U.S. consumer confidence jumps in July
NEW YORK (Reuters) – U.S. consumer confidence jumped in July to a monthly high not seen since October 2007, according to a private sector report released on Tuesday.
Sex website seizure spurs San Francisco bid to decriminalize prostitution
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – The head of San Francisco’s Erotic Service Providers Union has been a sex worker for 24 years — and “I hope to be doing it for another 24,” says Maxine Doogan.
Judge gives go-ahead for $2 billion sale of NBA’s Clippers
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – The estranged wife of Los Angeles Clippers co-owner Donald Sterling can proceed with the record $2 billion sale of the NBA team despite her husband’s objections, a judge ruled on Monday, in a likely coda to a case of lingering r…
Rare tornado slams Boston area, knocks out power
BOSTON (Reuters) – Officials and residents in the Boston-area city of Revere were picking up the pieces early on Tuesday after it was raked by a rare tornado that knocked out power and damaged homes and buildings.
Doctor held for pointing rifle toward women at Phoenix airport -police
PHOENIX (Reuters) – An Arizona doctor was arrested on suspicion of pointing a rifle toward a woman and her 17-year-old daughter inside a busy Phoenix airport terminal, police said on Monday.
Toy drone disrupts aircraft fighting California wildfire
(Reuters) – A private drone trying to film a wildfire that has charred nearly six square miles in Northern California briefly disrupted firefighting efforts, although workers had gained the upper hand against the blaze, officials said on Monday.
Police arrest four in beating death of China grad student near USC
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Four people, two of them juveniles, have been arrested in the robbery and beating death last week of a Chinese graduate student near his off-campus apartment, Los Angeles Police officials said on Monday.
Police search for Oregon mom who vanished while running errands
NEWBERG Ore. (Reuters) – Police in Oregon were searching on Monday for a stay-at-home mother of two young children who seemingly vanished from her small community while running household errands last week, as her family said they feared the worst.
San Diego council approves minimum wage hike to $11.50 an hour by 2017
SAN DIEGO (Reuters) – The San Diego City Council gave formal approval on Monday to an ordinance that would incrementally raise the minimum wage in California’s second-largest city to $11.50 an hour by January 2017, mostly for workers in the restaurant …
Round-up of wild horses gets under way in Utah
SALT LAKE CITY (Reuters) – Federal land managers began rounding up wild horses on public land in central Utah on Monday as part of efforts to cut herd numbers and placate ranchers who say the animals destroy range land vital for cattle grazing.
