Secretary of State Clinton hospitalized with blood clot

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• Secretary of State Clinton hospitalized with blood clot
• Nine killed, more than 20 hurt in Oregon bus crash: state police
• Parking dispute may have led to Maine shooting deaths: police
• Obama endorses gay marriage proposal in Illinois
• Woman dies in car crash near Kennedy airport
• Pro-marijuana campaign looks ahead after 2012 victories
• Senate, House agriculture committees in deal to avert milk price spike
• Obama skeptical of NRA proposal to put more guns in schools
• Obama touts Hagel, says no decision on defense secretary job
• Storms on U.S. Plains stir memories of the "Dust Bowl"
• Michigan hospital blazes trail in fight against fungal meningitis
• Five killed, 20 injured in Oregon bus crash: state police
• EPA faces legal battles, might take easy confirmation road
• American Airlines pilots approve MOU for agreements under merger

Secretary of State Clinton hospitalized with blood clot Posted: 30 Dec 2012 06:27 PM PST WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was admitted to a New York hospital on Sunday with a blood clot linked to a concussion she suffered earlier this month, the State Department said in an announcement that looked sure to stir up speculation over the health of one of America's best-known political figures. Clinton, 65, has been out of the public spotlight since mid-December, when officials said she suffered a concussion after fainting due to a stomach virus. ...

Nine killed, more than 20 hurt in Oregon bus crash: state police Posted: 30 Dec 2012 05:05 PM PST PORTLAND, Oregon (Reuters) - Nine people were killed and at least 20 others injured on Sunday when a charter bus headed to Canada from Las Vegas skidded off an icy highway and crashed down an embankment in northeastern Oregon. The Oregon State Police said a preliminary investigation showed the charter bus, carrying about 40 people en route to Vancouver, British Columbia, "lost control on the snow/ice covered westbound lanes of Interstate 84" near Pendleton. The bus crashed through a guardrail and went down an embankment of around 200 feet. ...

Parking dispute may have led to Maine shooting deaths: police Posted: 30 Dec 2012 04:11 PM PST CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts (Reuters) - A dispute between neighbors over street parking may have led to the shooting deaths of two Maine teenagers, authorities said on Sunday after charging a 74-year-old man with murder in connection with the incident. Derrick Thompson, 19, and his girlfriend, Alivia Welch, 18, were killed on Saturday night in their apartment inside a two-unit home in Biddeford, Maine, about 15 miles southwest of Portland, state police spokesman Steve McCausland said. Thompson's mother, Susan Johnson, 44, who reported the shootings to authorities shortly after 7 p.m. ...

Obama endorses gay marriage proposal in Illinois Posted: 30 Dec 2012 03:43 PM PST (Reuters) - President Obama is endorsing a proposal by the Illinois legislature to legalize gay marriage, a White House spokesman told Reuters on Sunday. It's an unusual move by a president - most of whom rarely weigh in on state legislative matters. Obama served in the Illinois state senate. Obama, who said earlier this year that he supports same-sex marriage, believes "it's wrong to prevent couples who are in loving, committed relationships and want to marry, from doing so," said White House spokesman Shin Inouye. ...

Woman dies in car crash near Kennedy airport Posted: 30 Dec 2012 01:07 PM PST NEW YORK (Reuters) - A woman was killed and three other people were injured when a car sped off the road not far from New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport early on Sunday, police said. The driver, who sustained minor injuries, was in police custody but no charges have been announced, said a spokeswoman for the New York Police Department. Police were called at about 4:30 a.m. with reports of a car in the water, and concluded that the driver had lost control of the vehicle. A female passenger, 25-year-old Dominique Jamison, was pronounced dead at Jamaica Hospital. ...

Pro-marijuana campaign looks ahead after 2012 victories Posted: 30 Dec 2012 02:14 PM PST LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - After a decades-long campaign to legalize marijuana hit a high mark in 2012 with victories in Washington state and Colorado, its energized and deep-pocketed backers are mapping out a strategy for the next round of ballot-box battles. They have their sights set on ballot measures in 2014 or 2016 in states such as California and Oregon, which were among the first in the country to allow marijuana for medical use. Although those states more recently rejected broader legalization, drug-law reform groups remain undeterred. ...

