North Dakota postpones deadline for natural gas flaring rules
BISMARCK, N.D. (Reuters) – North Dakota regulators on Thursday gave the energy industry 10 extra months to reduce the amount of natural gas burned off at oil wells, acquiescing to industry worries that construction delays have made it all but impossibl…
Cleanup for pope’s Philadelphia Mass sweeps homeless aside
PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) – Amid misty waterfalls and art museums along the parkway where Pope Francis will hold a public Mass in Philadelphia Sunday, makeshift abodes belonging to some of the city’s homeless are coming down.
Texas mortuary owner sentenced to two years for letting bodies rot
FORT WORTH, Texas (Reuters) – The owner of a Fort Worth mortuary where corpses were left to rot for months will spend two years in prison for taking payments from clients and failing to provide funeral services, a jury decided on Thursday.
Idaho school requires cheerleaders to wear leggings with short skirts
SALMON, Idaho (Reuters) – An Idaho high school is requiring its cheerleaders to wear leggings or sweatpants under their uniforms after finding the short skirts were not suited for stairs or sitting without exposing the buttocks of teen girls, an admini…
‘Ghost Adventures’ guest stars found shot to death in Nevada
(Reuters) – Paranormal investigators Mark and Debra Constantino, who appeared on television series “Ghost Adventures,” were found shot to death in an apartment after a standoff with police in Nevada, authorities said on Thursday.
Aide to Arizona’s Sheriff Arpaio grilled at civil contempt hearings
PHOENIX (Reuters) – The top aide to Arizona’s controversial lawman Joe Arpaio testified on Thursday that he had been unaware of a federal judge’s ruling in a racial-profiling case that barred deputies from detaining people they suspected of being illeg…
Delaware to review police killing of black man in wheelchair
(Reuters) – The Delaware Department of Justice said on Thursday it would review the case of what has been described as police killing a wheelchair-bound black man who officers said had a gun.
U.S. insurance mega mergers could hurt care: psychiatric group
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The American Psychiatric Association warned U.S. antitrust regulators this month that two proposed health insurance deals could worsen access to mental health care services, adding to public opposition from several prominent doctor…
Charleston divvies $2.5 million in donations after church shooting
CHARLESTON, S.C. (Reuters) – Relatives of the nine people slain at a historic black Charleston church, as well as survivors of the June shooting, will share in $2.5 million donated from around the world to benefit the families, Mayor Joe Riley said on …
U.S. business spending slips, new home sales rise in August
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. business investment fell slightly in August, excluding spending on aircraft and defense equipment, but new home sales rose, suggesting that global economic headwinds were doing little to impede U.S. growth.
