Five family members killed driving from Texas to Disney World
DALLAS (Reuters) – Five members of a Texas family on their way to a vacation in Disney World were killed in a single-car crash when their vehicle driven by their teenage son overturned on a highway in Louisiana, police said on Thursday.
New Jersey loses jobs in October as it prepares for bond sale
(Reuters) – New Jersey’s economy showed more cracks on Thursday as the U.S. state with the second-lowest credit rating in the country reported 4,500 jobs lost in October and an upward tick in its unemployment rate.
Arizona is first U.S. state to sue GM over delayed recalls
(Reuters) – In the first lawsuit brought by a state against General Motors Co over recalls relating to a defective ignition switch, Arizona has accused the company of putting the public at risk by concealing safety issues and delaying the recalls.
Teamsters pull ballot petition for FedEx Freight Virginia facility
CHICAGO (Reuters) – The Teamsters union on Thursday withdrew a petition asking for a secret ballot election for drivers at a Richmond, Virginia, facility of FedEx Corp’s trucking unit.
Feds investigating drones spotted flying near JFK runways
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Three commercial pilots reported seeing drones, some flying as high as 3,000 feet, near their landing approaches at New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport and federal authorities on Thursday were investigating.
Two California children die in fire as mother at hospital with labor pains
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Two children died and their father was badly burned on Thursday in a fire that tore through their Southern California duplex after their pregnant mother went to a hospital with labor pains, a fire official said.
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.
