Former contracting official charged in U.S. Navy corruption case
SAN DIEGO (Reuters) – A former U.S. Navy contracting official on Tuesday became the ninth person charged in a wide-ranging corruption investigation of a Singapore-based defense contractor, officials said.
Man arrested in San Francisco body parts case will not face charges
(Reuters) – A San Francisco man arrested on suspicion of murder in connection with a dismembered body found in a suitcase left on a city street will not face charges due to insufficient evidence, prosecutors said on Tuesday.
Tough talk from Shell, union as U.S. refinery pay talks resume
HOUSTON (Reuters) – Negotiations made no progress on Tuesday as Royal Dutch Shell Plc and union leaders haggled over a new wage contract for U.S. refinery workers who have been on strike for three days, the union said.
House votes to repeal and eventually replace Obamacare
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. House of Representatives added another notch to its lengthy record of Obamacare repeal votes on Tuesday by approving a measure that would scrap the healthcare law and direct oversight committees to come up with a replace…
California man arraigned in threats to Muslim civil rights group
SAN DIEGO (Reuters) – A San Diego-area man accused of placing a threatening phone call to one office of a Muslim civil rights group and sending a threatening message to another pleaded not guilty on Tuesday to hate crimes charges.
Same-sex couples poised to marry in Alabama after stay denied
(Reuters) – Same-sex weddings could begin in Alabama next week after a U.S. appeals court on Tuesday refused a request by the state’s attorney general to delay gay marriages until the U.S. Supreme Court decides whether states can forbid them.
Oregon adopts rules allowing industrial hemp crops
PORTLAND, Ore. (Reuters) – Oregon farmers could plant the state’s first industrial hemp crop this spring, a full year before businesses expect to start growing marijuana for recreational use, a state official said on Tuesday.
Washington state lawmaker wants to scrap daylight savings time
SEATTLE (Reuters) – A Washington state lawmaker is proposing a bill that would scrap the twice-yearly time switches required by daylight savings time and see the West Coast state join Arizona and Hawaii in sticking to one standard time.
Medical pot vending machine debuts in Seattle
SEATTLE/DENVER (Reuters) – Vending machines selling medical marijuana opened for business in Seattle on Tuesday, in what the company providing them billed as a first-in-the-state innovation that it expects to expand to other cities and states where pot…
Toyota ordered to pay $11 million in U.S. trial over fatal crash
(Reuters) – A U.S. jury on Tuesday ordered Toyota Motor Corp to pay nearly $11 million after finding that an accelerator defect in a 1996 Camry was at fault for a 2006 fatal car crash in Minnesota.
