Los Angeles gives preliminary approval to $15 minimum wage
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – The Los Angeles City Council voted on Tuesday to increase the minimum wage in the nation’s second-largest city to $15 an hour by 2020 from the current $9, in a victory for labor and community groups that have pushed for similar …
Thousands of Seattle teachers hold one-day strike over pay, class size
SEATTLE (Reuters) – Thousands of Seattle teachers walked out of class on Tuesday to demand higher pay and smaller class sizes, marking the largest one-day strike in a series of rolling protests by educators in Washington state over public school fundin…
Florida students forced into vaginal probes by college: lawsuit
ORLANDO, Fla. (Reuters) – Two female college students said they were forced to endure almost weekly vaginal probes in front of classmates and instructors as part of a medical diagnostic sonography class at a Florida community college, according to a ci…
U.S. House defense appropriations panel also funds Boeing jets
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The third of four key U.S. congressional committees on Tuesday approved funding for 12 additional Boeing Co fighter jets in fiscal 2016, increasing the prospects that the company will keep its St. Louis production line running pa…
Jury decides Chicago police shooting of black teen was justified
CHICAGO (Reuters) – A civil trial jury ruled on Tuesday that a Chicago police officer did not use unjustified force in the 2011 fatal shooting of an 18-year-old black man.
Prostitute pleads guilty in Google executive’s heroin death
(Reuters) – A prostitute charged with killing a Google executive by injecting him with heroin on his yacht off the California coast pleaded guilty on Tuesday to involuntary manslaughter, court officials said.
Former security guard accused of aiding Kentucky bourbon theft ring
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (Reuters) – A former security guard for a Kentucky distillery was indicted on Tuesday for looking the other way while thieves stole rare bourbons and other expensive whiskeys, prosecutors said.
Montana teen fatally shoots friend in case of mistaken identity, police say
(Reuters) – A Montana teenager fatally shot his 15-year-old friend after mistaking him for an intruder when the boy threw a rock at his bedroom window in the predawn hours and then stuck his head through it, police said on Tuesday.
Conductor hurt in Philadelphia train derailment sues Amtrak
(Reuters) – A conductor critically injured in last week’s deadly train derailment in Philadelphia has sued Amtrak, accusing the publicly funded passenger rail company of negligence, his lawyer said on Tuesday, adding to a string of lawsuits since the c…
Military identifies U.S. Marine killed in Hawaii training accident
SEATTLE (Reuters) – A U.S. Marine killed when a military aircraft made a “hard landing” during a training exercise in Hawaii was identified on Tuesday as a 24-year-old from Spokane, Washington.
