Probe into deadly Washington subway smoke may take a year: NTSB
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The investigation into smoke in a Washington subway tunnel that killed a woman and sent 84 people to hospitals could take six to 12 months, a spokesman for the National Transportation Safety Board said on Tuesday.
Texas plant where workers died had been cited for infractions: newspaper
HOUSTON (Reuters) – A DuPont and Co pesticide plant where four people died in a gas leak in November had been cited for emissions violations by a state agency on several occasions before the accident, the Houston Chronicle reported on Tuesday.
U.S. appeals court hears case on NYC police surveillance of Muslims
PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) – Civil rights groups asked a panel of federal judges on Tuesday to overturn a lower court’s ruling that there was nothing harmful in New York City police conducting surveillance on Muslims in neighboring New Jersey without suspi…
Facebook to issue missing children alerts in U.S.
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Social networking website Facebook plans to use its estimated 140 million daily U.S. users to help track missing children through emergency alerts, the company said on Tuesday.
Short courses offer hope to U.S. education companies
(Reuters) – Short-term courses could well be the way forward for traditional for-profit education providers in the United States as they struggle to arrest the slide in enrollments.
U.S. man, 19, pleads not guilty to trying to join Islamic State
CHICAGO (Reuters) – A 19-year-old man from suburban Chicago pleaded not guilty on Tuesday to federal charges of trying to provide material support to Islamic State militants after he tried to travel with his two younger siblings to the Middle East to j…
Case of South Carolina police chief accused of murder ends in mistrial
CHARLESTON, S.C. (Reuters) – A South Carolina judge declared a mistrial early on Tuesday after a jury said it was deadlocked in the case against a white former police chief accused in the 2011 shooting death of an unarmed black man.
Worker dies after fall at Citgo Corpus Christi refinery: sources
HOUSTON (Reuters) – A worker has died from injuries sustained in a fall on Monday night at Citgo Petroleum Corp’s [PDVSAC.UL] Corpus Christi, Texas, refinery, said sources familiar with the plant’s operations.
Supreme Court upholds man’s conviction over elderly woman’s death
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld the conviction of a North Carolina man for causing the death of a 79-year-old woman who died of a heart attack after he entered her home while fleeing police following a botched bank robbe…
Coming soon to a workplace near you: ‘wellness or else’
NEW YORK (Reuters) – U.S. companies are increasingly penalizing workers who decline to join “wellness” programs, embracing an element of President Barack Obama’s healthcare law that has raised questions about fairness in the workplace.
