Neil Armstrong to be buried at sea: family |
- Neil Armstrong to be buried at sea: family
- Pentagon escalates case that former Navy SEAL broke secrecy pledge
- Rain, venue change don't dampen convention enthusiasm
- BP executives sought to blame "blue collar rig workers": U.S.
- Dockworkers return to talks ahead of contract expiration
- Kansas City bishop found guilty in priest child abuse case
- Illinois jury finds Drew Peterson guilty of murdering third wife
- New Orleans eyes more levees after passing Isaac's test
- Empire State Realty Trust names proposed board members
- Jury selection opens in former Detroit mayor's corruption trial
- Rain, venue change don't dampen convention enthusiasm
- Judge orders accused Texas base gunman to shave or be shaved
- Soda tax war taking shape in two California cities
- Alabama university rejected accused Colorado gunman: records
- Chadbourne to take over Dewey's New York office
- Ben & Jerry's wins order blocking porn copycat DVDs
- U.S. cargo ship captain detained in Venezuela, embassy says
- Philadelphia police investigating hoax in airplane diversion
- Darden Restaurants hit with lawsuit over wages
- Bill Clinton edges out football in TV audience
- Illinois jury finds Drew Peterson guilty of murdering third wife
- Ex-NBC anchor Brokaw briefly hospitalized at Democratic convention
- Companies use World Trade Center as rental bargaining chip
- Value of Bernanke's personal assets held steady in 2011
- New York State tax department attacks fraud on new front
- Security startup CrowdStrike hires one of FBI's top lawyers
- Judge affirms Central Falls, R.I. bankruptcy plan
- Olympic gold medalist Gabby Douglas to pen memoir
- U.S. businessman appears in Dubai court after fleeing bail
- Texas heat pushes electricity use to new monthly record
- Rain, venue change don't dampen convention enthusiasm
- Dockworkers return to talks ahead of contract expiration
- Natural gas pipeline explodes near Alice, Texas: owner
- Empire State Realty Trust names proposed board members
- Pentagon escalates case that former Navy SEAL broke secrecy pledge
- BP executives sought to blame "blue collar rig workers": U.S.
- Kansas City bishop found guilty in priest child abuse case
- Illinois jury finds Drew Peterson guilty of murdering third wife
- Chadbourne to take over Dewey's New York office
- Bill Clinton edges out football in TV audience
| Neil Armstrong to be buried at sea: family Posted: 06 Sep 2012 01:38 PM PDT
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| Pentagon escalates case that former Navy SEAL broke secrecy pledge Posted: 06 Sep 2012 04:40 PM PDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Pentagon on Thursday released new details about a secrecy agreement signed by a former Navy SEAL who wrote a book about his role in the raid that killed Osama bin Laden, escalating its argument that the commando violated promises not to disclose classified information. While declining to make public the non-disclosure document signed by Matt Bissonnette, who wrote under the pseudonym "Mark Owen," a Defense Department spokesman shared with Reuters a secrecy agreement he said was identical to it: http://www.dtic.mil/whs/directives/infomgt/forms/eforms/dd1847-1. ... |
| Rain, venue change don't dampen convention enthusiasm Posted: 06 Sep 2012 06:15 PM PDT
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| BP executives sought to blame "blue collar rig workers": U.S. Posted: 06 Sep 2012 04:25 PM PDT
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| Dockworkers return to talks ahead of contract expiration Posted: 06 Sep 2012 05:42 PM PDT NEW YORK (Reuters) - The union representing U.S. dockworkers and the organization for shipping companies and ports agreed on Thursday to resume labor talks to avert a possible strike that would stop container movement at 36 ports along the U.S. Atlantic and Gulf coasts. The International Longshoremen's Association (ILA) and the U.S. Maritime Alliance (USMX) will return to the bargaining table to try to hammer out a new labor deal less than two weeks before the September 30 expiration of the port workers' existing contract, the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service said on Thursday. ... |
| Kansas City bishop found guilty in priest child abuse case Posted: 06 Sep 2012 04:19 PM PDT (Reuters) - The Catholic Bishop who leads a large Kansas City diocese was found guilty Thursday for failing to alert authorities to a trove of child pornography found on a priest's computer, becoming the highest-ranking U.S. clergyman convicted in the Roman Catholic Church child sex abuse scandal. Bishop Robert Finn, 59, was found guilty of one misdemeanor charge of failing to report the wayward priest, Father Shawn Ratigan, to authorities. Ratigan pleaded guilty to federal child pornography charges last month and admitted to taking lewd photographs of many young girls. ... |
