Guard was wrong to silence school choir, 9/11 Memorial says
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A security guard who stopped a middle-school choir from singing the national anthem at the September 11 memorial in Manhattan acted inappropriately and the students are welcome to come back and sing the anthem, a memorial official …
U.S. appeals court restores Brady’s ‘Deflategate’ suspension
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A U.S. appeals court on Monday restored the four-game “Deflategate” suspension of New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady, handing the National Football League a victory in the latest round in a battle with one of its marquee pl…
Two accused in Mexican cartel lawyer slaying on trial in Texas
FORT WORTH, Texas (Reuters) – Two men accused of tracking an alleged high-level member of a Mexican drug cartel for two years to help set up his ambush slaying in Texas in 2013, go on trial on Monday afternoon in U.S. federal court in Fort Worth.
VW to go to U.S. court to keep 160 Tennessee plant workers from UAW
DETROIT (Reuters) – Volkswagen AG said on Monday it would go to a U.S. federal appeals court in an effort to keep the United Auto Workers union from representing a portion of the company’s plant workers in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
Dallas grand jury indicts former quarterback Johnny Manziel: reports
DALLAS (Reuters) – A Dallas County grand jury has indicted former NFL quarterback Johnny Manziel on a charge of misdemeanor assault with bodily injury after he allegedly struck his ex-girlfriend, media reported.
Boston mayor says not subject of federal probe into labor unions
BOSTON (Reuters) – Boston Mayor Martin Walsh, a former labor leader, said on Monday that federal agents had not contacted him in connection with what local media has described as a wide-ranging investigation into whether the city’s building unions used…
Police chief in Tennessee sorry over children’s arrests: newspaper
(Reuters) – The police chief in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, has apologized over the April 15 arrests of 10 students from an elementary school during the investigation of an alleged bullying incident, a spokesman said on Monday.
Illinois governor signs higher education stopgap funding bill
CHICAGO (Reuters) – Illinois Governor Bruce Rauner on Monday signed into law a bill to send $600 million to cash-starved state universities and community colleges, calling the measure “a first step toward compromise between Democrats and Republicans.”
American journalist says Turkey bars him from re-entry
ISTANBUL (Reuters) – An American reporter living and working in Turkey was barred from re-entering the country and forced to fly home on Monday in the latest incident in which a foreign journalist has been denied entry or accreditation.
U.S. motor travel rises at record pace in February
NEW YORK (Reuters) – U.S. motor travel surged at a record pace in February as Americans took to the road again after January’s historic snowstorms, U.S. data released on Monday showed, fueling optimism about gasoline demand as refiners brace for the bu…
