New York City subway cars fumigated after bedbug sightings
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Three New York City subway trains had to be fumigated after riders and staff spotted bedbugs in the cars, a transit spokesman said on Wednesday.
Grand jury indicts three New Mexico teens for murdering homeless men
ALBUQUERQUE N.M. (Reuters) – A grand jury has indicted three Albuquerque teens for first degree murder in the beating deaths of two homeless American Indian men, which shocked New Mexico’s biggest city.
District of Columbia legal pot measure heads for November ballot
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – An initiative to legalize marijuana possession in the District of Columbia was cleared on Wednesday for a Nov. 4 vote in the U.S. capital, an election board spokeswoman said.
Kansas Republican senator Roberts fights off Tea Party challenger
KANSAS CITY Mo. (Reuters) – Veteran Republican Senator Pat Roberts fought off a Kansas primary challenge by a Tea Party-backed doctor who had promised a “family feud” with his distant relative President Barack Obama if elected, results on Wednesday sho…
Florida same-sex marriage ban declared unconstitutional in fourth ruling
TAMPA Fla. (Reuters) – A south Florida judge on Tuesday became the fourth in recent weeks to strike down the state’s same-sex marriage ban, in a case involving the estate of a gay man who owned property in Florida.
Missouri killer executed, scrutiny high after Arizona
(Reuters) – Missouri officials executed convicted killer Michael Worthington on Wednesday despite calls for caution after a problematic execution in Arizona last month, when a condemned prisoner took more than an hour to die.
Missouri killer executed after Supreme Court denies stay applications
(Reuters) – Missouri officials executed on Wednesday a man convicted of murder for the rape and strangling of a woman in 1995, in the first lethal injection after a prisoner took more than an hour to die in Arizona last month, a state official said.
Second Ebola patient wheeled into Atlanta hospital for treatment
ATLANTA (Reuters) – An American missionary stricken with Ebola in West Africa wore a protective white suit on Tuesday as she was wheeled on a stretcher into the Atlanta hospital where doctors will try to save her and a fellow aid worker from the deadly…
Deal may be near for Colorado woman accused of aiding Islamist insurgents
DENVER (Reuters) – U.S. prosecutors and lawyers defending a Colorado woman accused of providing material support to Islamist militants fighting the governments of Syria and Iraq may be close to resolving the case, court records show.
Missing Oregon mother found dead near abandoned car
PORTLAND Ore. (Reuters) – A stay-at-home mother of two young children who seemingly vanished from her small Oregon community while running household errands nearly two weeks ago was found dead on Tuesday a short distance from her SUV, authorities said….
