Cost to fix Flint water infrastructure could reach $1.5 billion: reports
(Reuters) – Fixing Flint, Michigan’s lead-contaminated drinking water infrastructure could cost as much as $1.5 billion, the city’s mayor said on Thursday after meeting with the governor to discuss the crisis, according to Detroit newspapers.
Pizza, rifles and tension: a night inside the Oregon protest
MALHEUR NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE, Oregon (Reuters) – The doorknob rattled. Two of the men occupying a federal biologist’s office in a stand-off over land rights hopped from their chairs and swung rifles toward the locked door.
Justice’s gay marriage order halts licenses in parts of Alabama
(Reuters) – Federal prosecutors in Alabama said probate judges should issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples despite being told otherwise by the state’s chief justice, but at least two counties on Thursday stopped giving out the licenses altogethe…
Georgia prosecutor to seek charges against officer in shooting death
ATLANTA (Reuters) – A prosecutor on Thursday said he would seek a murder charge against a white police officer who shot and killed an unarmed, naked black man at an apartment complex near Atlanta last year.
Judith Kaye, New York’s first woman chief judge, dies at 77
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Judith Kaye, the first female chief judge of New York state’s highest court, died on Thursday morning at the age of 77.
Suspended Guatemalan judge granted release on bond in U.S. soccer case
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A suspended Guatemalan judge who was arrested last month as part of a U.S. investigation into corruption in soccer’s world governing body FIFA won the right to be released from jail on Thursday on a $4 million bond.
Mother of ‘affluenza’ teen arrives back in Texas to face charges: live TV
FORT WORTH, Texas (Reuters) – The mother of a Texas teenager, derided for a defense of “affluenza” in his trial for killing four people while driving drunk, returned to Texas to face an indictment, live TV footage shown on broadcaster WFAA showed.
U.S. says 11.3 million Americans have signed up for 2016 Obamacare plans
NEW YORK (Reuters) – About 11.3 million Americans have signed up so far for individual health insurance in 2016 through HealthCare.gov and the state-based exchanges, the U.S. government said on Thursday.
Connecticut prosecutors challenge court’s ban on death penalty
HARTFORD, Conn. (Reuters) – Connecticut prosecutors argued on Thursday that the state’s Supreme Court erred when it ruled that a 2012 law ending capital punishment in the state applied to 11 inmates already on death row and asked justices to reverse th…
NY City settles lawsuits over police surveillance of Muslims
NEW YORK (Reuters) – New York City’s police department will install a civilian representative to help monitor its counterterrorism efforts as part of a settlement of two lawsuits claiming the department illegally targeted Muslims for surveillance, acco…
