U.S. to investigate livestock research center over animal abuse reports
CHICAGO (Reuters) – The U.S. Agriculture Department’s Office of the Inspector General has assembled an audit team and plans to begin field work this month in an inquiry of the government’s key livestock study center amid media reports of animal welfare…
NFL’s tax-exempt status is again under fire in Congress
WASHINGTON xx (Reuters) – Congressman Jason Chaffetz insists his bid to overturn the NFL’s decades-old tax-exempt status has nothing to do with political posturing or electioneering.
Amtrak train, truck collide in North Carolina, causing minor injuries
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (Reuters) – An Amtrak passenger train derailed after crashing into a tractor trailer truck in North Carolina on Monday, sending some 40 passengers to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries, state officials said.
Wisconsin family, protesters seek justice for teen shot by police
MADISON, Wis. (Reuters) – Close to 2,000 students marched in Wisconsin’s capital on Monday to protest the fatal police shooting of an unarmed biracial teenager, while his family demanded justice and the police chief apologized.
Case opens against Alabama woman accused of running granddaughter to death
GADSDEN, Ala. (Reuters) – An Alabama woman accused of killing her granddaughter acted like a military drill instructor when she forced the 9-year-old to run back and forward in a yard carrying wood for almost three hours as punishment for lying about h…
Colorado police say black man fatally shot last week was unarmed: report
DENVER (Reuters) – Police in the Denver suburb of Aurora said on Monday that an individual who was fatally shot by an officer during an incident on Friday was an unarmed 37-year-old black man, the Denver Post newspaper reported.
Philadelphia’s ‘Black Madam’ found guilty in buttocks injection death of Londoner
(Reuters) – A Philadelphia hip-hop artist known as the “Black Madam” was found guilty on Monday of third-degree murder in the accidental killing of a British woman by an illegal injection of silicone into her buttocks, court officials said.
Florida bans use of ‘climate change’ by state agency: report
ORLANDO, Fla. (Reuters) – Climate change activists blasted Florida Governor Rick Scott on Monday for leading an “Orwellian” campaign to ban employees of the state’s lead environmental agency from using such terms as “global warming” and “climate change.”
Florida probing cyber-attacks that delayed school testing
TAMPA, Fla. (Reuters) – Florida authorities are investigating cyber-attacks that delayed newly computerized standardized school testing last week, the state education commissioner and the head of the state law enforcement department said on Monday.
Oklahoma University shuts ‘disgraceful’ fraternity for racist video
NORMAN, Okla. (Reuters) – The University of Oklahoma closed a fraternity linked to a video of students singing racial epithets, ordered its members to move out of the house and labeled the actions of those involved “disgraceful.”
