U.S. charges New York mob suspects with vendetta arson, robbery
NEW YORK (Reuters) – U.S. prosecutors on Wednesday rounded up seven mob suspects on charges of robbery and a vendetta arson in which a reputed Bonanno crime family associate was accused of having a car torched because its driver cut him off at a traffi…
Mayor of Allentown, Penn., implicated in ex-official’s guilty plea
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The former top administrator of Allentown, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty on Wednesday to federal fraud charges, becoming the seventh person convicted in a long-running FBI pay-to-play investigation that includes Mayor Ed Pawlowski.
Illinois bills seek to legalize, tax marijuana sales to adults
CHICAGO (Reuters) – Illinois would legalize marijuana for recreational use by adults and tax it to raise at least $350 million a year for the cash-strapped state under legislation introduced on Wednesday.
Wisconsin man who threatened to kill Obama loses appeal
(Reuters) – A Wisconsin man who wrote on his Facebook page and told several others that he planned to kill then-U.S. President Barack Obama has lost his appeal of his conviction and three-year prison term for threatening the president.
Florida nightclub shooting victims sue gunman’s employer, widow
TAMPA, Fla. (Reuters) – More than 50 victims and survivors of the June 2016 massacre at a Florida nightclub sued the gunman’s employer and widow on Wednesday, blaming them for failing to prevent the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history.
White man who wanted to harm blacks arrested in New York stabbing: police
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A white man who police said traveled to New York City to harm black people turned himself in with knives in his pocket at a Manhattan police station on Wednesday, a day after authorities say he fatally stabbed a black man on a city…
U.S. justices reject Gorsuch in win for disabled student
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday rejected legal reasoning used by President Donald Trump’s high court nominee Neil Gorsuch in his role as an appellate judge, ruling in favor of an autistic student who said he was denied an ade…
Trump fights for support ahead of U.S. healthcare vote
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump and Republican congressional leaders appeared on Wednesday to be losing the battle to get enough support in the House of Representatives to pass their Obamacare rollback bill, watched by wary investors…
Puerto Rico governor grilled on timetable for PREPA deal
(Reuters) – Puerto Rico’s governor on Wednesday told a Congressional committee the island’s debt-laden power utility, PREPA, could undergo an in-court restructuring process akin to U.S. bankruptcy “if a [consensual] deal is not able to be executed.”
Tight supply, higher prices weigh on U.S. home sales
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. home resales fell more than expected in February amid a persistent shortage of houses on the market that is pushing up prices and sidelining prospective buyers.
