Funding gap threatens retirement for California teachers
SACRAMENTO, California (Reuters) – The pension fund for public school teachers in California faces a long-term shortfall of $74 billion, threatening its ability to pay for the retirement of nearly 1 million teachers and administrators in the nation’s m…
Funding gap threatens retirement for California teachers
SACRAMENTO, California (Reuters) – The pension fund for public school teachers in California faces a long-term shortfall of $74 billion, threatening its ability to pay for the retirement of nearly 1 million teachers and administrators in the nation’s m…
Judge grills Arizona sheriff’s aide in racial profiling case
PHOENIX (Reuters) – A federal judge on Thursday grilled an aide to Arizona sheriff Joe Arpaio for misleading local residents about a ruling that found deputies racially profiled Latino drivers.
Daughter of slain Iraqi-American tells of hearing murder
SAN DIEGO (Reuters) – The daughter of an Iraqi-American man charged with killing his wife in what was first investigated as a hate crime, on Thursday tearfully described hearing her mother’s murder from her upstairs bedroom and finding her dying on the…
Skydiver dies during record group-jump try in Arizona
PHOENIX (Reuters) – A German skydiver who was among 222 people trying to set a world record with a group-formation jump was killed on Thursday in the Arizona desert when her main parachute malfunctioned, police and a spokeswoman for the skydiving facil…
Senate panel votes to declassify report on CIA interrogations
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee voted on Thursday to declassify its long-awaited report on the CIA’s use of brutal interrogation methods that critics say amount to torture.
Texas executes man convicted of killing teenage girl
(Reuters) – Texas on Thursday executed a suspected serial killer convicted of stabbing a teenage girl to death, a day after a federal appeals court rejected his challenge over the drugs to be used in his lethal injection.
U.N. panel to weigh dangers of oil-by-rail cargo
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A U.N. panel will examine the rules for handling the kind of oil-by-rail shipments involved in several recent fiery derailments in a move that could rattle the fast-growing sector.
Addition of Korean name for Sea of Japan becomes law in Virginia
RICHMOND, Virginia (Reuters) – Legislation requiring that the Korean name for the Sea of Japan be included in new school textbooks has become law in the U.S. state of Virginia, a victory for Korean-American campaigners backed by the South Korean govern…
Florida legislature says no dice for casinos this year
TALLAHASSEE (Reuters) – The Florida legislature on Thursday gave up on efforts to open the state to casino gambling, conceding that a deal “is not in the cards.”
