Miami commissioners approve billion-dollar downtown complex
MIAMI (Reuters) – The city of Miami has given the nod to a $1.5 billion mixed-use project boosters said will transform downtown Miami, adding retail and public spaces to a destitute neighborhood squeezed between condominium towers and the home of the M…
Human remains found at trash collection site near Los Angeles
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – A worker at a waste collection site near Los Angeles found human remains on a conveyor belt at the facility, marking what local media called the fourth such grisly find in two years, police said on Tuesday.
Sister of accused Boston Marathon bombers pleads not guilty to bomb threat
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The sister of the accused Boston Marathon bombers pleaded not guilty on Tuesday to charges she made a threatening phone call to a woman, telling her she could “put a bomb where you live.”
Maine police searching for fake cops after marijuana robbery
AUGUSTA Maine (Reuters) – Police are searching for three armed men who dressed as law enforcement officers to steal medical marijuana plants from a licensed grower in the small central Maine town of Winterport.
AEG asks for more time to lure pro football team back to Los Angeles
(Reuters) – Developer Anschutz Entertainment Group (AEG) asked Los Angeles on Monday to give it more time to lure a pro football team back to the city and start building a $1.2 billion stadium downtown.
U.S. courts deny trafficking victims lost wages: study
WASHINGTON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Most victims of sex and labor trafficking in the United States fail to get any back pay, despite a U.S. law requiring courts to order convicted traffickers to pay their lost wages, a new study has found.
New York mayor de Blasio plans expansion of living wage: NYT
(Reuters) – New York Mayor Bill de Blasio plans to expand the city’s living wage measure to include thousands of additional workers, as well as increase the amount workers are paid under the law, the New York Times reported on Monday.
Texas hospital puts possible Ebola patient in isolation
(Reuters) – A Texas hospital said on Monday it has admitted a patient into “strict isolation” to be evaluated for possible infection with the Ebola virus, as health officials battle an epidemic in West Africa that has already killed thousands of people…
Fence-jumper ran through much of main floor of White House
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The man who breached security at the White House this month raced through several rooms on the main floor, penetrating farther into the building than previously disclosed, a Republican congressman said on Monday.
White substance in envelope at Reagan Library causes security scare
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – A white substance from an envelope opened by a staff member at the Ronald Reagan Library in Simi Valley, California, caused a security scare on Monday, but the substance was later found to be non-toxic, a spokeswoman for the ins…
