Snow snarls traffic in Washington; U.S. Midwest braces for more cold
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Heavier than expected snow snarled traffic in Washington on Tuesday, forcing Attorney General Eric Holder to cancel a trip to New York for the funeral of former Governor Mario Cuomo, while the U.S. Midwest prepared for brutal col…
Federal mediator arriving to join U.S. West Coast ports talks
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – A federal mediator was expected to arrive in southern California on Tuesday to take part in negotiations over a new contract between employers at 29 U.S. West Coast ports and the union representing some 20,000 dock workers.
Sirhan Sirhan, convicted in Robert F Kennedy death, denied freedom
(Reuters) – Sirhan Sirhan, who is serving a life sentence in prison for the June 1968 assassination of U.S. presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, failed to persuade a federal judge to set him free because he was innocent of the crime.
Rockslide on interstate injures two in rain-pelted Washington state
SEATTLE (Reuters) – A boulder toppled onto an interstate highway on Tuesday in the mountains east of Seattle, striking two semi-trailer trucks and a car and injuring two people as Washington state grappled with landslides and flooding, officials said.
‘Not so fast,’ New Mexico says to would-be lottery winner
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (Reuters) – A New Mexico man who thought he hit the jackpot with a scratch-off instant lottery ticket will not be getting the $500,000 he believed he had won, after officials determined that matches were due to a printing malfunction,…
Harold Hamm offers $975 million divorce check; ex-wife rejects it
(Reuters) – Harold Hamm, chief executive of oil driller Continental Resources who is embroiled in a bitter divorce, offered to pay his former wife $974.8 million, but she rejected a hand-written check delivered to her legal team, his lawyer said on Tue…
Minor earthquake hit Dallas area
DALLAS (Reuters) – An earthquake with a magnitude of 3.5 hit the Dallas area on Tuesday with no initial reports of injury or damage in the Texas city.
Pennsylvania agrees to keep mentally ill inmates out of solitary
PITTSBURGH (Reuters) – The Pennsylvania Department of Corrections has settled a lawsuit by agreeing to keep mentally ill inmates from being locked in solitary confinement and to improve their care, a spokeswoman said on Tuesday.
Bangladesh diplomat must face domestic worker’s U.S. lawsuit
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A U.S. judge on Tuesday rejected a request by a Bangladesh diplomat and his wife to dismiss a lawsuit by a former domestic worker who accused them of forcing him to work without pay in slavery-like conditions.
Blast near Colorado Springs NAACP chapter: police
DENVER (Reuters) – Authorities on Tuesday investigated an explosion near a building housing a chapter of the NAACP civil rights group in Colorado Springs.