| Illinois jury finds Drew Peterson guilty of murdering third wife Posted: 06 Sep 2012 04:13 PM PDT JOLIET, Illinois (Reuters) - An Illinois jury on Thursday found former Chicago-area police officer Drew Peterson guilty of murdering his third wife, Kathleen Savio, in a case that received national attention and spawned a popular television movie. Cheers erupted outside the courtroom in Will County, Illinois near Chicago after the verdict of first degree murder was read. Peterson was convicted of killing Savio in 2004 during a contentious divorce and then staging her death to look like an accident. Savio was found dead in a bathtub, and the death was initially ruled accidental. ... |
| New Orleans eyes more levees after passing Isaac's test Posted: 06 Sep 2012 03:44 PM PDT NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - Thanks to $14.6 billion spent on new flood defenses, roughly $17,400 per resident, Clara Carey and her husband could afford to sit tight in their home when Hurricane Isaac pushed toward New Orleans last week. "We're senior citizens, and we always said if another Katrina came, we wouldn't come back," said Carey, who lost nearly everything in the flooding that followed the 2005 hurricane and took two years to restore her home in the Gentilly neighborhood. ... |
| Empire State Realty Trust names proposed board members Posted: 06 Sep 2012 04:58 PM PDT NEW YORK (Reuters) - The group leading the effort to create a publicly traded company with the Empire State Building as its centerpiece named a half dozen independent directors to join its future board, according to a regulatory filing on Thursday. Empire State Realty Trust Inc's group of proposed directors includes a slate of commercial real estate veterans such as Thomas DeRosa, the former vice chairman and chief financial officer of the Rouse Co, according to the filing. The proposed real estate investment trust will not have a staggered board, the filing said. ... |
| Jury selection opens in former Detroit mayor's corruption trial Posted: 06 Sep 2012 01:06 PM PDT
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| Rain, venue change don't dampen convention enthusiasm Posted: 06 Sep 2012 03:28 PM PDT
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| Judge orders accused Texas base gunman to shave or be shaved Posted: 06 Sep 2012 01:43 PM PDT SAN ANTONIO (Reuters) - A U.S. military judge on Thursday ordered the Fort Hood massacre suspect, Army Major Nidal Hasan, to shave or be forcibly shaved, ruling that his beard is not covered by federal laws protecting religious freedom. Colonel Gregory Gross ruled following a hearing that Hasan's attorneys failed to prove he has grown the beard, which he has worn since June, for sincerely religious reasons. Hasan, 41, has said he grew the beard in line with the beliefs of his Islamic faith, and that it is part of his free exercise of religion. ... |
| Soda tax war taking shape in two California cities Posted: 05 Sep 2012 10:39 PM PDT
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| Alabama university rejected accused Colorado gunman: records Posted: 06 Sep 2012 01:32 PM PDT
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| Chadbourne to take over Dewey's New York office Posted: 06 Sep 2012 04:04 PM PDT NEW YORK (Reuters) - Chadbourne & Parke said Thursday it had agreed to lease the abandoned Manhattan headquarters of Dewey & LeBoeuf, the Wall Street law firm that filed for bankruptcy in May. Chadbourne, a 400-lawyer firm based in New York, agreed to lease 200,000 square feet of space at 1301 Avenue of the Americas, about half the space leased by Dewey. The deal marks the largest lease transaction in New York by a law firm so far this year. The deal will go a long way toward relieving Dewey's landlord, Paramount Group, Inc, of some of the suddenly emptied space. ... |
| Ben & Jerry's wins order blocking porn copycat DVDs Posted: 06 Sep 2012 02:56 PM PDT NEW YORK (Reuters) - Ben & Jerry's Homemade Inc on Thursday won a court order temporarily blocking a producer of pornographic DVDs from selling and advertising titles with names similar to those of the company and its ice cream flavors. U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan in Manhattan ordered Caballero Video to stop selling 10 DVD titles in its "Ben & Cherry's" series and to remove references to the products from the Internet. Kaplan issued his temporary restraining order one day after Ben & Jerry's sued Caballero, accusing the North Hollywood, California-based company of trademark infringement. ... |
| U.S. cargo ship captain detained in Venezuela, embassy says Posted: 06 Sep 2012 03:02 PM PDT CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuelan authorities have arrested the American captain of a U.S.-flagged cargo ship after finding three rifles on board, a U.S. Embassy official said. The other 14 crew members, also Americans, were initially confined to the ship and their movements have since been restricted by Venezuelan authorities, the official added. The detention followed last month's arrest of another U.S. citizen, who was accused of entering illegally from neighboring Colombia and denounced as a possible "mercenary" by President Hugo Chavez. ... |
| Philadelphia police investigating hoax in airplane diversion Posted: 06 Sep 2012 09:23 AM PDT
