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…
Los Angeles County orders water fees to reach state cutback goal
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Los Angeles County officials voted on Tuesday to charge water users for over-consumption in areas hit with some of California’s toughest reduction mandates as the state withers from a four-year drought.
Obama signs bill reforming surveillance program
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama signed into law on Tuesday legislation passed by Congress earlier in the day reforming a government surveillance program that swept up millions of Americans’ telephone records.
$1 million bail for California woman charged in road rage death of Navy officer
SAN DIEGO (Reuters) – A San Diego judge set bail at $1 million on Tuesday for a 25-year-old woman charged with murder in what police said was a road rage killing of a U.S. Navy special operations officer on a busy freeway.
Deaths of two children in Connecticut home deemed ‘suspicious’
(Reuters) – A 5-year-old boy and 7-year-old girl were found dead on Tuesday in a Connecticut home where gas was detected, and police were treating the deaths as suspicious, the Hartford Courant reported.
Deaths of two children in Connecticut home deemed ‘suspicious’
(Reuters) – A 5-year-old boy and 7-year-old girl were found dead on Tuesday in a Connecticut home where gas was detected, and police were treating the deaths as suspicious, the Hartford Courant reported.
U.S. lab’s suspect anthrax may have been sent to Pentagon: official
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A suspect batch of anthrax may have been sent to the Pentagon after an Army laboratory in Utah mistakenly shipped out suspected live samples of the potentially lethal bacteria, a U.S. defense official said on Tuesday.
U.S. Congress reverses post September 11 surveillance program
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Senate on Tuesday passed legislation reforming a government surveillance program that swept up millions of Americans’ telephone records, sending the bill to the White House for President Barack Obama to sign into law.
U.S. Air Force opens bidding for new rockets, eyes quick turnaround
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Air Force on Tuesday formally kicked off a competition for development of new prototype rocket propulsion systems, and address the “urgent need” to end U.S. reliance on Russian engines to launch military and intelligence…
