Boston delays Super Bowl parade until Wednesday due to storm
BOSTON (Reuters) – Boston will delay until Wednesday its parade to celebrate the New England Patriots’ Super Bowl victory, after Mayor Marty Walsh decided on Monday to push the event back a day because of a snowstorm pounding the city.
U.S. groundhog Punxsutawney Phil predicts six more weeks of winter
PUNXSUTAWNEY, Pa. (Reuters) – Punxsutawney Phil, the groundhog famous for his weather predictions, saw his shadow after emerging from his burrow atop Gobbler’s Knob in western Pennsylvania on Monday, forecasting six more weeks of winter.
Obama’s budget would allow pot sales in District of Columbia
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama’s $4 trillion budget would allow legal sales of marijuana in the District of Columbia by adding one word – “federal” – to spending language Congress approved last year.
NFL great Warren Sapp arrested for soliciting escort, assault in Phoenix
PHOENIX (Reuters) – National Football League Hall of Fame defensive tackle Warren Sapp was arrested at a Phoenix hotel on Monday on suspicion of soliciting a prostitute and assault, authorities said.
Four wounded in post-Super Bowl gunfight in California
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (Reuters) – Four people were shot and wounded and a fifth was badly beaten during a street brawl and gunfight that erupted late on Sunday in the aftermath of a Super Bowl party in Sacramento, police said.
Whitney Houston’s daughter ‘fighting for her life’
ATLANTA (Reuters) – The daughter of late pop star Whitney Houston is fighting for her life two days after being found unresponsive in a bathtub at her suburban Atlanta home, her family said on Monday.
Lawyers for Arizona lawman seek meeting in racial profiling case
PHOENIX (Reuters) – Lawyers for embattled Arizona lawman Joe Arpaio have asked a federal judge to order a settlement conference as they seek to ward off possible contempt charges stemming from a 2007 racial profiling case, court documents showed on Mon…
Toledo, Ohio, mayor in critical condition after cardiac arrest
(Reuters) – The mayor of Toledo, Ohio, was in critical condition at a northwest Ohio hospital on Monday, a day after suffering cardiac arrest while driving, his physician said.
Former Stanford swimmer pleads not guilty to rape charge
(Reuters) – A former member of the Stanford University swim team pleaded not guilty on Monday to felony charges he raped a drunk and unconscious woman outside a campus fraternity house, prosecutors said.
U.S. workers strike for second day at nine refineries; one to shut
HOUSTON (Reuters) – Union workers were on strike for a second day on Monday at nine U.S. refineries and chemical plants as they sought a new national contract with oil companies covering laborers at 63 plants.
