20-foot deep sinkhole in New Jersey forces home evacuations
(Reuters) – A 20-foot deep sinkhole forced the evacuation on Tuesday of four New Jersey homes after crumbling part of a roadway and swallowing up a car, police said.
Obama mercury air pollution rule faces test at U.S. top court
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The latest legal test of President Barack Obama’s environmental agenda reaches the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday as the justices consider a challenge to a regulation intended to limit emissions of mercury and other hazardous po…
Court rules PSEG may be entitled to recover Sandy storm-surge losses
(Reuters) – Public Service Enterprise Group Inc., New Jersey’s largest power utility, may be entitled to recover hundreds of millions of dollars more from its insurers for losses caused by the storm surge associated with Superstorm Sandy in 2012, a sta…
West Virginia police hunt escaped murder suspect
(Reuters) – A murder suspect escaped from a West Virginia state mental hospital, police said.
Robert Durst denied bail in New Orleans, linked to Vermont cold case
NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) – Robert Durst, the real estate scion awaiting extradition to California to face a murder charge, was denied bail on Monday in New Orleans, as police in Vermont said they were probing a link between him and an 18-year-old woman wh…
Virginia police say no evidence for Rolling Stone’s college rape story
(Reuters) – A police investigation has found no evidence to back up a discredited Rolling Stone magazine story about a gang rape at a University of Virginia fraternity, officials said on Monday.
Man accused of weekend abduction dies in Wisconsin: media
(Reuters) – A man accused of abducting a woman from a southeastern Wisconsin hospital on Sunday and then abandoning her and fleeing following a gunfight with police died on Monday evening, local broadcaster WISN-TV in Milwaukee reported.
Arizona governor calls for review of Common Core standards
(Reuters) – Arizona Republican Governor Doug Ducey on Monday called on his state’s education board to review the Common Core education standards “in their entirety.”
Five wounded in shooting near university in Tennessee
(Reuters) – Five people were wounded in a shooting a few blocks away from the campus of a Tennessee university on Monday night, and Clarksville police were still searching for perpetrator.
Milwaukee panel upholds dismissal of police officer over fatal shooting
(Reuters) – A former Milwaukee police officer who was fired after fatally shooting an unarmed black man with a history of mental illness violated department protocol and will not get his job back, officials decided at a hearing on Monday.