Senate, House agriculture committees in deal to avert milk price spike Posted: 30 Dec 2012 02:19 PM PST WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Farm-state lawmakers have agreed to a one-year extension of the expiring farm law that, if enacted, would head off a possible doubling of retail milk prices to $7 or more a gallon in early 2013. The extension would end a 32-month attempt to update farm subsidies dating from the Depression era, when farmers were crushed by low prices and huge crop surpluses, to meet today's high-wire challenges of tight food supplies, high operating costs and volatile markets. ...

Obama skeptical of NRA proposal to put more guns in schools Posted: 30 Dec 2012 08:57 AM PST WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama said in an interview broadcast on Sunday he hopes to get new U.S. gun control measures passed during the first year of his second term and is skeptical of a proposal by the National Rifle Association (NRA) gun lobby to put armed guards in schools. Obama assigned Vice President Joe Biden to lead a task force to come up with proposals on guns at the beginning of 2013 after the massacre of 20 children and six adults by a gunman at an elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut, this month. "I'd like to get it done in the first year. ...

Obama touts Hagel, says no decision on defense secretary job Posted: 30 Dec 2012 09:11 AM PST WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama offered strong support for former Republican Senator Chuck Hagel as the potential next U.S. defense secretary but said in remarks aired on Sunday that he had not yet decided on a nominee for the Pentagon post. Hagel is considered a leading candidate to replace outgoing Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta, but the former Nebraska lawmaker has come under criticism for his record on Israel and for a comment that being gay was an inhibiting factor for being an ambassador. "I've served with Chuck Hagel. I know him. He is a patriot. ...

Storms on U.S. Plains stir memories of the "Dust Bowl" Posted: 30 Dec 2012 06:16 AM PST LIBERAL, Kansas (Reuters) - Real estate agent Mark Faulkner recalls a day in early November when he was putting up a sign near Ulysses, Kansas, in 60-miles-per-hour winds that blew up blinding dust clouds. "There were places you could not see, it was blowing so hard," Faulkner said. Residents of the Great Plains over the last year or so have experienced storms reminiscent of the 1930s Dust Bowl. Experts say the new storms have been brought on by a combination of historic drought, a dwindling Ogallala Aquifer underground water supply, climate change and government farm programs. ...

Michigan hospital blazes trail in fight against fungal meningitis Posted: 30 Dec 2012 04:04 AM PST CHICAGO (Reuters) - After his first day working at St Joseph Mercy Ann Arbor hospital's newly created Fungal Outbreak Clinic, Dr David Vandenberg struggled to describe to his boss the enormity of what lay ahead. He settled on a line from the movie Jaws. "We're going to need a bigger boat," Vandenberg told Dr Lakshmi Halasyamani, chief medical officer of the Michigan hospital, echoing the film's local police chief after he first eyes a 25-foot (7.5-metre) killer shark. The St Joseph Mercy clinic has been at the front line of the fight against one of the biggest ever U.S. ...

Five killed, 20 injured in Oregon bus crash: state police Posted: 30 Dec 2012 03:59 PM PST PORTLAND, Oregon (Reuters) - Five people were killed and some 20 others injured on Sunday when a charter bus skidded off an icy highway near Pendleton, Oregon, police said. The Oregon State Police said a preliminary investigation showed the charter bus, carrying about 40 people, "lost control on the snow/ice covered westbound lanes of Interstate 84" near Pendleton. The bus crashed through a guardrail and went down an embankment of around 200 feet. People trained in rope rescue were needed to bring victims back up to the highway, police said. ...

EPA faces legal battles, might take easy confirmation road Posted: 30 Dec 2012 02:10 AM PST WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Regardless of who takes the reins, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will likely face continued legal battles in President Barack Obama's second term as it tries to finalize pollution rules for power plants, analysts said. EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson, who spearheaded the Obama administration's regulation of carbon emissions, said on Thursday she will step down after almost four years. Her tenure was marked by opposition from industry groups and Republican lawmakers to the EPA's first-ever crackdown on carbon emissions, as well as other anti-pollution measures. ...

American Airlines pilots approve MOU for agreements under merger Posted: 29 Dec 2012 07:57 PM PST NEW YORK (Reuters) - Union leaders who represent American Airlines pilots approved a tentative agreement Saturday for how the airline could merge with US Airways. The board of the Allied Pilots Association (APA) said it voted 11-5 to approve a so-called memorandum of understanding that, with approval of other parties, "would serve as a framework for an agreement" if the airlines merge. The union declined to provide details of the agreement, citing a non-disclosure agreement it sign as a party to the merger talks. ...

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