Bottling company loses labor dispute after U.S. high court detour
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The soft drink bottling company that succeeded in reining in U.S. presidential powers by challenging the way President Barack Obama appointed National Labor Relations Board members has lost the underlying dispute that prompted th…
Tejano music star Emilio Navaira dies at age 53 in Texas
SAN ANTONIO (Reuters) – Grammy Award-winning musician Emilio Navaira, who helped take Tejano music from a Texas-based regional genre to international acclaim, has died at the age of 53, police and his publicist said on Tuesday.
Air turbulence injures flight attendants on flight to Chicago
CHICAGO (Reuters) – A Southwest Airlines flight from Boston to Chicago encountered strong turbulence that injured two flight attendants and forced the plane to land early on Tuesday for safety reasons, the airline said.
Los Angeles schools reach $88 million settlement for sex abuse: report
(Reuters) – The Los Angeles Unified School District has agreed to pay $88 million to settle two sexual abuse cases involving now-imprisoned former elementary school teachers of the second largest public school system in the United States, according to …
Boston men jailed for Trump-inspired hate crime attack
BOSTON (Reuters) – Two Boston brothers accused of urinating on and beating a homeless Mexican man and telling police “Donald Trump was right: All these illegals need to be deported,” were sentenced to prison on Monday, prosecutors said.
Supreme Court dodges major decision on Obamacare birth control
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The ideologically deadlocked Supreme Court on Monday failed to resolve a major case involving the Obamacare law’s mandatory birth control coverage, telling lower courts to reconsider the matter after tossing out their rulings fav…
Red tuna crabs carpet Southern California beaches again
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Masses of tiny red crustaceans known as tuna crabs have washed up for a second straight year along stretches of the Southern California shoreline in a phenomenon marine scientists say is linked to warmer ocean currents flowing u…
Two former L.A. Sheriff’s deputies guilty of beating inmate: prosecutors
(Reuters) – A federal court found two former Los Angeles County Sheriff’s deputies guilty of beating, kicking and pepper spraying a mentally ill jail inmate in the largest county jail system in the United States, prosecutors said.
St. Louis officer charged with 2011 murder of black man
(Reuters) – A former St. Louis police officer was charged on Monday with first-degree murder for killing a black man in 2011 after a car chase, prosecutors said.
Sinead O’Connor found safe after going missing in Chicago area
CHICAGO (Reuters) – Irish-born singer Sinead O’Connor turned up safe at an undisclosed location on Monday, hours after police in Illinois said she was missing, citing a concerned caller who told authorities she had failed to return from a bicycle ride….
