California lawmakers seek to end ‘personal belief’ vaccine exemptions
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Responding to an outbreak of measles that has infected more than 100 people, two California lawmakers said on Wednesday they would introduce legislation to end the right of parents in the state to exempt their children from scho…
Brother of Nevada Senator Reid arrested for drunk driving, assault
(Reuters) – The brother of U.S. Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid was arrested in Nevada this week on charges of driving under the influence of alcohol and assaulting a police officer, a state police spokesman said on Wednesday.
California says will appeal ruling making foie gras legal
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – California’s attorney general on Wednesday filed notice that her office will appeal a federal judge’s decision that overturned the state’s two-year ban on sales of foie gras, a delicacy made from fatty duck and geese liver.
Ebola virus sent out of high-security lab was likely dead: CDC
CHICAGO (Reuters) – An internal investigation of an Ebola incident at a U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention laboratory in December found that samples sent to a lower-security lab were “unlikely” to have contained live virus and posed no thr…
Electrified rail pierced New York train in crash, official says
VALHALLA, N.Y. (Reuters) – Hundreds of feet of electrified rail skewered the first two carriages of a New York commuter train in a collision with a car at a railroad crossing, a federal investigator said on Wednesday, describing the area’s worst rail c…
Texas man arrested for fight at tax office over tightly folded money
AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) – A Texas man has been arrested for taking tightly wound currency into a county office to pay his $600 property tax bill and then launching a tirade when asked to help unfold the money, the Wichita County Sheriff’s Office said o…
Brother of Nevada Senator Reid arrested for drunk driving, assault
(Reuters) – The brother of U.S. Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid was arrested in Nevada this week on charges of driving under the influence of alcohol and assaulting a police officer, a state police spokesman said on Wednesday.
Cuban immigrant gets six years over Eli Lilly heist in Connecticut
(Reuters) – A Cuban immigrant who pleaded guilty to having a role in the theft of more than $50 million of pharmaceuticals from an Eli Lilly and Co warehouse in northern Connecticut was sentenced on Wednesday to 6-1/4 years in prison.
Son of Episcopal priest arrested in killing of father and two others in Texas
HOUSTON (Reuters) – The 19-year-old son of an Episcopal priest was arrested in Mississippi on Wednesday on charges of killing his father and two other family members this week in their Houston home.
California man pleads guilty to killings of five people in 2008
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – A California man charged with killing his ex-wife and four others in 2008, then torching her home, pleaded guilty on Wednesday to murder and arson in a plea deal that could spare him the death sentence if he testifies against a …
