North Dakota oil producers to miss out on $480 million tax cut
WILLISTON, N.D. (Reuters) – North Dakota’s oil industry will miss out on a roughly $480 million tax cut over the next six months due to the recent rise in crude prices.
Old African-American celebration given second life in New York
NEW YORK (Reuters) – An African-American celebration called Pinkster dating back to the 17th century is enjoying a quiet revival in New York, giving the city a fresh glimpse at the largely ignored contribution that black colonists made to America’s eme…
Wife of convicted San Francisco sheriff defends him in play
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – The wife of San Francisco’s sheriff delivered a sharp rebuke to his critics on Thursday when she performed a preview of her one-woman show about his conviction for domestic abuse in 2012.
U.S. swimming pools ban long breath-holding after deaths
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A U.S. Navy SEAL hopeful and his friend, an off-duty lifeguard, were barreling through underwater drills in a pool just 3.5 feet (1 meter) deep. No one realized anything was wrong until their limp, unconscious bodies were noticed b…
Missouri, Kansas students co-winners of National Spelling Bee
OXON HILL, Md. (Reuters) – Eighth-graders Gokul Venkatachalam of Chesterfield, Missouri, and Vanya Shivashankar of Olathe, Kansas, were co-winners of the Scripps National Spelling Bee on Thursday.
Five more victims’ remains found at Nepal crash site of U.S. helicopter
NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Authorities have found DNA evidence that five more people may have been on board a U.S. military helicopter that crashed during a humanitarian relief mission after the Nepal earthquake, a U.S. military spokesman said.
7.0 magnitude quake strikes offshore Alaska: USGS
(Reuters) – An earthquake with a magnitude of 7.0 struck off the southwest coast of Alaska late on Thursday, the U.S. Geological Survey reported.
Assisted suicide bill advances in California legislature
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (Reuters) – California lawmakers on Thursday revived a bill that would allow physician-assisted suicide in the most populous U.S. state, after a renewal of debate on end-of-life issues prompted by the death of 29-year-old Brittany Ma…
California horseman, beaten by deputies, is charged
(Reuters) – A California man who received a $650,000 settlement after being beaten by about a dozen sheriff’s deputies in a failed attempt to flee on horseback has been charged with felonies connected to the incident.
Creator of Silk Road website faces sentencing for drug scheme
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The accused mastermind behind the underground website Silk Road will be sentenced on Friday for orchestrating a scheme that enabled more than $200 million of anonymous online drug sales using the digital currency bitcoin.
