Ohio teens face murder charges after tossed sandbag kills man on highway
(Reuters) – Four Ohio teenagers were charged with murder on Wednesday, accused of tossing a sandbag from a highway overpass in Toledo that killed a passenger in a car last week, prosecutors said.
Ex-Keppel lawyer cooperated with U.S. in bribery probe: documents
(Reuters) – A former lawyer at Keppel Corp Ltd’s oil rig building business secretly pleaded guilty and cooperated with U.S. authorities before the Singapore-based company agreed to pay $422 million to settle charges it bribed Brazilian officials, accor…
Erie, Pennsylvania pummeled by record 5 feet of snow
(Reuters) – Snow piled up in Erie, Pennsylvania, on Wednesday after two days of record-breaking snowfall that had already surpassed 5 feet (1.5 meters), breaking city and state records, according to the National Weather Service.
GE to keep Rochester plant open
(Reuters) – U.S. industrial conglomerate General Electric Co said on Wednesday it would keep its plant running in Rochester, New York, retaining all employees at the facility for now.
Poll: Hugs and dirty jokes – Americans differ on acceptable behavior
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Americans differ widely in their views of what constitutes sexual harassment, with age and race as well as gender throwing up the dividing lines, posing a challenge for those who police for such conduct in the workplace.
Los Angeles-Tokyo flight turns back after passenger mix-up
(Reuters) – A Tokyo-bound jet returned to Los Angeles International Airport on Tuesday because the crew learned four hours into the flight that a passenger was on the wrong plane, All Nippon Airways (ANA) said in a statement.
Obama urges ‘leaders’ not to split society with online biases
LONDON (Reuters) – Former U.S. president Barack Obama said the way people communicate via social media risked splintering society and leaders had to ensure the Internet did not cocoon users within their own biases.
New York removes misleading nuclear fallout shelter signs
NEW YORK (Reuters) – New York City has quietly begun removing some of the corroding yellow nuclear fallout shelter signs that were appended to thousands of buildings in the 1960s, saying many are misleading Cold War relics that no longer denote functio…
Obama warns that society being splintered by online biases
LONDON (Reuters) – Former U.S. president Barack Obama said the way people communicate via social media risked splintering society and leaders had to ensure the Internet did not cocoon users within their biases.
NHL: Maple Leafs’ goaltending great Bower dies at 93
(Reuters) – Hall of Fame ice hockey goaltender Johnny Bower died of pneumonia on Tuesday at the age of 93, his family have said.
