Mayor Tomas Regalado, the newspaper said the declaration would be issued by City Manager Johnny Martinez on Thursday and would yield savings needed to balance the city's $485 million annual operating budget. "The unions are not cooperating with the process," Regalado told the Herald. "We need to have a balanced budget. ... |
| New York to protect illegal immigrants from fraudsters Posted: 26 Jul 2012 03:27 PM PDT NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York state has launched an initiative aimed at protecting illegal immigrants who came to the United States as children, helping them hire lawyers and avoid fraudsters peddling dishonest legal services. The plan comes more than a month after President Barack Obama signed an executive order stopping the deportation of hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants who arrived in the country before the age of 16, have lived here for five years, have no criminal record, are no older than 30 and are either students, high school graduates or military veterans. ... |
| Cyber commander accuses countries of targeting infrastructure Posted: 26 Jul 2012 03:07 PM PDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Unspecified nations played a role in a 17-fold jump in cyber attacks on U.S. infrastructure since 2009, but this does not appear to reflect payback for a reported U.S. role in malicious code known as Stuxnet, the head of the Pentagon's National Security Agency said on Thursday. "I don't see the correlation there at all," Army General Keith Alexander told a security forum in Aspen, Colorado. "I don't see anything that goes to Stuxnet or anything like that." Stuxnet was the first discovered malware designed to subvert industrial systems. ... |
| Economic growth in NY's Brooklyn holds lessons for cities Posted: 26 Jul 2012 04:08 PM PDT NEW YORK (Reuters) - Wall Street may be the financial capital of the United States, but downtown Brooklyn, just across the East River, punches above its economic weight, a report showed Thursday. Growth in private sector employment and wages in downtown Brooklyn outpaced the rest of New York City between 2003 and 2010, according to data analyzed by the New York State Comptroller's office. Wages in downtown Brooklyn grew 48 percent during that time, while wages in New York City's five boroughs grew by 38 percent. ... |
| Arizona deputy tells court he risked life for Hispanic immigrant Posted: 26 Jul 2012 02:43 PM PDT PHOENIX (Reuters) - A deputy from a controversial Arizona sheriff's office fought off accusations of racial profiling by telling a court on Thursday that he had gone as far as risking his life to rescue a Hispanic illegal immigrant from kidnappers. Carlos Rangel told a civil trial alleging Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio and his office engage in racially profiling Latinos that, at the behest of federal immigration police, he played the role of the immigrant's relative to meet kidnappers. They were subsequently arrested and the immigrant was released. ... |
| Drink lobby gears up to fight soda tax plan in California city Posted: 26 Jul 2012 03:24 PM PDT (Reuters) - Beverage industry groups, looking to stop health-conscious Americans from taxing sugary drinks, have launched a national campaign opposing a proposal for a local tax in the city of El Monte, California. The El Monte city council on Tuesday approved a measure that would add a 1 cent tax for every ounce of "sugar sweetened" drinks. The proposal is scheduled to be voted on by city residents in November's election. ... |
| Midday weather update shows minor relief Posted: 26 Jul 2012 01:19 PM PDT
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| Appeals court revives challenge against "no fly" list Posted: 26 Jul 2012 02:16 PM PDT (Reuters) - More than a dozen Muslim Americans, including four veterans of the U.S. armed forces, will be allowed to proceed with a lawsuit over their inclusion on the U.S. government's "no fly" list, under a ruling by a federal appeals court on Thursday. The 15 plaintiffs in the case include 13 U.S. citizens and two legal permanent residents. They deny any links to terrorism and say they learned of their no-fly status when they were blocked from boarding different commercial flights. They have sued to have their names removed from the list. In its ruling, the San Francisco-based 9th U.S. ... |
| Drought bill may carry mammoth farm bill into law Posted: 26 Jul 2012 04:47 PM PDT
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| Police coalition seeks magazine limits, gun checks Posted: 26 Jul 2012 01:35 PM PDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A police lobbying group called on Thursday for wider background checks on gun buyers and a ban on large-capacity magazines in the aftermath of the Colorado theater massacre. The National Law Enforcement Partnership to Prevent Gun Violence urged lawmakers to close a loophole that allows 40 percent of gun purchases, such as those made online or at gun shows, to occur without checks on buyers' backgrounds. Colorado movie theater shooting suspect James Holmes, 24, purchased 6,000 rounds of ammunition over the Internet before the shooting spree. ... |
| For blighted soybeans, a little rain goes a long way Posted: 26 Jul 2012 12:08 PM PDT
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| Capital One to pay $12 million settlement to military members Posted: 26 Jul 2012 01:29 PM PDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Capital One Financial Corp will pay $12 million to settle cases where the bank violated credit protections guaranteed by law to members of the U.S. military, according to a settlement filed in court on Thursday. The settlement covers a wide array of conduct, including improper foreclosures and credit-card interest rates that were above the 6 percent allowed for certain service members. Capital One and U.S. authorities said in a consent order that a bank-ordered independent review identified some of the violations, which date from 2006 to 2011. ... |
| Fast planting boosts spring wheat prospects: tour Posted: 26 Jul 2012 01:38 PM PDT FARGO, North Dakota (Reuters) - Spring wheat potential in the northern U.S. Plains was 8.2 percent higher than 2011 as an early planting protected the crop from harm when temperatures surged during the summer. The 2012 U.S. hard red spring wheat crop was projected to yield 44.9 bushels per acre, up from 41.5 bushels per acre in 2011 and up 7.7 percent from the tour's five-year average of 41.7 bushels per acre, scouts on an annual crop tour said on Thursday. If the tour's yield forecast holds true, U.S. spring wheat production would rise to 524.48 million bushels based on the latest U.S. ... |
