New York enacts gun-control law, first since Newtown attack |
- New York enacts gun-control law, first since Newtown attack
- Kentucky college posts alert of campus shooting, two reported dead
- St. Louis college student shoots school employee: police
- House passes $50.5 billion in Sandy aid, Republicans trim items
- Tennessee declares state of emergency over ice storm
- Anti-gun protesters target Newtown-area Walmart
- U.S. Supreme Court sinks Florida city over floating home
- Obama to propose sweeping gun control measures Wednesday
- FBI says Oregon bomb suspect originally wanted to blow himself up
- Hong Kong man arrested for selling stolen U.S. military equipment
- Sacramento mayor says working to keep basketball's Kings in town
- Connecticut town names school for slain Sandy Hook teacher
- One man dies, one hurt minutes apart at New York subway station
- New York enacts gun-control law, first since Newtown attack
- New York woman indicted in case tied to Newtown fundraising scheme
- One dead, one hurt after being hit by New York subways
- Psychiatrist who treated accused Colorado gunman sued over rampage
- Nebraska governor is latest to propose ending state income tax
- Penn State seeks dismissal of Sandusky whistleblower suit
- Supreme Court reviews property rights in Florida case
- NY City giant soda ban gives three-month grace period for fines
- Broadband Research analyst gets prison in insider case
- Infrastructure woes could cost 3.5 million jobs by 2020: report
- Vermont hunting accidents hit fresh low in 2012
- Hagel gets boost from Senate Democrats for Pentagon job
- New York to use GPS-fitted bottles to track stolen pain pills
- Wal-Mart plans $50 billion "buy American" push
- Anti-gun protest planned at Newtown-area Walmart
- Dry outlook troublesome for drought-stricken U.S.
- One man dies, one hurt minutes apart at New York subway station
- Factbox: Key provisions of New York's gun-control law
- New York gun enthusiasts crowd gun store ahead of new law
| New York enacts gun-control law, first since Newtown attack Posted: 15 Jan 2013 05:45 PM PST
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| Kentucky college posts alert of campus shooting, two reported dead Posted: 15 Jan 2013 06:28 PM PST (Reuters) - A shooting erupted at a community college in Kentucky on Tuesday, the school said in a posting on its website, and local media reports said two people were killed and a third was wounded. The shooting was reported by the Hazard Community and Technical College, located southeast of Lexington, in a brief online alert that said only: "Shooting at HCTC Hazard Campus." According to local news reports citing a college administrator, the shooting occurred at about 4:30 p.m. local time, prompting a security "lockdown" of the campus. No further details were immediately available. ... |
| St. Louis college student shoots school employee: police Posted: 15 Jan 2013 02:12 PM PST ST. LOUIS (Reuters) - A student armed with a pistol opened fire at a college in downtown St. Louis on Tuesday, shooting a school employee and then turning the gun on himself, police said. Both men are expected to survive the incident, which occurred at about 2 p.m. local time at the Stevens Institute of Business & Arts, according to St. Louis Police Department spokesman David Marzullo. The student, in his early 20s, shot a man in his 40s, who is believed to be a school administrator, in the torso, Marzullo said. St. ... |
| House passes $50.5 billion in Sandy aid, Republicans trim items Posted: 15 Jan 2013 06:00 PM PST
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| Tennessee declares state of emergency over ice storm Posted: 15 Jan 2013 06:22 PM PST NASHVILLE (Reuters) - Tennessee officials declared a state of emergency on Tuesday as ice storms hit a swathe of territory in the mid-south of the United States and concerns grew about flooding and dangerous road conditions. Freezing rain across the region from about mid-morning on Tuesday had caused ice accumulation of up to half an inch (12.7 mm) in Arkansas just southwest of Memphis, according to the National Weather Service. ... |
| Anti-gun protesters target Newtown-area Walmart Posted: 15 Jan 2013 12:53 PM PST
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| U.S. Supreme Court sinks Florida city over floating home Posted: 15 Jan 2013 02:48 PM PST
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| Obama to propose sweeping gun control measures Wednesday Posted: 15 Jan 2013 03:58 PM PST
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| FBI says Oregon bomb suspect originally wanted to blow himself up Posted: 15 Jan 2013 03:54 PM PST PORTLAND, Oregon (Reuters) - A Somali-born man charged in a Christmas-season bomb plot in Oregon was eager to "martyr" himself in a suicide mission, but FBI agents posing as al Qaeda operatives talked him into a plan to set off explosives remotely instead, one of them testified on Tuesday. Returning to the witness stand for the second day of testimony in the trial of Mohamed Osman Mohamud, an undercover agent identified in court only by his pseudonym, Youssef, recounted offering the defendant a number of chances to back out of the plot. ... |
