Boston Marathon bomber suspect to appear in court this week
BOSTON (Reuters) – Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is due to appear in court in Boston this week for the first time in more than a year, at a final hearing before his trial begins next month, one of his attorneys said on Monday.
UAW chief backs labor board decisions on email, organizing votes
DETROIT (Reuters) – The president of the United Auto Workers union on Monday called the National Labor Relations Board’s recent decisions to allow employees to use company email to organize and unions to hold faster elections to represent workers “the …
Police capture last of three Alabama jail escapees
(Reuters) – The final of three inmates who broke out of an Alabama county jail after overpowering a guard in a weekend escape has been captured, authorities said on Monday.
U.S. asks Vatican for help with Guantanamo inmates
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – The United States, which is seeking ways to close Guantanamo Bay prison camp and to transfer inmates to third countries, asked the Vatican on Monday for help finding “humanitarian solutions” for inmates, Vatican spokesman Fathe…
Puerto Rico to present power-authority overhaul ideas to creditors
NEW YORK/SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (Reuters) – Restructuring experts will present different scenarios to overhaul Puerto Rico’s troubled electric power authority (PREPA) to creditors on Monday, but will stop short of recommending job cuts, the president of…
U.S. top court backs police in car brake-light confusion case
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday ruled that a police officer in North Carolina lawfully stopped a car with a faulty brake light – and then found a stash of cocaine in the vehicle – even though driving with one working light is no…
Wisconsin ice rink closed after gas leak sickens more than 80 people
MILWAUKEE (Reuters) – An ice rink in a central Wisconsin town was closed on Monday after at least 81 people at a weekend minor league hockey game were sickened by a gas leak thought to have been caused by faulty ice resurfacing machines, authorities sa…
The greenest goodbye: Seattle group wants to compost the dead
SEATTLE (Reuters) – Ashes to ashes, dust to dust – and corpses to crops?
Construction work cuts power to State Department: utility
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Nearby construction work cut power to the U.S. State Department on Monday, disrupting Internet and telephone services.
Guantanamo 9/11 hearing canceled, Army spokesman says
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Court officials canceled a two-day pretrial hearing for suspects in the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on Monday at the U.S. prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, a U.S. Army spokesman said.
