Virginia GOP sues governor over restoring voting rights to felons
RICHMOND (Reuters) – Virginia Republicans on Monday sued to nullify Democratic Governor Terry McAuliffe’s order restoring voting rights to 206,000 felons, a move that could affect the November presidential election.
Supreme Court again rejects Illinois ex-governor’s corruption appeal
(Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rejected for the second time flamboyant former two-term Democratic Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich’s appeal of convictions on corruption charges including attempted extortion, wire fraud and other crimes.
Smoky Mountains Park euthanizes wrong bear after hiker bitten
NASHVILLE (Reuters) – Officials at the Great Smoky Mountains National Park killed the wrong bear after a man who was hiking the Appalachian Trail was bitten in the leg earlier this month, a park spokeswoman said on Monday.
Former Illinois policeman, in prison for wife’s murder, faces new charges
(Reuters) – Drew Peterson, a former Chicago-area police officer who is in prison for murdering his wife, tried to hire someone in 2014 to kill the state’s attorney who won his conviction, prosecutors said on Monday at the start of Peterson’s murder-for…
Uber deal shows divide in labor’s drive for role in ‘gig economy’
(Reuters) – The International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers trumpeted an agreement reached earlier this month to represent New York Uber drivers, saying it “gives organized labor an opportunity to shape the new economy in a way that s…
At least seven sickened by chemicals at Florida Planned Parenthood
(Reuters) – At least seven people were taken to a hospital for evaluation after a substance thought to be cleaning chemicals made people ill and forced the evacuation of dozens at a Planned Parenthood building in Sarasota, Florida, on Monday, police sa…
U.S. states on Zika’s frontline see big gaps in funding, expertise
(Reuters) – In Mississippi, a small team of entomologists has begun the first survey of mosquito populations in decades. Experts do not believe the kind of mosquitoes most likely to carry the Zika virus are active in the state, but they cannot know for…
Election, court challenge and Zika ignite abortion debate across Americas
NEW YORK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – The debate over abortion, a focus of incessant controversy in the Americas, is heating up north and south as the region faces the election of a new U.S. president, a ruling by the highest U.S. court and the risk …
Twenty injured in southern California bus accident
(Reuters) – Twenty people were injured when the bus carrying them rolled over on a highway in southern California on Sunday, authorities said.
Bear bites one of two men who broke into North Dakota zoo, police say
(Reuters) – One of two men who broke into a zoo in North Dakota got his hand bitten by a brown bear after sticking his arm through the bars of the animal’s enclosure, police said on Sunday.
