Ex-NYU researcher reaches plea deal in China bribe scheme
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A former New York University associate professor has reached a plea deal ahead of a trial on charges that he conspired to receive bribes from a Chinese medical imaging company in exchange for information about his federally funded …
FBI offers $25,000 reward for tips on North Carolina gold heist
(Reuters) – The Federal Bureau of Investigation said on Wednesday it was offering up to $25,000 for information about the recent theft of an estimated $4.9 million in gold from an armored truck parked along a highway in North Carolina.
Conservative justices press Obama administration on mercury pollution rule
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court’s conservative majority on Wednesday signaled hostility toward the Obama administration’s refusal to consider costs before regulating emissions of mercury and other hazardous pollutants mainly from coal-fired power plants.
U.S. Army to give update on case of former war prisoner Bergdahl
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Army Forces Command at Fort Bragg in North Carolina said it will provide an update on Wednesday in the case of Army Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl, a former Taliban prisoner in Afghanistan who was released last summer.
Heave, ho: Elephants rescue 18-wheeler stranded on Louisiana road
NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) – When an 18-wheeler truck became stranded by the side of a Louisiana road, two elephants inside came to the rescue.
Union vote set at Boeing’s South Carolina plants, stokes labor rift
NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. (Reuters) – Boeing Co faces a union authorization vote next month by thousands of workers at its jetliner facilities in South Carolina, setting up a showdown in their long-running battle in the strongly anti-union state.
Oklahoma civil rights pioneer Nancy Davis dies at 88
OKLAHOMA CITY (Reuters) – Nancy Randolph Davis, a prominent Oklahoma civil rights activist who in 1949 became the first African-American to enroll at then segregated Oklahoma State University, has died at the age of 88, officials said on Wednesday.
Ex-U.S. Representative Jesse Jackson Jr. to be released from prison: USA Today
(Reuters) – Former U.S. Representative Jesse Jackson Jr. is set to be released from prison on Thursday to a halfway house in Washington, D.C., after spending roughly half of his 30-month sentence behind bars, USA Today reported.
Two dead in Nashville, Tenn. crash that shut down I-40 lanes
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (Reuters) – Two people were killed on Wednesday morning in a three-vehicle rollover accident in Nashville which shut down several lanes of Interstate 40 at the start of rush hour, police said.
U.S. ATF had to ditch $600,000 worth of surveillance drones: watchdog
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives spent about $600,000 on six drones that had so many defects they were never used for video surveillance as planned, and were eventually ditched, the Justice Department’…