| Exclusive: U.S., Lockheed reach deal on Israeli F-35s Posted: 26 Jul 2012 12:57 PM PDT
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| Penn State could have had four-year death penalty-school spokesman Posted: 26 Jul 2012 08:34 AM PDT
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| House panel approves bill to upgrade Russia trade ties Posted: 26 Jul 2012 04:38 PM PDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A key congressional committee on Thursday voted overwhelmingly to lift a Cold War-era restriction on trade with Russia, but the top congressional Republican said President Barack Obama must do more to get the bill passed into law. The White House and business groups want lawmakers to approve the legislation before leaving next week for a month-long recess so U.S. companies can share in the full benefits of Russia's entry in the World Trade Organization on August 22. ... |
| House leader says new Iran sanctions could pass next week Posted: 26 Jul 2012 11:34 AM PDT
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| Drought forces lighter barges as Mississippi River drops Posted: 26 Jul 2012 11:54 AM PDT TUPELO, Mississippi (Reuters) - One year after its waters swelled to historic proportions, the drought-ravaged lower Mississippi River now sits so low that barge operators hauling some $180 billion in goods must lighten their loads for fear of getting stuck. If water levels drop further on this main artery of the U.S. waterway system, prices could rise on the raw commodities commonly shipped by boat - coal, grain, petroleum and steel, to name a few. ... |
| New Hampshire hepatitis C outbreak triggers fears Posted: 26 Jul 2012 11:54 AM PDT BOSTON (Reuters) - Hospitals in several U.S. states are scrambling to check if patients were exposed to the hepatitis C virus by an itinerant medical technician charged last week in connection with an outbreak in New Hampshire. The worker, David Matthew Kwiatkowski, was charged with federal drug crimes. Authorities say the Michigan native stole drugs and contaminated needles while working at New Hampshire's Exeter Hospital Cardiac Catheterization Unit in 2011 and 2012. ... |
| Drought diminishes mighty Mississippi, puts heat on Congress Posted: 26 Jul 2012 04:06 PM PDT
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| Storms in U.S. Northeast knock out power, ground flights Posted: 26 Jul 2012 06:52 PM PDT
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| Miami weighs "financial urgency" to cut staff costs Posted: 26 Jul 2012 06:38 PM PDT MIAMI (Reuters) - Miami officials pushing for $40 million in union concessions weighed on Thursday declaring "financial urgency," an action that would allow the Florida city to unilaterally alter employee contracts, according to a media report. The Miami Herald website on Thursday quoted Miami Mayor Tomas Regalado as saying the declaration would be issued on Thursday by City Manager Johnny Martinez because the savings were needed to balance the city's $485 million operating budget for the next fiscal year. "The unions are not cooperating with the process," Regalado told the Herald. ... |
| NYC public advocate sues city over soaring small business fines Posted: 26 Jul 2012 06:08 PM PDT NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York City's public advocate, a Democratic mayoral candidate known for his liberal views, on Thursday sued the city to obtain data to determine if soaring fines are hurting small businesses. Public Advocate Bill de Blasio said he has been stonewalled since May in his attempts to investigate whether city agencies - from the Departments of Health to Sanitation - have been guilty of "overzealous enforcement," in an apparent effort to boost how much money the city rakes in each year in fines, according to a complaint in Manhattan state court. ... |
| Ninety arrested in nationwide synthetic drug crackdown Posted: 26 Jul 2012 06:03 PM PDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Federal agents arrested more than 90 people and seized about 5 million packets of synthetic drugs - known on the street as "bath salts," "K2" and "Spice" - in the first U.S. nationwide crackdown on "designer drugs," the Drug Enforcement Administration said on Thursday. The DEA said the haul from multi-agency raids in more than 100 U.S. cities included 4.8 million packets of synthetic cannabis, 167,000 packets of "bath salts" and more than $36 million in cash. ... |
| Funeral held for second Colorado victim; judge cracks down on leaks Posted: 26 Jul 2012 05:31 PM PDT
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| Arizona deputy says risked life for illegal immigrant Posted: 26 Jul 2012 05:32 PM PDT PHOENIX (Reuters) - A deputy from a controversial Arizona sheriff's office countered accusations of racial profiling on Thursday, telling a court that he had risked his life to rescue a Latino illegal immigrant from armed kidnappers. Carlos Rangel told a civil trial alleging Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio that, at the behest of federal immigration police, he went undercover to play the role of the immigrant's relative to meet kidnappers, one of whom pointed a gun at him. The kidnappers were arrested and the immigrant was released. ... |
| Drought bill may carry mammoth farm bill into law Posted: 26 Jul 2012 04:47 PM PDT
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| House panel approves bill to upgrade Russia trade ties Posted: 26 Jul 2012 04:38 PM PDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A key congressional committee on Thursday voted overwhelmingly to lift a Cold War-era restriction on trade with Russia, but the top congressional Republican said President Barack Obama must do more to get the bill passed into law. The White House and business groups want lawmakers to approve the legislation before leaving next week for a month-long recess so U.S. companies can share in the full benefits of Russia's entry in the World Trade Organization on August 22. ... |
| Key Sandusky victim plans to sue Penn State: law firm Posted: 26 Jul 2012 04:23 PM PDT PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - A man whose 2001 sexual assault by former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky in a locker room shower lay at the heart of the scandal that engulfed the university is suing it for contributing to the abuse, his lawyers said on Thursday. Sandusky was convicted last month of sexually abusing 10 boys over a 15-year period. The man, known as Victim 2, did not testify at the trial, but former graduate assistant coach Mike McQueary testified he had seen Sandusky assaulting a boy about 10 years old in a Penn State locker room shower. ... |
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