San Francisco Zoo offers spurned lovers cockroach, scorpion adoptions
(Reuters) – The San Francisco Zoo is giving the spurned and broken-hearted a new reason to mark Valentine’s Day – the chance to adopt a giant scorpion or hissing cockroach named after a heart-trampling ex.
Four sentenced in California cross-border extortion ring
SAN DIEGO (Reuters) – Four people who admitted to extorting money from Latino families who believed they were ransoming kidnapped family members were sentenced to prison in San Diego federal court Monday.
Alaskan troopers investigate whether village officer shocked boy, 11
JUNEAU, Alaska (Reuters) – A public safety officer patrolling a tiny Alaskan coastal community may have shocked an 11-year-old boy with a Taser or stun gun merely because the boy asked him about the device, the Alaska State Troopers said on Monday.
Union signals U.S. refinery workers may have to go on strike
HOUSTON (Reuters) – The United Steelworkers union (USW) signaled on Monday a strike by U.S. refinery workers may be necessary to win what it calls a fair contract from oil companies.
New York clinic that treated comic Joan Rivers sued over her death
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Joan Rivers’ daughter filed a malpractice lawsuit on Monday against the New York medical clinic that treated her mother days before her death, saying doctors there posed for selfies with their sedated celebrity patient even as her …
U.S. charges three in alleged Russian spy ring in NYC
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The U.S. government on Monday unveiled criminal charges against three men for their alleged involvement in a Russian spy ring operating in New York City.
Hundreds pack Idaho hearing on gay rights
SALMON, Idaho (Reuters) – A measure before the Idaho legislature that would grant job and housing protections for gay and transgender people drew more than 1,000 residents to the statehouse in Boise on Monday to voice their support or opposition.
E-cigarettes would be banned in public places under California bill
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (Reuters) – California would ban the use of electronic cigarettes in public places and ramp up enforcement against selling them to minors under a bill introduced in the legislature on Monday.
Small plane crash reported near Washington state naval base
SEATTLE (Reuters) – A small plane was reported to have crashed into the strategic Hood Canal in Kitsap County west of Seattle, and debris believed to be connected to the plane has been found, local and federal officials said on Monday.
Ex-CIA officer convicted in New York Times leak case
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A former CIA officer was convicted in federal court in Virginia on Monday of leaking classified information to a New York Times reporter about a failed U.S. effort to undermine Iran’s nuclear weapons program, the U.S. Justice Dep…
