Viking boats to cruise Mississippi River
NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) – Viking Cruises Ltd will establish its first North American beachhead, a homeport in New Orleans, and will offer cruises up the Mississippi River starting in 2017, the company and Louisiana officials announced.
Three-story building in NY City partially collapses
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A three-story building undergoing demolition partially collapsed on Manhattan’s West Side on Wednesday, injuring a construction worker and raining rubble onto a parked school bus and its driver.
U.S. justices show support for Muslim woman denied job due to head scarf
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A majority of U.S. Supreme Court justices on Wednesday signaled support for a Muslim woman who filed a lawsuit after she was denied a job at an Abercrombie & Fitch Co clothing store in Oklahoma because she wore a head scarf for religious reasons.
Washington, D.C. – from monuments to meetings
NEW YORK (Reuters) – It’s not all politics and no play in Washington, D.C.
U.S. high court ruling good for accused Boston bomber’s friend: lawyer
BOSTON (Reuters) – A friend of the accused Boston Marathon bomber convicted of obstructing the investigation into the deadly blasts may be exonerated due to a Supreme Court decision in an unrelated case, one of his attorneys said on Wednesday.
Ohio man accused of providing support for Middle East terror
(Reuters) – A judge on Wednesday set bail at $1 million for an Ohio man accused in state charges of providing support and money laundering in support of terror, prosecutors said without identifying the people he was accused of aiding.
Maryland 911 dispatcher who told caller to ‘stop whining’ leaves job
(Reuters) – A 911 emergency dispatcher who told a young caller to “stop whining” after her father was struck and killed by a car along a Maryland highway has left the position, a fire official said on Wednesday.
U.S. Senate votes to clear path for security agency funding
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Senate on Wednesday took steps to avert a partial shutdown within days of the U.S. domestic security agency, voting overwhelmingly to clear a path for passage of an agency funding bill free of contentious immigration ref…
Republicans shelve measure labeling Idaho a ‘Christian state’
SALMON, Idaho (Reuters) – A county branch of the Republican Party in Idaho voted to shelve for now a measure that would have labeled the state as Christian to bolster what supporters called the Judeo-Christian underpinnings of the United States.
More than 70 vehicles in pileup on snowy Maine interstate
AUGUSTA, Maine (Reuters) – More than 70 vehicles were involved in a major pileup on a snowy highway outside Bangor, Maine, on Wednesday, with at least 17 people injured, two seriously, state police said.
