Ex-Dean Foods chairman’s story in Walters trial comes under fire
(Reuters) – A lawyer defending Las Vegas sports gambler William “Billy” Walters against insider trading charges on Wednesday sought to discredit former Dean Foods Chairman Tom Davis, who told jurors he used a special “bat phone” to give Walters confide…
California State University system votes to raise tuition
LONG BEACH, Calif. (Reuters) – Trustees for the 23 California State University campuses on Wednesday voted to increase tuition for the nation’s largest four-year public university system by 5 percent despite loud protests from students.
Immigrant whose daughter appealed to pope requests asylum in U.S.
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – A Mexican immigrant whose daughter appealed to Pope Francis three years ago to stop his deportation from the United States requested asylum at a federal court hearing in Los Angeles on Wednesday.
Security tightened at UK sites in New York after London attack
NEW YORK (Reuters) – New York police ramped up security at British sites across the city on Wednesday after an assailant fatally stabbed a policeman outside Britain’s parliament and was then shot and killed by police.
Plan for $7.5 billion Kushner family New York tower faces hurdles: report
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The family-owned company that until recently was headed by U.S. President Donald Trump’s son-in-law hopes to turn an aging New York office tower into a signature development that could be worth up to $12 billion, a report said on W…
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.
