Long-stalled Seattle tunnel project delayed nine months to 2017
SEATTLE (Reuters) – An expressway tunnel central to Seattle’s $3.1 billion roadway overhaul will not open to traffic until August 2017, extending by some nine months a delay-plagued project to replace a waterfront highway, Washington state officials sa…
U.S. State Department’s Guantanamo envoy resigns
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The State Department envoy responsible for negotiating prisoner transfers from the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, is resigning, officials said on Monday, even as President Barack Obama is promising a stepped-up pus…
Rolling Stone magazine requests audit of discredited gang rape story
(Reuters) – Rolling Stone magazine has asked Columbia University’s journalism school to investigate a discredited article it ran in November alleging gang rape at a campus fraternity, the New York-based school said.
Three men face attempted murder charges in Oregon school shooting
PORTLAND, Ore. (Reuters) – Three men suspected in a gang-related shooting this month outside an Oregon high school for homeless and other vulnerable students are facing attempted murder and other charges, Portland police said on Monday.
Cruelty case against U.S. senator’s son dropped in Arizona dog deaths
PHOENIX (Reuters) – Animal cruelty charges against the son and daughter-in-law of U.S. Senator Jeff Flake and two others will be dismissed after new information came to light about the deaths of 21 dogs at a suburban Phoenix kennel in June, prosecutors…
U.S. West Coast port employers seek mediation in dockworker talks
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Shipping lines and terminal operators at 29 U.S. West Coast ports asked the union representing 20,000 dockworkers on Monday to consent to federal mediation in contract negotiations, saying the parties remained far from a deal af…
U.S. judge denies motion seeking halt to executions in Oklahoma
AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) – A U.S. district judge on Monday denied an injunction seeking to halt executions in Oklahoma filed by attorneys for death row inmates who argued a troubled lethal injection in the state in April exposed deep flaws in the death …
Confusion over start of gay marriages next month in Florida
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (Reuters) – Florida court officials, citing confusion after the U.S. Supreme Court declined to extend a stay on the state’s same-sex marriage ban, agreed on Monday to ask a federal judge to clarify where gay couples may begin to tie t…
U.S. to review move not to charge ex-officer in Milwaukee fatal shooting
MILWAUKEE (Reuters) – The U.S. Department of Justice will investigate the death of a black man who was fatally shot by a white former Milwaukee police officer after local prosecutors refused to charge him, saying he acted in self-defense.
Arizona to change lethal injection drugs after drawn-out execution
PHOENIX (Reuters) – Arizona will no longer use the two-drug lethal injection cocktail it employed to execute a convicted killer in July after the man took almost two hours to die, the state’s prison chief said on Monday.
