U.S. teenagers smoke less, but texting while driving a concern: CDC
ATLANTA (Reuters) – Fewer U.S. teenagers are smoking cigarettes, fighting or having sex, but texting while driving is prevalent among high school students, according to a survey released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Thursday.
Size of income tax drop surprises U.S. states: study
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Most U.S. states were surprised by the size of the drop in their personal income tax collections this April, even though they had expected a decline, according to a report released by the Rockefeller Institute of Government on Th…
Broad support in NYC for higher minimum wage, poll shows
NEW YORK (Reuters) – New Yorkers strongly back hiking the minimum wage, a poll showed on Thursday, while their support for the police department hit new lows under a mayor seeking to improve community relations.
Texas Governor Perry compares homosexuality to alcoholism
(Reuters) – Texas Governor Rick Perry, a Republican presidential aspirant whose 2012 campaign was sunk partly because of verbal slips, has compared homosexuality to alcoholism, coming under fire again for an argument he has made previously.
Climber rescued after 1,500-feet fall on Colorado’s El Diente
DENVER (Reuters) – A climber who broke his leg after falling more than 1,500 feet on one of Colorado’s steepest peaks was safe after what local authorities said was their first helicopter rescue using night-vision equipment.
New Jersey man arrested in attack on fellow nursing home resident
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A 73-year-old resident of a suburban New Jersey nursing home was arrested on Thursday for an alleged assault on a fellow resident nearly 20 years older, police said.
Judge stays execution in Missouri pending meddling probe
KANSAS CITY Mo. (Reuters) – A federal judge on Thursday ordered a stay of execution for a Missouri double murderer next week because of allegations that prison staff may have interfered with an employee who wanted to help get clemency for the death row…
Detroit man held in woman’s killing, search goes on for children
(Reuters) – A Detroit man is in custody in Georgia on suspicion that he killed the mother of his child and investigators are questioning him in the hope that he can help them find her two missing children, Detroit police said on Thursday.
Bachelor party finds rare mastodon fossil in New Mexico
ALBUQUERQUE (Reuters) – A group of men attending a bachelor party stumbled across a rare fossil of a mastodon skull, complete with its tusks, in sand at a lakeshore in a New Mexico state park, a museum spokesman said on Thursday.
Maine man, 77, pleads insanity in 2012 double murder over snow shoveling
PORTLAND Maine (Reuters) – (This June 11 story was corrected in 11th paragraph to say it was a woman, not a man, who starved a 5-year-old in 1995 case)
