Death toll in Washington state mudslide rises to 30
DARRINGTON, Washington (Reuters) – The death toll in a Washington state mudslide that wiped out a rural community last month rose to 30 on Thursday as one more body was extricated from a pile of muck and debris, the Snohomish County medical examiner’s …
Obama’s NSA overhaul may require phone carriers to store more data
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama’s plan for overhauling the National Security Agency’s phone surveillance program could force carriers to collect and store customer data that they are not now legally obliged to keep, according to U.S. offi…
New Jersey man guilty of murder in daughter’s car-seat drowning death
(Reuters) – A New Jersey man was found guilty of first-degree murder on Thursday for tossing his toddler daughter, strapped in her car seat weighted down by a tire jack, into a frigid creek, prosecutors said.
U.N. panel to weigh dangers of oil-by-rail cargo
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – International rules for handling the kind of petroleum shipments involved in several recent fiery derailments may need to be revised, the United Nations said, in a move that could rattle the fast-growing oil-by-rail sector.
Appeals court upholds NYC ban on worship services in schools
NEW YORK (Reuters) – New York City’s ban on religious worship services inside school buildings after hours was ruled constitutional on Thursday by a federal appeals court.
Appeals court allows Texas execution to proceed
(Corrects April 2 story to make clear stay for second inmate active; paragraphs 1, 3 and 8.)
Florida governor’s voter purge effort hits stumbling blocks
TALLAHASSEE, Florida (Reuters) – Florida Governor Rick Scott’s efforts to purge non-U.S. citizens from the state’s voter rolls, a move that has triggered legal challenges from voting rights groups, have been dealt the second significant setback in a we…
Texas tycoons hid $550 million in profits offshore, U.S. tells jury
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Texas tycoons Sam and Charles Wyly employed a labyrinthine system of offshore trusts to conceal stock trades in four companies on whose boards they sat, netting themselves more than $550 million in undisclosed profits, a U.S. gover…
Skydiver dies during record group-jump try in Arizona
PHOENIX (Reuters) – An experienced skydiver was killed while taking part in a 222-person group-formation jump trying to set a world record on Thursday when the victim’s main parachute malfunctioned, a spokeswoman for the Arizona skydiving facility said…
Detroit manager seeks city’s bankruptcy exit by October 15
DETROIT (Reuters) – Detroit’s emergency manager, Kevin Orr, on Thursday said in testimony before a U.S. bankruptcy court that he wants the city to exit bankruptcy by October 15, just weeks after his 18-month term as state-appointed emergency manager is…
