Three women avoid prison in NYC payroll fraud case
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Three women avoided prison on Tuesday for crimes stemming from a massive fraud and kickback scheme involving a New York City payroll project that prosecutors say pushed its costs to $700 million.
Yellen defends loose Fed policy, says job market still too weak
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen said U.S. labor markets are far from healthy and signaled the Fed will keep monetary policy loose until hiring and wage data show the effects of the financial crisis are “completely gone.”
Old-style U.S. public pensions weather cost-cutting storm
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Retirement payouts for 19.3 million U.S. state and local government workers in coming years are not likely to look much different from the iron-clad pensions that former teachers and police now get.
Female firefighter is first to muscle into FDNY beefcake calendar
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The Fire Department of New York’s annual celebration of beefcake just added a slice of cheesecake.
Two people killed in Pennsylvania house explosion
(Reuters) – Two people died in an early morning house explosion on Tuesday in a rural area of western Pennsylvania, local emergency officials said.
San Diego City Council votes to raise minimum wage to $11.50 by 2017
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – The San Diego City Council has given tentative approval to an ordinance raising the minimum wage in California’s second-largest city to $11.50 by 2017, and giving workers a chance to earn a paid sick leave benefit.
Long Island rail strike may cost economy $50 million/day: N.Y. comptroller
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A strike by workers at New York’s Long Island Rail Road could cost $50 million a day in lost economic activity, a blow for a region still overcoming the effects of the recession and Superstorm Sandy, the state’s top financial watch…
Washington state bridge collapse result of failed safety measures: NTSB
SEATTLE (Reuters) – A Washington state bridge collapse that sent two cars tumbling into a frigid river below after a commercial truck accidentally struck an overhead truss was the result of failed safety precautions and inadequate permitting for oversi…
U.S. court sides with Chinese firm in dispute with Obama
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A federal appeals court on Tuesday issued a surprising rebuke to U.S. President Barack Obama and said he deprived a small Chinese-owned firm of its right to due process when he squashed its bid to build wind farms close to a U.S….
Judge finds accused Boston bomber friend’s words to FBI voluntary
BOSTON (Reuters) – A friend of the accused Boston Marathon bombing suspect did not speak involuntarily when telling FBI agents about the removal of a laptop and backpack from the suspect’s room and his statements are admissible as evidence, a U.S. judg…
