FAA to name adviser to handle ‘crush’ of industry drone queries
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Federal Aviation Administration said on Wednesday that it would place a higher priority on integrating drones into the national air space by appointing a senior adviser to coordinate relations with industry and other outside …
Two years on, empty schools pose tough sell for Chicago
CHICAGO (Reuters) – Sitting at the dead end of a west side Chicago street, the vacant Ward elementary school is a gloomy sight.
Second hearing set for jailed Washington Post Iran reporter: ISNA
DUBAI (Reuters) – An Iranian court will hold a second hearing next week for Washington Post reporter Jason Rezaian, an American-Iranian on trial on espionage charges, Iran’s Students News Agency ISNA reported on Wednesday.
Los Angeles City Council to vote on $15 minimum wage
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – The Los Angeles City Council on Wednesday will vote on a proposal to increase the minimum wage in the nation’s second-largest city by 2020 to $15 an hour from the current $9, officials said.
Boston man shot by police was target of terrorism probe: officials
BOSTON (Reuters) – Law enforcement officers in Boston shot dead a man on Tuesday who came at them with a large knife when they tried to question him as part of a terrorism-related investigation, authorities said, describing him as a “threat.”
Suspect charged with shooting policemen in Ferguson to appear in court
(Reuters) – A man accused of wounding two policemen during a protest rally in March outside the police headquarters in Ferguson, Missouri, will appear in court on Wednesday for an arraignment hearing, court records showed.
American Nobel chemistry laureate Irwin Rose dies at 88
(Reuters) – American Nobel laureate Irwin Rose, a biochemist whose groundbreaking work helped in the development of treatments for cervical cancer and cystic fibrosis, died on Tuesday, the University of California, Irvine said. He was 88.
For green activists, Arctic drilling could be the next big thing
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Michael Brune is pleased that activists in kayaks are training for another “Paddle in Seattle” to confront an expected Royal Dutch Shell rig on its way to the Arctic to explore for oil. What makes the head of the Sierra Club just…
One dead, eight injured in Chicago bus crash: local media
(Reuters) – One person was killed and eight were injured on Tuesday when a Chicago bus ran up onto a downtown sidewalk during the afternoon rush hour, local media reported.
California officials reach settlement on path to resuming executions
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Authorities in California, where the death penalty has been on hold since 2006, have reached a court settlement that would require the state to create lethal injection rules that could allow it to resume executions, officials sa…
