New York cuts pension benefits for public workers |
- New York cuts pension benefits for public workers
- Banks hike fees, cut costs to boost profits
- Government to shut down Texas women's health program
- Accused Texas courthouse gunman targeted daughter: police
- Police: 'Lots of damage' in Michigan town after suspected tornado
- Oklahoma executes man who killed wife for insurance money
- Cameras in tow, Blagojevich surrenders to prison
- Suspected tornado hits Michigan as warm spell goes on
- NY state lawmakers to allow casino gambling
- Severe storm alert in Midwest as warmth lingers over much of U.S
- Catholic bishops pressured Komen over Planned Parenthood
- Prosecutors repeatedly hid evidence in Senator Stevens case
- Mississippi lawmakers move ahead on tough immigration bill
- New York lawmakers approve redistricting amendment
- U.S. to shut down Texas women's health program
- No bail reduction for New York's 'Soccer Mom Madam'
- Part of DC's Mall may be sinking faster than normal
- Marathon reports pipe leak at Texas City refinery
- Ford sued, said to hide truck fuel tank defect
- Diseases from imported food on the rise: CDC
- Oklahoma set to execute man for insurance killing of wife
- Wisconsin to ban some abortion coverage, re-focus sex education
- Senator warns White House on Russia trade bill
- NY lawmakers reach deal on teacher evaluation law
- Ad campaign shows smoking's scary side
- Analysis: Higher gasoline prices becoming automakers' ally
- New Mexico border town gun ring defendant gets 4-year jail term
- Oklahoma executes man who killed wife for insurance money
- Suspected tornado hits Michigan as warm spell goes on
- Police: 'Lots of damage' in Michigan town after suspected tornado
- Accused Texas courthouse gunman targeted daughter: police
- Government to shut down Texas women's health program
- Catholic bishops pressured Komen over Planned Parenthood
- U.S. to shut down Texas women's health program
- Karzai asks NATO to leave Afghan villages; Taliban scrap talks
- Severe storm alert in Midwest as warmth lingers over much of U.S
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| Banks hike fees, cut costs to boost profits Posted: (Reuters) - Jack up checking fees for bank customers who don't use direct deposit regularly. Replace tellers with self-service, touch-screen kiosks. Install new chairs and conference rooms to court well-to-do customers. U.S. bank executives are handing down such orders to replace profits lost to recent regulatory reforms and low interest rates. They hope these tactics will be more successful than Bank of America Corp's plan last fall to charge a $5 monthly fee for debit cards. The bank had to retreat amid howls of protest. ... |
| Government to shut down Texas women's health program Posted: SAN ANTONIO, Texas (Reuters) - The Obama Administration on Thursday said it would begin shutting down a program that provides health care for more than 100,000 low-income women in Texas because the state will not allow funding for clinics that provide abortion services. The move follows an announcement last week by Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius that the federal government would withdraw funding for Texas' "Women's Health Program" after state lawmakers last year enacted the abortion funding prohibition. ... |
| Accused Texas courthouse gunman targeted daughter: police Posted: (Reuters) - A man accused of opening fire outside a Texas courthouse, killing a 79-year-old bystander, was gunning for his daughter and her mother after they testified against him in a sexual assault case, police said on Thursday. Bartholomew Granger, 41, was booked on a murder charge following Wednesday's shooting rampage at the Jefferson County Courthouse in Beaumont, Texas, and was being held on $4 million bond, Beaumont Police spokeswoman Carol Riley said. ... |
| Police: 'Lots of damage' in Michigan town after suspected tornado Posted: (Reuters) - A suspected tornado touchdown in Michigan on Thursday may have caused "lots of damage," including destroyed homes, near the town of Dexter, a county official said. A dispatcher with the Washtenaw County Sheriff's Department said it was not immediately clear if anyone had been killed or injured. "There are homes leveled at this point," he said. The National Weather Service had earlier issued a tornado warning for parts of the county and urged residents to take cover. (Reporting by James B. Kelleher; Editing by Cynthia Johnston) |
| Oklahoma executes man who killed wife for insurance money Posted: OKLAHOMA CITY (Reuters) - An Oklahoma man was executed on Thursday by lethal injection for murdering his wife, who prosecutors say was beaten with a baseball bat and repeatedly run over with a pickup truck, to collect nearly $1 million in insurance benefits. Timothy Shaun Stemple died at 6:11 p.m. local time, prison spokesman Jerry Massie said. Stemple, 47, requested pizza and an orange soda for his last meal but did not offer a final statement, Massie said. Stemple killed his wife Tricia in 1996. ... |
| Cameras in tow, Blagojevich surrenders to prison Posted:
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| Suspected tornado hits Michigan as warm spell goes on Posted: CHICAGO (Reuters) - A suspected tornado touched down in Michigan on Thursday, causing severe damage to some structures but no deaths, as forecasters put four states in the country's midsection under severe thunderstorm watches or warnings. A dispatcher with the Washtenaw County Sheriff's Department said "there are homes leveled at this point" in Dexter, just north of the Michigan college town of Ann Arbor. ... |
