U.S. motorists kept pedal to metal in November, upping mileage
NEW YORK (Reuters) – U.S. motorists drove 1.1 percent more miles in November than a year earlier, federal data released on Tuesday showed, as slumping gasoline prices fuel what could be the biggest annual rise in domestic demand in three decades.
Obama to visit Selma for 50th anniversary of civil rights marches
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama will visit Selma, Alabama, in March to recognize the 50th anniversary of historic marches led by activists fighting against segregation and seeking to ensure African Americans’ right to vote, a White H…
Five Florida high school students charged in alleged gang rape
ORLANDO, Fla. (Reuters) – Five Florida high school football players have been charged with sexual battery in the alleged gang rape of a 16-year-old girl who recorded parts of the encounter on her iPod, prosecutors said on Tuesday.
Jury selection starts in Colorado cinema massacre trial
CENTENNIAL, Co. (Reuters) – A judge in Colorado began the process on Tuesday of choosing the jury for the murder trial of James Holmes, the former neuroscience graduate student who killed 12 people in July 2012 at a midnight screening of a Batman movie…
New York man charged with trying to buy ricin ‘death pills’ online
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A Manhattan man tried to buy the biological toxin ricin from an undercover agent posing as a drug vendor on an online black marketplace, U.S. authorities said in criminal charges unsealed on Tuesday.
Teen charged with killing mother in Bali allowed defense fund
CHICAGO (Reuters) – A Chicago-area woman will be allowed access to about 10 percent of her $1.56 million trust fund to help pay for her defense on murder charges in the death of her mother at an Indonesian resort, an Illinois judge ruled on Tuesday.
Chicago man gets jail for illegal lobbying for Zimbabwe’s Mugabe
CHICAGO (Reuters) – A Chicago man was sentenced to 15 months in prison on Tuesday for illegal lobbying on behalf of Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe and others to try to lift economic sanctions against the African nation.
New outbreak of avian flu found in Washington state
SEATTLE (Reuters) – A third outbreak of avian flu has been detected in Washington state, prompting agriculture officials on Tuesday to warn bird owners to keep their flocks away from migratory birds that have spread viruses from Oregon to British Colum…
Most police on U.S. public college campuses are armed: report
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – More than 90 percent of campus law enforcement officers at public U.S. colleges are armed, according to a branch of the Justice Department.
Two Yemenis charged in U.S. court over alleged al Qaeda link
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Two Yemeni men were charged in the United States with working with al Qaeda and conspiring to attack U.S. military forces in Afghanistan in 2008, according to a complaint unsealed on Tuesday.
