Planned Hollywood high-rise would sit atop earthquake fault, state says
SACRAMENTO Calif. (Reuters) – A potentially violent earthquake fault system runs beneath the planned site of a massive high-rise development project in Hollywood and along the edge of a new apartment building, California’s top geologist said Thursday.
Former Mississippi prisons chief pleads not guilty to bribery
JACKSON Miss. (Reuters) – Mississippi’s former prisons chief pleaded not guilty on Thursday to federal charges that he accepted cash and mortgage payments in exchange for awarding prison contracts to companies tied to a local businessman.
Appeals court upholds gay marriage bans, reversing trend
(Reuters) – A federal appeals court on Thursday bucked a recent trend of pro-gay marriage decisions by upholding state bans or restrictions in Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio and Tennessee, pressuring the Supreme Court to take up the issue.
In defeat for unions, Indiana’s top court upholds right-to-work law
(Reuters) – The Indiana Supreme Court has unanimously upheld the state’s right-to-work law, which bars employers from requiring workers to join unions or pay union dues as a condition of employment, in a victory for business groups.
Former baseball pitcher Halsey’s fatal fall apparently an accident
AUSTIN Texas (Reuters) – The death of former Major League Baseball pitcher Brad Halsey, who fell off a cliff near his central Texas home last week, appears to have been an accident, police said on Thursday.
Who shot bin Laden? Former U.S. Navy SEALS make rival claims
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Members of the U.S. Navy Seal commando team that killed Osama bin Laden at his Pakistan hideout in May, 2011 are making conflicting claims as to who actually shot the al Qaeda leader.
Bankrupt San Bernardino, Calif., warns it may contract out services, raise debt
RIVERSIDE Calif. (Reuters) – Bankrupt San Bernadino, California, might have to contract out essential services and place a revenue bond on the ballot in 2015 elections after a measure failed this week that would have lowered base pay for police and fir…
Texas nurse, now free of Ebola, defends her work and travels
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – One of the Texas nurses who helped treat a Liberian man with Ebola last month defended her decision to fly after that, saying she had not been barred from traveling and felt normal during her trip.
Georgia city settles lawsuit over stun-gun death
ATLANTA (Reuters) – A Georgia city has settled a wrongful death suit filed by the family of a man who died in April after two police officers used Tasers on him more than a dozen times, their attorney said on Thursday.
New Orleans political consultant victim of possible fire bombing
NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) – A fire that badly damaged the home of a New Orleans political consultant on Thursday appears to have been set deliberately, authorities said, raising concerns it may have been a politically motivated attack.
