Cargo traffic congestion slowly easing at West Coast ports
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Cargo congestion at the two busiest U.S. container ports has eased considerably in the six weeks since West Coast dockworkers and shippers reached a tentative labor deal, but port officials said it would take several more weeks …
Investigators recover skeleton found in hills above Los Angeles
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Coroner’s office investigators on Wednesday recovered skeletal human remains found in the Hollywood Hills above Los Angeles, but said it was too early to tell the age or gender of the body or say how it came to be there.The bone…
Canadian diplomat’s son killed, brother arrested in Miami shooting: media
MIAMI (Reuters) – The 15-year-old son of a Canadian diplomat was arrested by Miami police and charged with murder after he was allegedly involved in a drug-related shooting in which his teenage brother and another man were killed, according to news rep…
Arkansas governor seeks fix of religion bill seen as targeting gays
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (Reuters) – Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson told lawmakers on Wednesday to revise a bill that rights activists and U.S. businesses said allowed discrimination against gays, and home-state corporate giant Wal-Mart Stores Inc praised h…
Detroit mom charged with killing children found in freezer
DETROIT (Reuters) – A Detroit mother has been charged with torturing and murdering two of her children found last month in a freezer in her apartment, prosecutors said on Wednesday.
Protesters charged after U.S. Supreme Court disruption
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Protesters disrupted U.S. Supreme Court proceedings for the third time in just over a year on Wednesday, with several shouting denunciations of campaign finance rulings before the nine justices heard oral arguments in a bankruptc…
Despite cancer’s remission, Connecticut teen stuck in state custody
MILFORD, Conn. (Reuters) – A Connecticut teenager with cancer who took her fight to stop her chemotherapy treatments to the state’s Supreme Court must remain in custody of the state even though her disease has gone into remission, a judge ruled on Wedn…
N.Y. lawyer charged for alleged role in scheme over Maxim magazine
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A New York lawyer was charged on Wednesday over his alleged role in a scheme by a former United Parcel Service Inc executive’s son to fraudulently obtain millions of dollars to finance the purchase of Maxim magazine.
Exxon’s California refinery sale seen pushed back to 2016 by fire
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Exxon Mobil Corp’s planned sale of its Los Angeles-area oil refinery has been delayed until early next year at the earliest following a severe fire in February, four people familiar with the transaction said.
New Jersey college drops rapper Common as commencement speaker
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A New Jersey university that said this week hip-hop artist Common would deliver a commencement speech to its graduating class reversed course on Wednesday after complaints from local police about one of his songs.
