Delta refinery, union reach deal on local issues, likely avoiding strike
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Delta Air Lines Inc’s Philadelphia-area refinery has struck a deal with the local union that will likely prevent the facility from joining the country’s largest U.S. refinery strike in 35 years.
New York airport alarm reveals stowaway dog in checked luggage
NEW YORK (Reuters) – U.S. security agents searching a checked suitcase after an alarm went off at New York’s LaGuardia Airport expected the usual contraband – guns, knives or a hand grenade – but instead found a stowaway Chihuahua, authorities said on …
U.S. Air Force eyes Textron plane, others for future air support
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Air Force is looking at Textron Inc’s Scorpion and other aircraft to address future needs for low-end air support missions given its plans to retire the aging fleet of A-10 Warthog planes in coming years, a top general s…
Tesla says Nevada battery plant on track despite report of delay
DETROIT (Reuters) – Tesla Motor Inc said on Friday that construction of its giant $5 billion battery plant in Nevada remains on schedule despite a newspaper report saying the electric carmaker’s project was delayed.
Prosecutors in Colorado cinema massacre trial seek to restrict graphic images
DENVER (Reuters) – Prosecutors in the murder case against Colorado cinema gunman James Holmes are asking that crime scene and autopsy photographs and videos of victims be restricted at the upcoming trial, court records showed on Friday.
Family sues Amazon.com, others over Ohio student’s caffeine overdose death
CLEVELAND (Reuters) – The family of a Northeast Ohio high school senior who died of a caffeine overdose last year filed a wrongful death lawsuit on Friday against several companies including Amazon.com Inc, which shipped the supplement.
Los Angeles, police union strike pay agreement: Los Angeles Times
(Reuters) – Los Angeles city officials and its police union took a step toward ending a lengthy and often tense labor dispute by reaching a tentative pay agreement on Friday that would grant raises in the last three years of a four-year contract, accor…
Accused Boston bomber’s lawyers gamble with guilt admission: experts
BOSTON (Reuters) – When they admitted Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s role in the Boston Marathon bombing, his lawyers acknowledged that he will almost certainly spend the rest of his life behind bars. But the admission may help spare him a death sentence, legal e…
Winter storm moves away; eastern U.S. to remain cold
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Record-breaking cold gripped the United States from Texas to New York on Friday, causing school closures and snarled traffic, as a storm that dropped roughly 2 feet (61 cm) of snow on some eastern parts of the country moved out t…
Two brothers charged in fatal shooting of Philadelphia police officer
(Reuters) – Two brothers were charged with murder on Friday stemming from the shooting death of a Philadelphia police officer during the botched robbery of a game store, authorities said.
