Illinois budget impasse generates more negatives: Moody’s
CHICAGO (Reuters) – Illinois added to the negative factors weighing on the state’s credit rating with the announcement last week that a monthly payment to pension funds would be delayed due to the ongoing budget impasse, Moody’s Investors Service said …
Progress on sentencing reform reveals waning police influence
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Shortly after legislation surfaced in the U.S. Senate to lower prison sentences for non-violent drug offenders, Fraternal Order of Police Executive Director Jim Pasco heard Vice President Joe Biden say what Pasco had suspected of…
Takata air bag recall to be expanded: U.S. regulator
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. regulators on Monday signaled they will expand a massive Takata Corp recall already affecting more than 19 million vehicles in the United States.
Family of five dead after SUV drives into Phoenix lake
(Reuters) – Three young children and their parents died in Arizona after the family’s sports utility vehicle drove into a lake in a suburb of Phoenix, authorities said.
More than half of Americans want tougher gun sale laws: survey
CHICAGO (Reuters) – The number of Americans who believe the United States should have stricter laws on firearms sales rose by 8 percentage points over the past year, with 55 percent of respondents to a Gallup poll released on Monday preferring tighter …
Southwest flight returns to L.A. after passenger fight
(Reuters) – A Southwest Airlines flight turned back to Los Angeles International Airport after a fight between two passengers late on Sunday, the airline, police and local media reports said.
Body found in freezer may be missing Florida girl: police
ORLANDO, Fla. (Reuters) – Police believe they have found the body of an 11-year-old Florida girl stuffed inside a freezer moved to the garage of the child’s grandmother, authorities said on Monday.
Connecticut forecasts $118.4 million shortfall in state budget
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Connecticut’s state budget will see a shortfall of $118.4 million by the end of the state’s fiscal year on June 30, mainly due to lower income tax collections, according to a forecast from the Office of Policy and Management (OPM) …
U.S. probing reports CIA chief’s personal email hacked: CNN
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The FBI and the Secret Service are investigating reports that CIA Director John Brennan’s personal email had been hacked, although no classified information had been accessed, CNN said.
U.S. top court spurns father’s appeal in Maryland police shooting case
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rejected a bid to reinstate $250,000 in damages awarded by a Maryland jury to the father of a man shot dead by a police during a SWAT-style predawn drug raid in 2005 that turned up only a small am…
