Ginsburg explains nap during Obama speech: ‘I wasn’t 100 percent sober’
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg says there was a good reason she nodded off while attending President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address last month: “I wasn’t 100 percent sober.”
Union says no new strike notices issued to U.S. refineries
(Reuters) – The United Steelworkers union (USW) said no new strike notices were issued on Friday as the largest U.S. refinery strike since 1980 reached its 13th day.
Stan Chambers, Los Angeles TV journalism institution, dies at 91
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Stan Chambers, who joined KTLA-TV news in Los Angeles in the late 1940s, at the dawn of the television age, and spent six decades as a local TV journalism institution, died on Friday at the age of 91, the station said.
Maine Governor LePage asks top U.S. court to weigh in on Medicaid fight
AUGUSTA, Maine (Reuters) – Maine Governor Paul LePage has appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court in a dispute with the federal government over the state’s effort to trim some young people from its Medicaid rolls.
Two women survive after car falls off snowy New Jersey bridge
(Reuters) – Two women survived with only minor injuries after the car they were traveling in careened up a snowbank on the side of a New Jersey bridge on Friday, plunged 60 feet and landed upright near the bank of a river, according to police and local…
June trial for man accused of killing Virginia student Graham
FAIRFAX, Va. (Reuters) – The hospital worker accused of murdering University of Virginia student Hannah Graham will face trial in June on charges of raping a woman in 2005, a Fairfax County Circuit Court judge said on Friday.
Mexico condemns fatal shooting by police in Washington state
(Reuters) – The Mexican government is condemning this week’s fatal shooting by police in Washington state of a Mexico-born man who had thrown rocks at officers in an incident captured on video.
Houston arson investigators look at fire at Islamic center
HOUSTON (Reuters) – Houston Fire Department arson investigators are probing a blaze that destroyed a building at an Islamic institute in the city on Friday, officials said.
Police say found bullets, gun near ex-NFL star’s alleged victim
FALL RIVER, Mass. (Reuters) – Massachusetts State Police troopers found two bullets and a .22-caliber handgun near the body of a man prosecutors say former National Football League star Aaron Hernandez killed in June 2013, the officers testified on Fri…
Actor Emile Hirsch in rehab after alleged assault: lawyer
(Reuters) – Actor Emile Hirsch, star of the film “Into the Wild,” was being treated at an alcohol rehabilitation facility after he allegedly assaulted a film executive at the Sundance Film Festival last month in Utah, his lawyer said.
