Texas Senate passes $4.5 billion tax cut bill
AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) – The Texas Senate on Wednesday approved a bill to cut about $4.5 billion in taxes, with most of the cuts in property taxes and a franchise tax paid by businesses.
As oil prices slide, North Dakota sees manufacturing in its future
WILLISTON, N.D. (Reuters) – Business and community leaders in North Dakota’s western oil patch have launched an aggressive campaign to convince more manufacturers to set up shop locally, part of a push to expand the area’s economy beyond crude producti…
Texas gets new batch of execution drug after supply ran short
AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) – Texas has received a new stock of a lethal injection drug after its supply of the sedative it uses in executions fell to just one batch, prison officials said on Wednesday.
North Carolina State disbands fraternity after discovery of offensive remarks
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (Reuters) – North Carolina State University said on Wednesday it had disbanded a fraternity and would review all fraternity and sorority activities at the school after the discovery of a pledge book filled with racially and sexually…
Thousands commemorate historic Selma, Ala., civil rights march
(Reuters) – Thousands of people gathered at the Alabama state capitol in Montgomery on Wednesday to mark the culmination 50 years ago of a march beginning in Selma and led by Martin Luther King Jr. that proved pivotal in the U.S. civil rights movement….
Unarmed Georgia man remembered by family at apartment where he was killed by police
TUCKER, Ga. (Reuters) – The family of an unarmed black man, who was naked when he was shot dead by police, on Wednesday visited the suburban Atlanta apartment complex where the 27-year-old war veteran, aspiring musician and devout Christian was killed….
Friends seek financial aid for family of U.S. civil rights leader Fauntroy
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Friends of civil rights leader Walter Fauntroy, who left Washington for the Middle East in 2012 and refuses to come home, asked the public on Wednesday to help his family financially.
Man shoots and kills wife, then himself outside Memphis grocery store
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (Reuters) – A man shot and killed his wife outside a Memphis grocery store early on Wednesday morning before killing himself, police said.
Detroit mom charged after children found dead in freezer
DETROIT (Reuters) – The mother of two children found dead in a freezer in a Detroit apartment was charged on Wednesday with felony child abuse while medical examiners try to determine whether the children were murdered, prosecutors said.
U.S. Supreme Court revives pregnant worker’s case against UPS
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday sided with a former driver for UPS Inc by giving her another chance to argue that the package delivery company discriminated against her when it refused to lighten her work duties while she was…
