House Republicans seek CDC documents on anthrax scare
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Congressional Republicans asked the Obama administration on Wednesday to provide documents related to last month’s anthrax scare at a U.S. lab facility, where more than 80 people were initially feared to be exposed to the deadly …
Washington state approves first producer of pot edibles
SEATTLE (Reuters) – A Seattle-based company that makes marijuana-infused drinks and candies has become the first business in Washington approved to make edible pot products for the state’s newly opened stores, officials said Wednesday.
Texas robbery suspect sets himself on fire, then is shot by police
AUSTIN Texas (Reuters) – Police in a Dallas suburb shot a suspected burglar after he poured a flammable material on his clothing and set himself on fire on Wednesday outside a chicken wing restaurant, a city official said.
Exclusive: U.S. grills suspects in new strategy to build bank laundering cases
ST. LOUIS (Reuters) – U.S. prosecutors are using a new tactic to crack down on banks that fail to fight money laundering: systematically asking suspects in a wide range of criminal cases to help them follow the money back to their bankers.
Florida cat owners call 911 after Russian blue ‘freaked out’
ORLANDO Florida (Reuters) – Kush the cat was quarantined in central Florida after her owner called 911 over the weekend for help, saying the ferocious feline had her trapped in her home.
Police shoot knife-wielding woman dead outside Idaho hospital
SALMON Idaho (Reuters) – Police shot and killed a woman brandishing a knife outside a regional medical center in northern Idaho that had been locked down amid reports of a weapons threat, authorities said Wednesday.
Utah to appeal gay marriage ruling to U.S. Supreme Court
SALT LAKE CITY (Reuters) – Utah’s attorney general will appeal directly to the U.S. Supreme Court over last month’s ruling by a federal appeals court that backed gay marriage in the conservative, heavily Mormon state, his office said on Wednesday.
New York man gets 17 years in beating death of nursing home roommate
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A former New York nursing home resident who pleaded guilty to clubbing to death his 71-year-old roommate has been sentenced to 17 years in prison, prosecutors said on Wednesday.
Prostitute gave client heroin overdose: California police
(Reuters) – Police in California have arrested a woman they described as a high-priced prostitute who is suspected of murdering a man by injecting him with a fatal dose of heroin on board his yacht in a Santa Cruz harbor, authorities said.
Congress seen unlikely to block threatened New York transit strike
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Congress will likely not intervene to prevent a threatened strike this month that would shut down the Long Island Rail Road, the country’s largest commuter rail system, a U.S. representative from New York said on Wednesday.
