VW opposing UAW skilled trades worker vote at Tennessee plant
DETROIT (Reuters) – Volkswagen AG opposes a union representation vote by a small group of workers at the automaker’s sole U.S. vehicle assembly plant, according to a letter to Chattanooga, Tennessee, employees issued on Monday night.
California runner sues Nike after breaking leg on ‘dream run’
PORTLAND, Ore. (Reuters) – A Los Angeles distance runner who fell and broke her leg on a Nike Inc “dream run” adventure in Iceland has sued the sportswear maker for $1.3 million, claiming the run was unsafe, according to her lawsuit.
Man gets five-year sentence for attempted arson in Ferguson, Missouri
(Reuters) – A federal judge sentenced a St. Louis County man to five years in prison for trying to burn down a store in Ferguson, Missouri, during riots after a grand jury declined to charge a white officer who had killed an unarmed black 18-year-old.
U.S. justices skeptical of immigrant’s deportation appeal
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A majority of U.S. Supreme Court justices on Tuesday questioned whether a legal immigrant from the Dominican Republic who pleaded guilty in New York to attempted arson in 1999 has grounds to appeal his threatened deportation.
Former Wal-Mart executive, three others hurt when plane parachutes onto Arkansas road
(Reuters) – A small airplane piloted by a former Wal-Mart Stores Inc executive parachuted onto a Fayetteville, Arkansas, street on Tuesday after encountering difficulty, injuring the three people on board and the driver of a pickup truck.
Four charged in rappelling protest at NFL game in North Carolina
(Reuters) – Four people have been charged after protesters rappelled from an overhang of a stadium in North Carolina during an NFL game to protest construction of a natural gas export project in Maryland, Charlotte-Mecklenburg police said Tuesday.
Three-quarters of U.S. OPM hack victims still in dark
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Fewer than a quarter of 21 million federal workers hit by a major computer hack have been officially told that their personal information was compromised, six months after the breach was detected, a U.S. government official said …
Eight Virginia officers injured in fight with naked man
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Eight Virginia police officers were recovering on Tuesday from injuries during an attack by a naked man who allegedly set fire to his apartment, police said.
Top New York lawmaker ‘betrayed’ people for own profit -prosecutors
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Sheldon Silver, one of New York State’s most influential lawmakers for two decades, abused his position to earn millions of dollars in illegal kickbacks, federal prosecutors told a jury on Tuesday.
Texas attorney general’s lawyers ask judge to toss fraud charges
DALLAS (Reuters) – Lawyers for Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton have asked a state judge to dismiss a felony securities fraud indictment that threatens his political career, arguing in court filings that the grand jury investigation was flawed.
