California regulator seeks $1.6 billion penalty for deadly PG&E blast
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – California’s chief utility regulator on Friday urged a record $1.6 billion penalty against Pacific Gas & Electric stemming from its deadly 2010 San Bruno natural gas pipeline rupture and fire near San Francisco, a $200 million increase over an earlier proposal.
Pennsylvania teacher survives being impaled by trailer hitch
HARRISBURG, Pa. (Reuters) – A Pennsylvania school teacher who was left impaled for six hours by a trailer hitch that pierced her torso front to back in a traffic accident emerged in critical but stable condition on Friday from surgery to remove the met…
California grants 131,000 driver’s licenses to unauthorized immigrants
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (Reuters) – California issued about 131,000 driver’s licenses to undocumented immigrants in January and February, the first two months since the state began granting the permits to people who are in the country illegally, officials s…
Teen pleads not guilty to Washington state kidnapping caught on video
SEATTLE (Reuters) – A 15-year-old Washington state boy pleaded not guilty on Friday to kidnapping a toddler from a city park and running off with the baby boy, pursued by the child’s older siblings and two other youths, in an incident caught on video.
Transit ads linking Nazism and Islam may soon run in Philadelphia
(Reuters) – An ad campaign featuring an image of Adolf Hitler and linking Islam to Nazism could soon appear on Philadelphia-area buses after a court ruling this week that forces the regional transit authority to accept the campaign.
Strike at Marathon’s Galveston Bay plant to continue: USW official
HOUSTON (Reuters) – A strike by the United Steelworkers (USW) local union at the Marathon Petroleum Corp Galveston Bay Refinery in Texas City, Texas, will continue as long as the company refuses to accept the terms of a newly-negotiated national agreem…
Dozens of leads, no arrests in Missouri police shooting, chief says
FERGUSON, Mo. (Reuters) – Investigators are following dozens of leads in the hunt for whoever shot and wounded two police officers in Ferguson, Missouri, during a protest rally this week, the head of the St. Louis County police said on Friday.
Beer brand discord leads to Louisiana shooting: police
NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) – An argument between a 64-year-old man who wanted a Budweiser beer and his friend who handed him a can of Busch instead ended when the disgruntled recipient shot the other man in the arm, wounding him in a Louisiana parking lot, …
Three New York men plead not guilty to plot to aid Islamic State
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Three New York City residents pleaded not guilty on Friday to U.S. charges that they attempted to provide support to Islamic State militants.
Obama says more work needed to improve veterans’ care
PHOENIX (Reuters) – Making his first stop at a troubled veterans facility in Phoenix that sparked a political crisis for his administration, President Barack Obama said on Friday that progress has been made but more work is needed to address delays for…
