Illinois House passes bills to plug state budget gap
CHICAGO (Reuters) – The Illinois House of Representatives on Tuesday approved a bill that would plug a $1.6 billion hole in the state’s budget by cutting spending on most programs by 2.25 percent and tapping money from other funds.
Amy’s Kitchen recalls spinach products over listeria concerns
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Amy’s Kitchen Inc is recalling about 74,000 cases of products that might contain organic spinach contaminated with listeria, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said.
Family of alleged Facebook fraud fugitive to forfeit bail: U.S. judge
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The family of a New York man who became a fugitive after being criminally charged with trying to defraud Facebook Inc founder Mark Zuckerberg out of half of the social media company was ordered on Tuesday to forfeit his bail.
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.
