Beloved New York bar wins reprieve from wrecking ball
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Owners of the 77-year-old Subway Inn, a New York bar where celebrities like Marilyn Monroe and Joe DiMaggio once mingled, won a court order on Tuesday temporarily blocking their imminent eviction from the site, the business said.
Calpers set to allow 100 extra pay types count toward pensions
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – The California Public Employees’ Retirement System (Calpers), America’s largest public pension fund, is expected to approve nearly 100 types of extra pay on Wednesday that will count toward how pensions are calculated for newly …
Funeral planned for Missouri teen shot by police as clashes persist
FERGUSON Mo. (Reuters) – Funeral services are planned on Monday for an unarmed black teenager whose fatal shooting by a white policeman in Missouri has ignited more than a week of racially charged clashes in the St. Louis suburb of Ferguson.
U.S. government’s nuclear watchdog victim of cyber attacks: report
BOSTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission was “successfully hacked” three times in recent years in attacks involving tainted emails, according to an internal investigation on cyber attacks at the agency, Nextgov.com reported on Tuesday….
Islamic State says beheads U.S. journalist
BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Islamic State insurgents who control territory in Iraq and Syria released a video on Tuesday purportedly showing the beheading of U.S. journalist James Foley, who had gone missing in Syria nearly two years ago.
Virginia woman pleads guilty of trying to cut off children’s tattoos
(Reuters) – A Virginia woman who tried to remove tattoos on her two young daughters with a heated razor blade has pleaded guilty to felony child abuse, according to court records.
Man pleads guilty over ‘Hot Lips’ account used to evade U.S. taxes
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A Florida man on Tuesday pleaded guilty in New York to criminal charges for concealing as much $1.1 million in offshore accounts, even after learning that U.S. authorities were cracking down on wealthy Americans evading taxes.
California students who plotted school attack could have obtained gun: police
SOUTH PASADENA Calif. (Reuters) – Two teenagers who conspired to kill three staffers and many students at a high school in a Los Angeles suburb might have been able to use a gun belonging to one boy’s relatives, and they planned a gunfight with officer…
Texas animal centers ’empty shelters’ with massive pet adoption
DALLAS (Reuters) – More than 2,200 dogs and cats found new homes after animal shelters in north Texas joined forces, waived fees and launched a grand campaign to clear space in crowded cages.
Former Obama campaign manager to run Uber’s political strategy
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Uber has enlisted David Plouffe, President Barack Obama’s 2008 campaign manager, to devise and run its global political and branding strategy, as the fast-expanding car rides-on-demand startup runs into stiff resistance in som…