| Hong Kong man arrested for selling stolen U.S. military equipment Posted: 15 Jan 2013 05:15 PM PST NEW YORK (Reuters) - A Hong Kong man was arrested in San Francisco and accused of selling infrared laser-aiming devices stolen from U.S. military installations, U.S. authorities said Tuesday. Kwok Kuen Leung, 38, also known as Andy Leung, smuggled the laser devices, night-vision scopes and other military equipment into the United States from 2005 to 2009, according to an indictment unsealed in Manhattan Federal Court. Infrared laser-aiming devices are mounted on weapons and project a laser beam on a target that can't be seen by the human eye, but can be seen with night-vision equipment. ... |
| Sacramento mayor says working to keep basketball's Kings in town Posted: 15 Jan 2013 06:17 PM PST
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| Connecticut town names school for slain Sandy Hook teacher Posted: 15 Jan 2013 09:40 AM PST
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| One man dies, one hurt minutes apart at New York subway station Posted: 15 Jan 2013 04:46 PM PST NEW YORK (Reuters) - One New York man was killed and another seriously injured in separate incidents just minutes apart at a Manhattan station during Tuesday's rush-hour, authorities said. A 31-year-old Bronx man, whose name was being withheld, was pronounced dead after the late afternoon incident at the 125th Street and Lexington Avenue station, police said. He had been riding between two subway cars moments after the northbound train left the station when he lost his balance, fell onto the tracks and was struck. ... |
| New York enacts gun-control law, first since Newtown attack Posted: 15 Jan 2013 02:56 PM PST
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| New York woman indicted in case tied to Newtown fundraising scheme Posted: 15 Jan 2013 01:59 PM PST MERIDEN, Connecticut (Reuters) - A 37-year-old New York woman was indicted by a federal grand jury Tuesday on charges she lied to federal agents investigating fraudulent fundraising schemes tied to the Sandy Hook school shooting. Authorities say Nouel Alba used her Facebook account, telephone calls and text messages to falsely claim she was an aunt of one of the children fatally shot during the December 14 massacre at the school that killed 20 children and 6 teachers. ... |
| One dead, one hurt after being hit by New York subways Posted: 15 Jan 2013 03:18 PM PST NEW YORK (Reuters) - One person was killed and another seriously injured when they were struck by separate New York subway trains at a Manhattan station during Tuesday's rush-hour, authorities said. One person was pronounced dead at the station at 125th Street and Lexington Avenue, in Harlem, after the late-afternoon incident, the Fire Department of New York said. The injured man was in serious but stable condition and being taken to a hospital, the fire department said. ... |
| Psychiatrist who treated accused Colorado gunman sued over rampage Posted: 15 Jan 2013 12:22 PM PST
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| Nebraska governor is latest to propose ending state income tax Posted: 15 Jan 2013 02:52 PM PST OMAHA (Reuters) - Nebraska Governor Dave Heineman on Tuesday became the second Republican governor in the last week to propose ending his state's income tax, saying he wants to make Nebraska more competitive with its neighbors by eliminating the tax on both individuals and corporations. Heineman said that if a complete elimination of the two taxes could not be passed, he would push to lower rates on both individuals and corporations. He promised to make up the lost revenue by reducing business exemptions to the sales tax. ... |
| Penn State seeks dismissal of Sandusky whistleblower suit Posted: 15 Jan 2013 09:35 AM PST
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| Supreme Court reviews property rights in Florida case Posted: 15 Jan 2013 01:00 PM PST
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| NY City giant soda ban gives three-month grace period for fines Posted: 15 Jan 2013 09:43 AM PST NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York City will give restaurants and food outlets a three-month grace period before imposing fines for serving the large sugary drinks that will be banned, city officials said on Tuesday. The board of the city's Department of Health passed the ban, the first of its kind in the nation, in September, arguing that excessive soda drinking was a significant cause of obesity and other health problems. ... |
| Broadband Research analyst gets prison in insider case Posted: 15 Jan 2013 12:15 PM PST