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| Darden Restaurants hit with lawsuit over wages Posted: 06 Sep 2012 03:17 PM PDT MIAMI (Reuters) - Darden Restaurants Inc, best known for its Olive Garden and Red Lobster chains, was hit with a lawsuit in federal court in Miami on Thursday accusing one of the largest U.S. restaurant operators of violating federal labor laws by underpaying workers at its popular eateries across the country. The lawsuit accuses the Orlando, Florida-based company of failing to pay federally mandated minimum wages and forcing its waiters and waitresses to work "off-the-clock" before or after their shifts. ... |
| Bill Clinton edges out football in TV audience Posted: 06 Sep 2012 04:01 PM PDT
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| Illinois jury finds Drew Peterson guilty of murdering third wife Posted: 06 Sep 2012 01:39 PM PDT JOLIET, Illinois (Reuters) - An Illinois jury on Thursday found former Chicago-area police officer Drew Peterson guilty of murdering his third wife, Kathleen Savio, in a case that received national attention and spawned a popular television movie. Peterson was convicted of first degree murder in the death of Savio in 2004 during a contentious divorce, and then staging her death to look like an accident. Savio was found dead in a bathtub, and the death was initially ruled accidental. Suspicions were raised when Peterson's fourth wife, Stacy Peterson, disappeared in 2007. ... |
| Ex-NBC anchor Brokaw briefly hospitalized at Democratic convention Posted: 06 Sep 2012 11:59 AM PDT
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| Companies use World Trade Center as rental bargaining chip Posted: 06 Sep 2012 11:34 AM PDT
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| Value of Bernanke's personal assets held steady in 2011 Posted: 06 Sep 2012 12:35 PM PDT
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| New York State tax department attacks fraud on new front Posted: 06 Sep 2012 12:03 PM PDT (Reuters) - New York State, a pioneer at catching tax scofflaws in the digital age, has a new weapon in its arsenal - data collected from debit and credit card purchases that will help it detect retailers who are under-reporting sales. By checking customer data against retailer tax returns, wholesaler records and other sources, the state hopes to find retailers who either fail to collect or remit the sales taxes due. Sales taxes made up 25 percent of the $101 billion in taxes collected by New York on behalf of the state and local governments during the fiscal year ended March 31, 2012. ... |
| Security startup CrowdStrike hires one of FBI's top lawyers Posted: 06 Sep 2012 10:37 AM PDT BOSTON (Reuters) - A security firm known as CrowdStrike that is urging clients to get tough with hackers has hired one of the FBI's top attorneys to advise customers on just how far they can go in fighting back without getting into legal troubles of their own. The firm said on Thursday that FBI Deputy Assistant Director Steven Chabinsky will join the company next week as senior vice president for legal affairs and chief risk officer. ... |
| Judge affirms Central Falls, R.I. bankruptcy plan Posted: 06 Sep 2012 01:00 PM PDT (Reuters) - Central Falls, Rhode Island, took a big step toward exiting bankruptcy on Thursday when a judge signed off on a plan that balances the impoverished city's budget for the next five years by hiking taxes, cutting employees and pensions and revising labor contracts. The case has garnered attention for its treatment of the city's bondholders, who remain unscathed while pensioners took a huge hit, in contrast with some other recent U.S. municipal bankruptcies. The quick resolution of Central Falls' bankruptcy, filed in August 2011, may be one for the record books. ... |
| Olympic gold medalist Gabby Douglas to pen memoir Posted: 06 Sep 2012 11:19 AM PDT
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| U.S. businessman appears in Dubai court after fleeing bail Posted: 06 Sep 2012 05:21 AM PDT DUBAI (Reuters) - A U.S. property developer who fled the United Arab Emirates while on bail appeared in court on Thursday after being deported back to Dubai and will be charged with leaving the country illegally, the public prosecutor said. Zack Shahin, former chief executive of Dubai-based property developer Deyaar, was detained in 2008 on embezzlement charges and went on a hunger strike in May this year in protest against being held without a ruling on his case. He was released on $1. ... |
| Texas heat pushes electricity use to new monthly record Posted: 06 Sep 2012 10:40 AM PDT HOUSTON (Reuters) - Texas power use in the first week of September has reached a higher level than in any previous September, according to the state's power grid operator, but the record may be short-lived as triple-digit temperatures are forecast to boost power demand again on Thursday and Friday. Power demand reached 64,862 megawatts in the hour between 4 p.m. and 5 p.m. CDT (2100-2200 GMT) on Wednesday, according to preliminary grid data, surpassing the September record of 63,161 MW set last year during a prolonged heat wave and drought. ... |
