Ahold settles U.S. Foods customer lawsuit for $297 million
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The Dutch retailer Ahold on Wednesday agreed to pay $297 million to settle U.S. class-action litigation accusing its former U.S. Foodservice distribution unit of defrauding thousands of hospitals and restaurants through overcharges…
Dozens arrested in New York child pornography bust: U.S. official
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A Boy Scout leader, a Little League coach, a rabbi and a police officer were among some 60 people arrested in the New York City-area, in one of the largest roundups of those who share child pornography online, a federal official sa…
Passenger bus flips in California, killing four
(Reuters) – A bus veered off a Southern California highway and flipped over early Wednesday morning, killing four people and injuring several others, according to the California Highway Patrol.
McConnell coasts to Kentucky win, Tea Party falls in key primaries
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Republican Senate leader Mitch McConnell easily beat a Tea Party primary challenger in Kentucky on Tuesday, setting up one of November’s most expensive and hard-fought Senate races against Democrat Alison Lundergan Grimes.
Rural Oregon voters back ban on GMO crops amid U.S. labeling uproar
PORTLAND, Oregon (Reuters) – Voters in two small Oregon counties on Tuesday approved controversial ballot measures to ban cultivation of genetically engineered crops within their boundaries, though one measure is vulnerable to legal challenge under a n…
Nevada to move online healthcare enrollment to federal site
(Reuters) – Nevada’s health insurance exchange board on Tuesday voted to transfer control over its online program from its vendor, Xerox, to the federal government’s enrollment system.
U.S. high court halts execution of inmate claiming rare health defect
KANSAS CITY, Missouri (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday granted an 11th-hour reprieve to a Missouri death row inmate said by his lawyers to have a rare health condition that could lead to undue suffering from a lethal injection.
U.S. judge strikes down Pennsylvania law barring gay marriage
HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania (Reuters) – A federal judge struck down Pennsylvania’s ban on same-sex marriage on Tuesday in the latest court decision extending the rights of matrimony to gay and lesbian couples in the United States.
Probe of U.S. Veterans Affairs facilities expands: report
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The number of U.S. Veterans Affairs facilities being investigated for problems involving delays in treating patients has more than doubled to 26, CNN reported on Tuesday.
Former California fire chief charged with stabbing girlfriend to death
SACRAMENTO, California (Reuters) – A former California fire chief, who evaded capture for two weeks after his live-in girlfriend was found stabbed to death in the home they shared, was charged with murder on Tuesday.
