Texas mortuary owner faces trial over rotting bodies
FORT WORTH, Texas (Reuters) – The owner of a Fort Worth mortuary where corpses were left to rot stood trial on Wednesday on charges of taking money from clients for funerals and not properly attending to the bodies.
Obama invites Texas student arrested for homemade clock to White House
AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) – A Texas teenager taken away in handcuffs this week for bringing to his Dallas-area school a homemade clock that staff mistook for a bomb won a personal invitation from President Barack Obama on Wednesday to visit the White Hou…
Los Angeles prosecutors charge surgeon, others in $150 million scam
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – An orthopedic surgeon and more than a dozen associates bilked insurance companies out of more than $150 million in a scheme that included an assistant who never attended medical school but operated on patients, Los Angeles prose…
Pharmacy workers in Target’s New York store win right to form microunion
CHICAGO (Reuters) – A group of pharmacy workers within Target Corp’s store in Brooklyn, New York have won a vote to form a microunion within the store, according to a filing on the National Labor Relations Board’s website and union officials.
Accused gunman in Charleston church shooting proposes guilty plea
CHARLESTON, S.C. (Reuters) – An attorney for the man accused of gunning down nine people at a historic black church in South Carolina in June said on Wednesday his client is willing to plead guilty to state murder charges if that would spare him a deat…
Obama presses for funding bill amid Republican disarray
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama urged the U.S. Congress on Wednesday to avoid a government shutdown starting Oct. 1, as Republican leaders in the House of Representatives struggled to find a way to get enough votes to pass a funding bill….
Search for bodies after Utah floods kill at least 18
SALT LAKE CITY (Reuters) – Rescuers searched for a 6-year-old boy and a hiker missing on Wednesday after flash floods in southern Utah killed at least 18 people in a national park and a small town on the Arizona border.
Beverly Hills police plan no action over luxury car speedsters caught on video
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Beverly Hills police cannot arrest or cite either of the drivers of two luxury cars caught on video speeding along narrow residential streets over the weekend because an officer did not witness the incident, a spokesman said on …
White House all-clear given after lockdown over unattended package
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The White House was placed on a security lockdown for close to an hour on Wednesday because of an unattended package found across the street in Lafayette Park, a Secret Service spokeswoman said.
Pennsylvania hospital ends pursuit of confiscated wine
HARRISBURG, Pa. (Reuters) – A Pennsylvania hospital will not appeal a court ruling denying its request to auction off hundreds of bottles of vintage wine confiscated from a connoisseur, its lawyer said on Wednesday, opening the way for the state police…
