Reforms bring ‘Fair Food’ label to Florida-grown tomatoes
TAMPA Fla. (Reuters) – A new “Fair Food” label to help shoppers identify tomatoes grown under ethical working conditions is expected to debut as soon as this weekend at Whole Foods Market, a result of efforts to ensure Florida farmworkers’ rights to wa…
Pennsylvania man convicted of murder, state seeks death penalty
STROUDSBURG Pa. (Reuters) – A jury on Friday convicted a Pennsylvania man of first-degree murder in the dismemberment of a woman whose body parts were found stuffed in garbage bags strewn along two highways, and prosecutors said they will seek the deat…
‘Don’t think, just play’: MIT engineers football success
(Reuters) – The Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s reputation of academic superiority is well chronicled. But the private research university is now excelling in a sector of society once deemed unthinkable for a bastion of brainpower: football.
Portland prosecutors drop pot cases after Oregon legalization vote
PORTLAND Ore. (Reuters) – Oregon’s biggest county will no longer prosecute most marijuana cases after state voters voted this month to legalize the drug even as other prosecutors across the state take a more cautious approach, authorities said on Frida…
Lawmaker wants NASCAR’s Busch suspended over abuse allegations
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A California lawmaker on Friday called for NASCAR to suspend driver Kurt Busch from the season’s final race over “horrifying” domestic abuse allegations made by his former girlfriend.
Man found engulfed in flames outside Arizona fast-food restaurant
PHOENIX (Reuters) – A man was in critical condition in an Arizona hospital on Friday with burns to about 90 percent of his body after being found engulfed in flames outside a Phoenix fast-food restaurant, authorities said.
Pentagon says billions needed for neglected U.S. nuclear force
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Billions of dollars are needed in the next five years to ensure the security and effectiveness of the ageing U.S. nuclear deterrent, the Pentagon said on Friday, after reviews found evidence of neglect during years of conventiona…
Strippers win $10.9 million judgment for unpaid wages from New York club
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Exotic dancers at a midtown Manhattan strip club were awarded nearly $10.9 million by a U.S. judge who found they were employees unfairly classified by the club as independent contractors.
Awaiting Ferguson grand jury, activists drill protest tactics
ST. LOUIS (Reuters) – In a former union hall in downtown St. Louis, about 100 activists formed a rough circle and, at the instruction of organizer Michael McPhearson, crossed the room wading through a crowd of people going the opposite way.
Parents of Sandy Hook massacre victims say they get scant help from state
NEWTOWN Connecticut (Reuters) – Parents of two children killed in the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre in Connecticut said on Friday that state officials had failed to provide them adequate mental health care in the wake of one of America’s w…