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| Severe storm alert in Midwest as warmth lingers over much of U.S Posted: CHICAGO (Reuters) - Forecasters issued a severe storm watch on Thursday afternoon for parts of Indiana, Kentucky and Tennessee, warning of possible large hail, wind gusts of up to 70 miles an hour and dangerous lightning in a region raked by deadly tornadoes less than two weeks ago. The Storm Prediction Center said the severe thunderstorm watch was in effect for southern Indiana, central Kentucky and middle Tennessee through 10 p. m. Thursday. Further north, the Weather Service issued severe thunderstorm warnings and watches for much of southeast Michigan. ... |
| Catholic bishops pressured Komen over Planned Parenthood Posted:
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| Prosecutors repeatedly hid evidence in Senator Stevens case Posted:
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| Mississippi lawmakers move ahead on tough immigration bill Posted: STARKVILLE, Mississippi (Reuters) - Mississippi lawmakers moved closer to enacting legislation to crack down on illegal immigrants in the state, though the proposal does not go as far as neighboring Alabama's law, widely seen as the toughest in the nation and now the focus of a court challenge by the Obama administration. The Mississippi House of Representatives voted early on Thursday to pass the Mississippi Support Our Law Enforcement and Safe Neighborhoods Act by a vote of 68-49. ... |
| New York lawmakers approve redistricting amendment Posted: ALBANY, New York (Reuters) - New York state lawmakers on Thursday approved a constitutional amendment that would create a 10-member commission responsible for the once-a-decade process of redrawing the state's congressional and legislative districts. Eight of the panel's members would be chosen by legislative leaders and would then select the final two commissioners, who would serve as co-chairs. To become law, the amendment must be passed by the next separately elected legislature, in either 2013 or 2014, and approved by voters in a referendum. ... |
| U.S. to shut down Texas women's health program Posted: SAN ANTONIO, Texas (Reuters) - The Obama Administration on Thursday said it would begin shutting down a program that provides health care for more than 100,000 low-income women in Texas because the state will not allow funding for clinics that provide abortion services. The move follows an announcement last week by U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius that the federal government would withdraw funding for Texas' "Women's Health Program" after state lawmakers last year enacted the abortion funding prohibition. ... |
| No bail reduction for New York's 'Soccer Mom Madam' Posted:
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| Part of DC's Mall may be sinking faster than normal Posted:
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| Marathon reports pipe leak at Texas City refinery Posted: (Reuters) - Marathon Petroleum Corp on Thursday reported a pipe leak during pressure testing of the system at its 76,000 barrel-per-day (bpd) Texas City refinery, according to a filing with state pollution regulators. The pressure testing of the system was discontinued, the leak was stopped and the contents of the pipe were drained, the filing with the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality said. The filing identified Dock 16 as one of the sources. (For refinery outages in the Reuters Oil Fundamentals Database see http://bond.views.session.rservices. ... |
| Ford sued, said to hide truck fuel tank defect Posted:
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| Diseases from imported food on the rise: CDC Posted:
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| Oklahoma set to execute man for insurance killing of wife Posted: OKLAHOMA CITY (Reuters) - A Tulsa County man convicted of killing his wife to collect nearly $1 million in insurance benefits was scheduled to be executed by lethal injection on Thursday at the state prison in McAlester, Oklahoma. Barring a last-minute stay, Timothy Shaun Stemple, 46, will be executed around 6 p.m. local time and become the second man executed in Oklahoma this year and the 98th person since capital punishment was resumed in 1977, the Oklahoma Department of Corrections said. ... |
| Wisconsin to ban some abortion coverage, re-focus sex education Posted: MADISON, Wisconsin (Reuters) - Wisconsin lawmakers have approved controversial measures to block the state's new health insurance exchange from covering abortions and require sex education classes to emphasize abstinence as the preferred method of birth control. Both bills, which were voted through the Republican-controlled Assembly by 61-34 late Tuesday, now head to the desk of Republican Governor Scott Walker, who is widely expected to sign them. ... |
| Senator warns White House on Russia trade bill Posted:
