Three charged with suspected $1.5 million oil theft from Texas fields
AUSTIN Texas (Reuters) – Three people have been indicted for stealing shale oil over three years worth an estimated $1.5 million by driving it off in trucks that were supposed to be disposing waste water, according to court documents obtained on Thursd…
Two children shot dead in New Jersey home, two family members hurt
TABERNACLE N.J. (Reuters) – Two children were shot dead and two of their family members were critically wounded by gunfire at a home in a rural New Jersey town near Philadelphia, state police said on Thursday.
Snow to keep falling in paralyzed western New York another day
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Snowbound residents of western New York awoke to as much as another foot of accumulation on Thursday with possibly another 30 inches (76 cm) expected, meteorologists said.
Police arrest protesters as St. Louis awaits grand jury decision
FERGUSON Mo. (Reuters) – Police arrested five people overnight after they tried to block a street in a protest calling for a grand jury to charge a white police officer in the fatal shooting of an unarmed black teen in August.
Supreme Court allows gay marriage to proceed in South Carolina
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday denied a request to block gay marriage from proceeding in South Carolina, clearing the way for it to become the 35th U.S. state where same-sex marriage is legal.
NSA chief warns Chinese cyber attacks could shut U.S. infrastructure
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – China and “probably one or two” other countries have the ability to invade and possibly shut down computer systems of U.S. power utilities, aviation networks and financial companies, Admiral Mike Rogers, the director of the U.S. …
Exclusive: U.S. to allow people from nations hit by Ebola to stay temporarily
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Department of Homeland Security will grant temporary protected status to people from the three West African countries most affected by Ebola who are currently residing in the United States, department officials said on Thursd…
Colorado man accused of wife’s murder marked spot with X on map
DENVER (Reuters) – A Colorado man accused of killing his wife by pushing her off a cliff had a map with an “X” marking the spot where she fell to her death, unsealed court records show.
Immigrants face major hurdles in signing up to new Obama plan
WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) – President Barack Obama’s televised address to the nation on Thursday may prove the easiest part of his controversial plan to relax U.S. immigration policy. Implementing it will be difficult and many people may never bene…
Obama to act unilaterally on immigration, irking Republicans
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama will outline a plan on Thursday to relax U.S. immigration policy for as many as 5 million people, bypassing Congress and angering Republicans.
