New Jersey pension system funding plummets under new rule
(Reuters) – New Jersey’s retirement system for public employees is in worse shape than previously reported, thanks to recent accounting changes that are starting to be rolled out across the country.
More troops deployed in Ferguson to guard against fresh riots
FERGUSON, Mo. (Reuters) – Missouri’s governor ordered hundreds more National Guard troops on Tuesday to the St. Louis suburb rocked by rioting after a white policeman was cleared in the fatal shooting of an unarmed black teenager, while the local mayor…
Florida police arrest students in alleged prostitution ring
ORLANDO, Fla. (Reuters) – A Florida prostitution ring allegedly run by high school students who tried to recruit classmates with the promise of $40 and liquor was broken up after a second teenager was arrested in the underage sex scheme, police said on…
Honeymoon interrupted as disorderly Brit hauled off plane in Bermuda
HAMILTON, Bermuda (Reuters) – A British man headed to his honeymoon on a Cuba-bound flight instead found himself grounded in Bermuda after drunkenly threatening the flight crew, with his wife continuing on to Cuba without him, authorities in Bermuda sa…
U.S. judge rules Arkansas ban on same-sex marriage is unconstitutional
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (Reuters) – A U.S. district judge ruled on Tuesday that an Arkansas constitutional amendment that defines legal marriage as being only the union of one man and one woman was unconstitutional.
Judge denies Boston bomb suspect request for triple murder evidence
BOSTON (Reuters) – A federal judge on Tuesday denied a request by lawyers for accused Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev for evidence in the ongoing investigation of a 2011 Massachusetts triple murder, saying the information wouldn’t help their c…
Oklahoma woman shot and killed by three-year-old son: police
OKLAHOMA CITY (Reuters) – An Oklahoma woman was fatally shot in the head by her 3-year-old son who came across a handgun in their Tulsa home, police said on Tuesday.
Explosion injures five Memphis utility workers, three critically
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (Reuters) – An explosion injured five Memphis utility workers, three of them critically, on Tuesday while they were working on an underground gas line, fire officials said.
Vote tally too close, recount ordered on Oregon GMO labeling
(Reuters) – The final vote tally on an Oregon ballot measure that would require labeling of foods made with genetically modified ingredients was so close that state officials are doing a recount, a spokesman for the state said on Tuesday.
FBI raids Puerto Rico sewer authority PRASA
NEW YORK/SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (Reuters) – The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation launched a surprise raid at Puerto Rico’s Aqueduct and Sewer Authority (PRASA) on Tuesday in a probe the head of the commonwealth agency said was focused on a single ca…
