Legionnaires’ deaths prompt New York mayor to vow cooling tower regulations
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Mayor Bill de Blasio said on Tuesday a historic outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease that killed seven New Yorkers has triggered an effort to mandate city-wide inspections and cleanings of air conditioning cooling towers.
Missouri police officer who killed black teen speaks out: magazine
(Reuters) – The white police officer who last year shot and killed Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, says he has been unable to find another policing job and still feels threatened by critics who blame him for killing the unarmed black teenager, acc…
Family of woman found dead in Texas jail files wrongful death suit
AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) – The family of Sandra Bland filed a wrongful death lawsuit on Tuesday against a Texas trooper, a sheriff’s office and her jailers, accusing them of being responsible for the woman’s apparent suicide in a county jail.
University of Cincinnati creates safety post after fatal shooting
(Reuters) – The University of Cincinnati has set up a new post for safety and reform to review on-campus policing following the fatal shooting of an unarmed black man by a university police officer last month, the school said on Tuesday.
U.S. restaurants betting on ‘Breakfastarians’ for growth
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Call it the rise of the “Breakfastarians” – the dining tribe that craves breakfast food morning, noon and night.
U.S. Senate takes up cybersecurity bill this week
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Senate will consider a cybersecurity bill this week that would make it easier for corporations share Americans’ personal information with each other or the government, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said on Tuesd…
Lawsuit challenging New York’s use of toll money is revived
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A federal appeals court revived a class-action lawsuit by commercial truckers that accused the New York State Thruway Authority of charging illegally high tolls, and diverting excess sums it collected to maintain obsolete upstate c…
ACLU suit says Kentucky school officer shackled disabled children
(Reuters) – The American Civil Liberties Union filed a federal lawsuit accusing a school resource officer in Kentucky of handcuffing two disabled children to punish them for behavior related to their disabilities, ACLU officials said on Tuesday.
Father, daughter killed in New Hampshire circus tent collapse
(Reuters) – A father and daughter were killed and about 32 people injured when a circus tent collapsed in New Hampshire during a wind storm, officials said on Tuesday, as they began an investigation of why the show went on in the face of a severe weath…
Boston-area police officer charged with punching handcuffed suspect
BOSTON (Reuters) – A Boston-area police officer pleaded not guilty on Tuesday to charges of repeatedly punching a handcuffed suspect he had taken into custody and then lying about it, according to local prosecutors and police.
