New York teachers get retroactive pay deal with city: report
NEW YORK (Reuters) – New York Mayor Bill de Blasio could announce a deal as early as Thursday to settle a years-old labor dispute with city teachers who have been seeking retroactive pay worth up to $3.5 billion, according to a report in the New York T…
GM recalls 2013 Cadillac SRX on lagging acceleration issue
DETROIT (Reuters) – General Motors Co is recalling about 56,400 model year 2013 Cadillac SRX crossover vehicles because of possible delays in acceleration linked to a computer program that controls the transmission, U.S. regulators said on Thursday.
Takeoffs resume at Southern California airports after glitch halts flights
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Takeoffs at several southern California airports, including Los Angeles International Airport, were halted for up to two hours on Wednesday after computer problems led a federal air traffic control facility to issue a “ground st…
KKK neighborhood watch proposal makes Pennsylvania townsfolk uneasy
GETTYSBURG, Pennsylvania (Reuters) – When a Missouri-based Ku Klux Klan affiliate dropped leaflets on residents’ lawns in a southern Pennsylvania township to announce the start of a neighborhood watch, the idea of a hate group patrolling their neighbor…
Magma rising in Washington state’s Mount St. Helens volcano: USGS
SEATTLE (Reuters) – Magma levels are slowly rebuilding inside Mount St. Helens, a volcano in Washington state that erupted in 1980 and killed 57 people, although there was no sign of an impending eruption, U.S. scientists said.
Republicans to push anti-Obamacare message in Senate hearings
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Republicans are relishing the chance to use confirmation hearings for Sylvia Mathews Burwell, President Barack Obama’s nominee as U.S. health secretary, to re-energize their election-year attacks on his signature healthcare initi…
Idaho veteran denied burial site for lesbian spouse offered plot by fellow vet
SALMON, Idaho (Reuters) – A retired U.S. Army colonel on Wednesday offered up his burial plot in the Idaho State Veterans Cemetery to a veteran barred by state marriage laws and military rules from interring her ashes and those of her dead lesbian spou…
Wildfire threatens homes in drought-parched Southern California
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – A wind-driven brush fire burning out of control in a drought-parched Southern California wildland on Wednesday threatened a wealthy community in the foothills of the San Bernardino Mountains and forced the evacuation of hundreds…
Denver sheriff halts federal immigration holds
DENVER (Reuters) – Denver will no longer hold people in its jail at the request of federal immigration officials once they are eligible for release on the charges they were arrested for, the county’s sheriff said on Wednesday.
Texas wellhead blast kills two workers, injures nine others
AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) – A wellhead exploded in a hail of shrapnel at a west Texas oil field near the New Mexico border on Wednesday, killing two workers and injuring nine others, a spokesman for the Loving County Sheriff’s Office said.
