Tennessee commission to consider asking for God’s mercy for gay marriage
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (Reuters) – A county commission in Tennessee on Tuesday night will consider a resolution asking God to spare citizens from the wrath of God that may rain down on them as a result of the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling legalizing gay marria…
Planned Parenthood seeks class action status after Arkansas cuts payments
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (Reuters) – Planned Parenthood has sought class action status for its Medicaid patients in Arkansas after a U.S. judge ordered the state to continue payments to three women who challenged Arkansas’ move to halt payments to the organiz…
Grandmother wins $310.5 million Michigan Powerball jackpot
(Reuters) – A 50-year-old Michigan grandmother won last week’s $310.5 million Powerball jackpot, the Michigan Lottery announced on Tuesday.
Former President Carter mediating dispute between Martin Luther King heirs
ATLANTA (Reuters) – Former President Jimmy Carter is helping settle a dispute between Martin Luther King Jr.’s children over whether to sell King’s 1964 Nobel Peace Prize medal and the Bible he carried during the civil rights movement.
Texas plans to execute a man who killed, robbed victim of $8
AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) – Texas plans on Tuesday to execute a man who was convicted of fatally shooting a recently arrived Mexican immigrant in the head and robbing him of $8.
Eleven dead in historic South Carolina rains and flooding
WEST COLUMBIA, S.C. (Reuters) – Floodwaters from unprecedented rainfall in South Carolina have killed 11 people, closed some 550 roads and bridges and prompted hundreds of rescues of people trapped in homes and cars, officials said on Monday.
Clinton TV ad rallies supporters on Benghazi investigation
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Democrat Hillary Clinton is attempting to rally her supporters and stoke outrage with a new television advertisement that criticizes Republican remarks on investigations into the September 2011 attack in Benghazi that killed four…
Oregon college shaken by massacre reopens with counselors, comfort dogs
ROSEBURG, Ore. (Reuters) – Students still shaken from the deadly mass shooting at an Oregon community college days ago were welcomed back to campus Monday by grief counselors, comfort dogs and words of encouragement from faculty, but classes remained c…
Body found in search for U.S. ship that vanished in hurricane
MIAMI (Reuters) – Missing cargo ship El Faro, hit by powerful Hurricane Joaquin, is believed to have sunk off the Bahamas and one presumed crew member is confirmed dead, the U.S. Coast Guard said on Monday.
Montana hunter fends off grizzly by sticking arm into its throat
(Reuters) – A hunter tracking elk in the Montana mountains said he fended off an attacking grizzly bear by shoving his arm into its throat to induce a gag reflex that would frighten it away, according to state wildlife managers.
