New York City settles inmate death lawsuit for $3.8 million
NEW YORK (Reuters) – New York City has agreed to pay $3.8 million to the family of a mentally ill inmate at its troubled Rikers Island jail complex who died in 2012 after swallowing corrosive detergent, a city official said on Tuesday.
Once ‘King,’ cotton farming on a long decline in U.S. south
CLARKSDALE, Miss. (Reuters) – Fields along the Mississippi River Delta once gleamed white in the autumn with acre upon acre of cotton ready to be picked.
AAA forecasts a smaller jump in Thanksgiving travel
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The number of motorists on U.S. roadways during the upcoming Thanksgiving holiday is likely to rise only modestly, AAA estimated on Tuesday, suggesting that the recent surge may be weakening as low gas prices become less of a novel…
Voters in four ‘heartland’ states favor Obama policy on Cuba: poll
HAVANA (Reuters) – Solid majorities of likely U.S. voters in Ohio, Indiana, Iowa and Tennessee favor diplomatic relations with Cuba and an end to trade and travel restrictions with the Communist-ruled island, a poll by the Atlantic Council showed on Tu…
Judge finds Boston police test discriminated against minorities
BOSTON (Reuters) – A U.S. federal judge has ruled that a test the Boston Police Department required for sergeants seeking promotion to lieutenant discriminated against minority candidates and urged the city and the 10 plaintiffs to reach a settlement d…
Chicago in tough battle to overturn ruling on pension reforms
CHICAGO (Reuters) – Cash-strapped Chicago faces an uphill fight before the Illinois Supreme Court on Tuesday to try to salvage a law aimed at boosting funding and lowering costs for two of its retirement systems.
Minneapolis mayor asks for federal probe of police shooting
MINNEAPOLIS (Reuters) – Minneapolis Mayor Betsy Hodges said on Monday she had requested a federal civil rights investigation into a police shooting over the weekend that seriously wounded a 24-year-old black man and set off protests.
U.S. firefighter gets world’s most extensive face transplant
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A volunteer firefighter from Mississippi whose face was burned off during a home fire rescue received the world’s most extensive face transplant, New York University Langone Medical Center said on Monday.
Venezuela pair held by U.S. for drugs were ‘kidnapped’: official
CARACAS (Reuters) – Two men said to be relatives of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro who are being held in the United States on cocaine smuggling charges were “kidnapped,” a senior member of the ruling Socialist Party said on Monday.
U.S. charges 28 in ‘sprawling’ Dallas healthcare fraud scheme
DALLAS (Reuters) – Twenty-eight people from the Dallas-Fort Worth area, including doctors and federal employees, have been charged in a scheme that defrauded the worker compensation program and cost the U.S. government $8.7 million, federal prosecutors…
