Oregon prison inmate second to escape in less than a week
PORTLAND, Oregon (Reuters) – Oregon State Police searched on Monday for a prison inmate who slipped away the night before from the Deer Ridge Correctional Institution, marking the second escape from an Oregon detention center in less than a week, priso…
Maryland latest U.S. state to hike minimum wage to $10.10 per hour
ANNAPOLIS, Maryland (Reuters) – Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley on Monday approved a gradual hike in the state’s minimum wage to $10.10 an hour as fellow Democrats seek to make raising the wage an issue ahead of this year’s midterm congressional elec…
U.S. House panel adds $450 million to FY15 budget for 5 Boeing jets
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. House Armed Services Committee on Monday proposed adding $450 million to the U.S. Navy’s fiscal 2015 budget for five more Boeing Co EA-18G electronic attack planes, well short of the 22 jets on the Navy’s list of “unfund…
Nine hurt as closed steel plant in Baltimore collapses
ANNAPOLIS, Maryland (Reuters) – A five-story mill building undergoing demolition at the former Bethlehem Steel plant near Baltimore collapsed on Monday, injuring nine workers, four critically, police said.
Case of three Ohio captives prompts new laws, strategies for missing people
CLEVELAND (Reuters) – A year after three missing women escaped Cleveland’s so-called House of Horrors, the tale of their long captivity has changed the way experts look for missing persons and inspired legislation aimed at protecting the vulnerable in …
U.S. Army helicopter with four aboard crashes over weekend in New Mexico
AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) – A U.S. Army helicopter with four people aboard crashed over the weekend during a training exercise near Fort Bliss in El Paso, Texas, a military official said on Monday.
Supreme Court declines to hear Nebraska immigration case
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday left intact a Nebraska town’s ordinance that cracks down on illegal immigration, declining to hear an appeal filed by a civil rights group.
U.S. Supreme Court declines new gun regulations challenge
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to weigh in on whether gun owners have a constitutional right to carry handguns outside the home.
Fewer in U.S. lack health insurance, but issues remain: poll
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The percentage of adults in the United States who lack health insurance has fallen to its lowest rate since 2008, down to about 13 percent in April from a peak of 18 percent last year, according to a Gallup poll released on Monda…
Regret, relief draw former inmates to Pennsylvania prison reunion
PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) – William Harrison knows the Eastern State Penitentiary all too well, having spent years locked up in the imposing fortress that today is a popular tourist attraction in Philadelphia.