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| Infrastructure woes could cost 3.5 million jobs by 2020: report Posted: 15 Jan 2013 08:10 AM PST WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Imagine a future of broken bridges, roads, sewer systems, power grids, airports and not enough money to fix them or to build new ones to serve an expanding population. What would that cost the United States in terms of lost jobs? A study released on Tuesday by the American Society of Civil Engineers says the cost in terms of lost jobs would be 3.5 million by 2020. It also projected a cumulative loss of $3.1 trillion in economic output over the same period without $1.1 trillion in additional funding for infrastructure projects. ... |
| Vermont hunting accidents hit fresh low in 2012 Posted: 15 Jan 2013 11:47 AM PST CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts (Reuters) - Vermont reported no hunting-related shooting incidents last year for the first time in at least four decades, helped by educational programs that have made the sport safer, authorities said on Tuesday. Shooting injuries and fatalities among hunters have fallen sharply since the 1960s, when the state sometimes saw as many as 20 to 30 incidents per year, said Chris Saunders, hunter education coordinator for the Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department. "It's safer than badminton," he said. ... |
| Hagel gets boost from Senate Democrats for Pentagon job Posted: 15 Jan 2013 12:07 PM PST
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| New York to use GPS-fitted bottles to track stolen pain pills Posted: 15 Jan 2013 06:58 AM PST NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York police will begin asking city pharmacies to stock decoy bottles fitted with GPS devices among powerful painkillers like Oxycontin and oxycodone in the latest bid to combat gunpoint robberies of drug stores. Police hope that in the event of a robbery, the 'bait bottles', which will be labeled as painkillers but filled with harmless placebos, will lead them back to large stocks of stolen prescription drugs. Last year, federal and New York Police Department investigators seized 9,000 painkillers being sold at an open-air drug market in northern Manhattan. ... |
| Wal-Mart plans $50 billion "buy American" push Posted: 15 Jan 2013 01:20 PM PST
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| Anti-gun protest planned at Newtown-area Walmart Posted: 15 Jan 2013 05:19 AM PST DANBURY, Connecticut (Reuters) - Gun-control advocates are planning a rally outside a Walmart store near Newtown, Connecticut, on Tuesday to demand the largest U.S. retailer stop selling assault weapons. The rally is planned for a Walmart in a Danbury shopping center, which is eight miles from the Newtown elementary school where a gunman opened fire on December 14, killing 20 first graders and six educators. The group SumofUs plans to deliver a letter of protest to Walmart, which it says has been signed by 250,000 people. ... |
| Dry outlook troublesome for drought-stricken U.S. Posted: 15 Jan 2013 05:30 AM PST (Reuters) - Forecasts for a return to dry weather for the balance of January in the already drought-stricken U.S. western Midwest and Plains are renewing worries among agriculture interests following the worst drought in more than 50 years in 2012. "Dry weather will prevail in core drought areas of the western Midwest and Central Plains through the last half of January," said Joel Widenor, agricultural meteorologist for Commodity Weather Group. "This will also prevent any long-term stabilization in river levels in the middle Mississippi River Valley. ... |
| One man dies, one hurt minutes apart at New York subway station Posted: 15 Jan 2013 06:38 PM PST
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| Factbox: Key provisions of New York's gun-control law Posted: 15 Jan 2013 06:27 PM PST NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York Governor Andrew Cuomo on Tuesday signed into law one of the nation's toughest gun-control measures and the first to be enacted since the mass shooting last month at an elementary school in neighboring Connecticut. The following are some key provisions of the legislation: Mental health alert: Mental health professionals will be required to report to local officials when they have reason to believe a patient is likely to cause serious harm to themselves or others. This information will be cross-checked against a new gun registration database. ... |
| New York gun enthusiasts crowd gun store ahead of new law Posted: 15 Jan 2013 04:03 PM PST CHEEKTOWAGA, New York (Reuters) - Word of New York's pending tough gun controls prompted hundreds of enthusiasts to line up in below-freezing temperatures on Tuesday to purchase weapons at the Buffalo Gun Center. One of them was Roland Jamieson, 38, a draftsman who emerged from the store toting a black AR-15 semi-automatic assault rifle for which he paid $2,500. "I wasn't even in the market until today," he said. New York Governor Andrew Cuomo signed the gun control legislation into law on Tuesday after it was passed by the Democratic-led Assembly. ... |
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