Lawmakers want tougher vaccine exemptions amid measles outbreak
SEATTLE/PORTLAND, Ore (Reuters) – Several U.S. states are considering laws to make it harder for parents to legally opt out of vaccinating their children, as health officials fight a measles outbreak that has sickened some 120 people in more than a doz…
Navy plans more intensive review of H-53 helicopters
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Navy on Thursday said it was launching a more intensive effort to ensure that any wiring or fuel line problems with its CH-53E and MH-53E heavy-lift helicopters are corrected as quickly and effectively as possible.
Minnesota man bound for Turkey accused of lying to federal agents
MINNEAPOLIS (Reuters) – A Minnesota man pulled off an airplane bound for Turkey last year has been charged with repeatedly lying to federal agents investigating the recruitment of young U.S. residents to join Islamist militant groups, prosecutors said …
New York train was not speeding before crash with car
TARRYTOWN, N.Y. (Reuters) – The New York commuter train that plowed into a car stopped on a crossing this week was traveling just below the speed limit and no problem was found with the signals or traffic barriers at the site of the deadly crash, a fed…
Washington state teen gets 20 years for murder of WWII veteran
SEATTLE (Reuters) – A Washington state teenager was sentenced to 20 years in prison on Thursday for the murder of an 88-year-old World War Two veteran who was beaten to death during a robbery outside a Spokane fraternal lodge.
New York State, ex-assemblyman settle harassment lawsuit
NEW YORK (Reuters) – New York State has agreed to pay $545,000 to settle lawsuits brought by two women who said their boss, former Assemblyman Vito Lopez, sexually harassed them and that then-Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver created a culture in which s…
Somali man sentenced in U.S. court in Texas for aiding ‘terrorist’ group
AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) – A Somali man was sentenced in 15 years in prison on Thursday for providing material support to al-Shabaab, a U.S.-designated foreign terrorism group, U.S. prosecutors said.
Two dead in shooting at University of South Carolina’s public health school
CHARLESTON, S.C. (Reuters) – Two people died in a shooting at the University of South Carolina’s public health school on Thursday in an apparent murder-suicide, state police said.
Lawyers urge judge to lift grand jury secrecy in New York chokehold case
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Lawyers for civil liberty groups, the news media, public defenders and New York’s elected public advocate urged a judge on Thursday to release the transcripts of secret grand jury proceedings into the killing of an unarmed black ma…
Daughter of Whitney Houston still on life support: family source
(Reuters) – The only child of the late singer Whitney Houston has not been taken off life support or declared brain dead, a family source said on Thursday, five days after Bobbi Kristina Brown was found face down in a bathtub at her Georgia home.
