Memorial Day road trippers to hit near 10-year high: AAA
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The number of drivers taking to the road for Memorial Day weekend will hit a 10-year record as travelers gear up for summer after a severe winter, travel group AAA forecast on Friday.
Florida woman seeks self-defense hearing after shooting at husband
JACKSONVILLE, Florida (Reuters) – Attorneys for a north Florida woman facing trial for allegedly firing a gun at her estranged husband went to court on Friday seeking to have charges dropped against her on self-defense grounds.
Missouri inmate wants his execution videotaped
KANSAS CITY, Missouri (Reuters) – A Missouri death row inmate is asking a federal court to allow videotaping his execution, scheduled for next week, to record any evidence of cruel and unusual punishment in violation of the U.S. Constitution.
Man who walked into Utah hospital with gun is shot, wounded by police
SALT LAKE CITY (Reuters) – A man who walked into a Utah hospital emergency room with a gun was shot four times by a pair of parole officers and critically wounded on Friday, police said.
New Hampshire town urges police commissioner to quit over Obama racial slur
BOSTON (Reuters) – Officials in a small New Hampshire town on Friday urged a police commissioner to resign after he admitted calling U.S. President Barack Obama the ‘N’ word and refused to apologize.
Crack-smoking Bahamian pleads guilty to smuggling Haitians
MIAMI (Reuters) – A Bahamian man who was allegedly drunk and high on crack cocaine when his boat carrying more than a dozen migrants capsized a few miles from Miami has pleaded guilty to charges of smuggling migrants and convicted felons into the Unite…
Report says firefighters killed at Texas plant explosion were unprepared
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The 12 firefighters who died battling a blaze at a Texas fertilizer plant last year were unprepared for the ferocity of the fire and should have focused on evacuating the area rather than extinguishing the flames, said a report rel…
California voters to consider raising four-decade-old cap on medical malpractice awards
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – California in November will vote on whether to raise a four-decade-old cap on medical malpractice awards to $1.1 million, from $250,000, officials said on Thursday, likely ensuring a bitter and costly fight between lawyers bac…
Accused Boston bomber’s friend suspected guilt, agent says
BOSTON (Reuters) – A friend of accused Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev took a backpack and laptop from the suspect’s dorm room, then threw them away after he began to suspect Tsarnaev had carried out the attack, a federal agent testified on Th…
New York’s pension ‘smoothing’ may short-change retirement fund
NEW YORK (Reuters) – New Yorkers who rely on the state pension fund for their retirement may be short-changed about $735 million over the next 10 years as a result of Governor Andrew Cuomo’s policy of permitting local authorities to defer fund payments…