| Rain, venue change don't dampen convention enthusiasm Posted: 06 Sep 2012 06:15 PM PDT
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| Dockworkers return to talks ahead of contract expiration Posted: 06 Sep 2012 05:42 PM PDT NEW YORK (Reuters) - The union representing U.S. dockworkers and the organization for shipping companies and ports agreed on Thursday to resume labor talks to avert a possible strike that would stop container movement at 36 ports along the U.S. Atlantic and Gulf coasts. The International Longshoremen's Association (ILA) and the U.S. Maritime Alliance (USMX) will return to the bargaining table to try to hammer out a new labor deal less than two weeks before the September 30 expiration of the port workers' existing contract, the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service said on Thursday. ... |
| Natural gas pipeline explodes near Alice, Texas: owner Posted: 06 Sep 2012 05:01 PM PDT HOUSTON (Reuters) - A natural gas gathering pipeline exploded on Thursday about 10 miles north of Alice, Texas, said a spokesman for pipeline owner Copano Energy LLC. No injuries were reported from the afternoon blast in the 10-inch (25.4-centimeter) Bradshaw pipeline near a compressor station, said Copano's Craig Brown. The section of pipeline that ruptured in the explosion has been isolated and the remaining gas and condensate in the pipe is being allowed to burn off, Brown said. ... |
| Empire State Realty Trust names proposed board members Posted: 06 Sep 2012 04:58 PM PDT NEW YORK (Reuters) - The group leading the effort to create a publicly traded company with the Empire State Building as its centerpiece named a half dozen independent directors to join its future board, according to a regulatory filing on Thursday. Empire State Realty Trust Inc's group of proposed directors includes a slate of commercial real estate veterans such as Thomas DeRosa, the former vice chairman and chief financial officer of the Rouse Co, according to the filing. The proposed real estate investment trust will not have a staggered board, the filing said. ... |
| Pentagon escalates case that former Navy SEAL broke secrecy pledge Posted: 06 Sep 2012 04:40 PM PDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Pentagon on Thursday released new details about a secrecy agreement signed by a former Navy SEAL who wrote a book about his role in the raid that killed Osama bin Laden, escalating its argument that the commando violated promises not to disclose classified information. While declining to make public the non-disclosure document signed by Matt Bissonnette, who wrote under the pseudonym "Mark Owen," a Defense Department spokesman shared with Reuters a secrecy agreement he said was identical to it: http://www.dtic.mil/whs/directives/infomgt/forms/eforms/dd1847-1. ... |
| BP executives sought to blame "blue collar rig workers": U.S. Posted: 06 Sep 2012 04:25 PM PDT
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| Kansas City bishop found guilty in priest child abuse case Posted: 06 Sep 2012 04:19 PM PDT (Reuters) - The Catholic Bishop who leads a large Kansas City diocese was found guilty Thursday for failing to alert authorities to a trove of child pornography found on a priest's computer, becoming the highest-ranking U.S. clergyman convicted in the Roman Catholic Church child sex abuse scandal. Bishop Robert Finn, 59, was found guilty of one misdemeanor charge of failing to report the wayward priest, Father Shawn Ratigan, to authorities. Ratigan pleaded guilty to federal child pornography charges last month and admitted to taking lewd photographs of many young girls. ... |
| Illinois jury finds Drew Peterson guilty of murdering third wife Posted: 06 Sep 2012 04:13 PM PDT JOLIET, Illinois (Reuters) - An Illinois jury on Thursday found former Chicago-area police officer Drew Peterson guilty of murdering his third wife, Kathleen Savio, in a case that received national attention and spawned a popular television movie. Cheers erupted outside the courtroom in Will County, Illinois near Chicago after the verdict of first degree murder was read. Peterson was convicted of killing Savio in 2004 during a contentious divorce and then staging her death to look like an accident. Savio was found dead in a bathtub, and the death was initially ruled accidental. ... |
| Chadbourne to take over Dewey's New York office Posted: 06 Sep 2012 04:04 PM PDT NEW YORK (Reuters) - Chadbourne & Parke said Thursday it had agreed to lease the abandoned Manhattan headquarters of Dewey & LeBoeuf, the Wall Street law firm that filed for bankruptcy in May. Chadbourne, a 400-lawyer firm based in New York, agreed to lease 200,000 square feet of space at 1301 Avenue of the Americas, about half the space leased by Dewey. The deal marks the largest lease transaction in New York by a law firm so far this year. The deal will go a long way toward relieving Dewey's landlord, Paramount Group, Inc, of some of the suddenly emptied space. ... |
| Bill Clinton edges out football in TV audience Posted: 06 Sep 2012 04:01 PM PDT
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