Appeals court upholds ruling voiding Oklahoma gay marriage ban
Oklahoma City (Reuters) – A U.S. appeals court on Friday upheld a lower court decision voiding as unconstitutional Oklahoma’s ban on same-sex marriage, drawing on a similar decision it made for Utah.
Indiana University doctoral student among Malaysia Air dead
(Reuters) – A Dutch doctoral student and former member of the Indiana University rowing team was among the nearly 300 passengers killed when a Malaysian airliner went down in Ukraine, the university said on Friday.
Tour bus crash in upstate New York kills one, injures others
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A commercial tour bus traveling from Canada rolled over on an upstate New York highway on Friday, killing at least one person and injuring several others, police said.
Suspects charged in North Carolina theft of $10,000 dinosaur replica
RALEIGH N.C. (Reuters) – A man and woman caught on video swiping a baby dinosaur replica from a North Carolina museum have turned themselves in, and the roughly foot-long model valued at $10,000 was recovered, state officials said on Friday.
Republican gaining on Democrat in Massachusetts governor’s race: poll
BOSTON (Reuters) – A Republican former hospital executive has pulled into a statistical tie with Massachusetts’ Democratic attorney general in the race to be the state’s next governor, according to a Boston Globe poll released on Friday.
Twelve bodies found in Massachusetts storage unit, prosecutors say
BOSTON (Reuters) – An investigation into a former Massachusetts funeral-home operator has turned grisly, with authorities discovering 12 bodies at a storage unit outside Boston leased by the man, Joseph O’Donnell, authorities said.
Lower Manhattan economy taking off but many new jobs are low wage
New York (Reuters) – Lower Manhattan’s economy is set to take-off. New shopping centers, hotels and food courts are opening in the area that looked more like a war zone after the attacks on September 11, 2001.
U.S. judicial agency to vote on releasing federal prisoners early
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – More than 50,000 drug offenders may be released early from federal prison if a U.S. judiciary agency votes on Friday to change the nation’s sentencing guidelines.
U.S. hearing aid sales gain 6 percent in June, led by veterans: data
COPENHAGEN (Reuters) – The U.S. hearing aid market grew 6 percent year-on-year in June, driven by an increase in sales to Veterans Affairs (VA), a government program for military veterans, data from Bernstein Research showed on Friday.
Colorado issues kidnap alert for woman who claimed dying baby vision
DENVER (Reuters) – Officials in Colorado issued a child-abduction alert late on Thursday for a 5-month-old girl they said was kidnapped in Oklahoma by a woman described as claiming to have had a vision of the infant dying within two days.
