Three killed, several injured in crash outside California church
(Reuters) – Three people were killed and at least nine others injured when a driver ploughed into a group of pedestrians leaving a holiday church service in a southern California city of Redondo Beach on Wednesday night, police said.
FBI, Los Angeles police recover nine stolen paintings worth $10 million
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Federal agents and police in Los Angeles have recovered nine paintings worth millions of dollars that were stolen from the home of an elderly couple six years ago, including works by Marc Chagall and Diego Rivera, and FBI spokes…
Federal judge rebuffs NCAA concussion settlement
(Reuters) – A federal judge on Wednesday rebuffed a $75-million NCAA settlement that aimed to end a massive class-action lawsuit over head injuries suffered by student athletes, court records show.
Executions in United States at 20-year low: report
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Amid growing concerns about how executions are carried out in the United States, the number of prison inmates being put to death fell to a 20-year low in 2014, the Death Penalty Information Center said in a report issued on Thurs…
Lava creeps within mile of Hawaii shopping center
PAHOA, Hawaii (Reuters) – A stream of molten lava from an erupting volcano on Hawaii’s Big Island crept to within a mile of the only grocery store and gas station in the village of Pahoa on Wednesday as it neared a highway link with the rest of the isl…
Sea boundary talks between U.S., Mexico, Cuba to take years: Mexico
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Joint talks among the United States, Cuba and Mexico to fix the maritime boundaries of the three countries in the Gulf of Mexico are likely to be complex and stretch beyond 2018, a senior Mexican official said on Wednesday.
U.S. shippers cite wide gap in labor talks with West Coast dockworkers
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Negotiators for shipping lines and terminal operators at 29 U.S. West Coast ports remain far from a deal with union dockworkers after seven months of contract talks, the companies said on Wednesday, again blaming the union for w…
NY unlikely to face lawsuits over fracking ban, experts say
ALBANY, N.Y. (Reuters) – When Governor Andrew Cuomo announced a ban on fracking in New York on Wednesday, he predicted “a ton of lawsuits” against the state. But that is unlikely as the end of a drilling boom has left the industry in no mood for a figh…
Texas plumber harassed after company truck seen in Syrian war photo
HOUSTON (Reuters) – A Houston-area plumbing company owner has been getting threatening phone calls after one of his former work trucks turned up in a photograph on a Twitter feed that appears to show a militant group fighting in Syria’s civil war.
Experts tell U.S. court that Oklahoma had deeply flawed execution
OKLAHOMA CITY (Reuters) – The Oklahoma inmate put to death in a flawed April execution may have died in agonizing pain due to a troubled lethal injection mix, a medical expert on Wednesday told a U.S. court that is hearing arguments on whether to halt …