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| NY lawmakers reach deal on teacher evaluation law Posted: (Reuters) - New York Governor Andrew Cuomo and leaders of the state legislature reached a deal on Wednesday to put a new evaluation system into law that seeks to make teachers more accountable and assure federal funding for schools continues to flow. Cuomo, Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, and Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver said the new evaluation system would set standards for teacher evaluations based on student achievement and rigorous classroom observations. ... |
| Ad campaign shows smoking's scary side Posted:
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| Analysis: Higher gasoline prices becoming automakers' ally Posted:
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| New Mexico border town gun ring defendant gets 4-year jail term Posted: (Reuters) - The first defendant in a conspiracy involving leaders of a tiny New Mexico border town who ran guns to violent Mexican drug cartels has been sentenced to nearly four years in prison, U.S. Attorney Robert Pitman said on Thursday. Judge Robert Brack sentenced Vicente "Tito" Carreon to 46 months in prison on Wednesday in federal court in Las Cruces, New Mexico, Pitman said. Brack also ordered three years of supervised release for Carreon. ... |
| Oklahoma executes man who killed wife for insurance money Posted: OKLAHOMA CITY (Reuters) - An Oklahoma man was executed on Thursday by lethal injection for murdering his wife, who prosecutors say was beaten with a baseball bat and repeatedly run over with a pickup truck, to collect nearly $1 million in insurance benefits. Timothy Shaun Stemple died at 6:11 p.m. local time, prison spokesman Jerry Massie said. Stemple, 47, requested pizza and an orange soda for his last meal but did not offer a final statement, Massie said. Stemple killed his wife Tricia in 1996. ... |
| Suspected tornado hits Michigan as warm spell goes on Posted: CHICAGO (Reuters) - A suspected tornado touched down in Michigan on Thursday, causing severe damage to some structures but no deaths, as forecasters put four states in the country's midsection under severe thunderstorm watches or warnings. A dispatcher with the Washtenaw County Sheriff's Department said "there are homes leveled at this point" in Dexter, just north of the Michigan college town of Ann Arbor. ... |
| Police: 'Lots of damage' in Michigan town after suspected tornado Posted: (Reuters) - A suspected tornado touchdown in Michigan on Thursday may have caused "lots of damage," including destroyed homes, near the town of Dexter, a county official said. A dispatcher with the Washtenaw County Sheriff's Department said it was not immediately clear if anyone had been killed or injured. "There are homes leveled at this point," he said. The National Weather Service had earlier issued a tornado warning for parts of the county and urged residents to take cover. (Reporting by James B. Kelleher; Editing by Cynthia Johnston) |
| Accused Texas courthouse gunman targeted daughter: police Posted: (Reuters) - A man accused of opening fire outside a Texas courthouse, killing a 79-year-old bystander, was gunning for his daughter and her mother after they testified against him in a sexual assault case, police said on Thursday. Bartholomew Granger, 41, was booked on a murder charge following Wednesday's shooting rampage at the Jefferson County Courthouse in Beaumont, Texas, and was being held on $4 million bond, Beaumont Police spokeswoman Carol Riley said. ... |
| Government to shut down Texas women's health program Posted: SAN ANTONIO, Texas (Reuters) - The Obama Administration on Thursday said it would begin shutting down a program that provides health care for more than 100,000 low-income women in Texas because the state will not allow funding for clinics that provide abortion services. The move follows an announcement last week by Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius that the federal government would withdraw funding for Texas' "Women's Health Program" after state lawmakers last year enacted the abortion funding prohibition. ... |
| Catholic bishops pressured Komen over Planned Parenthood Posted:
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| U.S. to shut down Texas women's health program Posted: SAN ANTONIO, Texas (Reuters) - The Obama Administration on Thursday said it would begin shutting down a program that provides health care for more than 100,000 low-income women in Texas because the state will not allow funding for clinics that provide abortion services. The move follows an announcement last week by U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius that the federal government would withdraw funding for Texas' "Women's Health Program" after state lawmakers last year enacted the abortion funding prohibition. ... |
| Karzai asks NATO to leave Afghan villages; Taliban scrap talks Posted:
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| Severe storm alert in Midwest as warmth lingers over much of U.S Posted: CHICAGO (Reuters) - Forecasters issued a severe storm watch on Thursday afternoon for parts of Indiana, Kentucky and Tennessee, warning of possible large hail, wind gusts of up to 70 miles an hour and dangerous lightning in a region raked by deadly tornadoes less than two weeks ago. The Storm Prediction Center said the severe thunderstorm watch was in effect for southern Indiana, central Kentucky and middle Tennessee through 10 p. m. Thursday. Further north, the Weather Service issued severe thunderstorm warnings and watches for much of southeast Michigan. ... |
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