Broke Shamokin, Pennsylvania, seeks state crutch that few cast off
HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania (Reuters) – Shamokin, Pennsylvania, tucked away in the coal country about 120 miles northwest of Philadelphia, has $800,000 of unpaid bills and can’t get a loan from a bank. It’s so broke, the gas service to city hall was tempo…
Ranbaxy recalls nearly 30,000 packs of allergy-relief drug in U.S.
MUMBAI (Reuters) – Indian drugmaker Ranbaxy Laboratories Ltd started recalling 29,790 packs of an allergy-relief medicine in the United States in February, after finding defects in the packaging, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said.
Los Angeles Clippers owner Sterling battling cancer: report
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling, newly banned from basketball over racist comments attributed to him, has been battling prostate cancer, sports network ESPN and other media reported on Thursday.
Utah ranchers sue to force reduction in wild horse population
SALT LAKE CITY (Reuters) – A group of Utah ranchers has asked a judge to order the Bureau of Land Management to reduce the number of wild horses roaming public grazing lands, saying the agency has failed to manage the herds which area decimating grasse…
Flood warnings in place after record rains soak eastern U.S.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Flood warnings were posted across the eastern United States on Thursday after a powerful storm system unleashed record amounts of rain from New England to Florida, and as the death toll rose from ferocious storms earlier in the w…
Phoenix veterans hospital chief put on leave, care delay probed
PHOENIX (Reuters) – The top official at a Phoenix veterans hospital was placed on indefinite leave on Thursday while regulators probe whistleblowers’ claims that delayed care may have led to the deaths of as many as 40 veterans, the head of U.S. vetera…
Trial to begin Friday in murder of missing Virginia girl
LOVINGSTON, Virginia (Reuters) – Opening arguments are set to begin Friday in the murder trial of a 48-year-old handyman accused of abducting and killing a Virginia girl whose body has never been found.
Montana lawmaker vows to repeal self-defense law after German teen’s death
(Reuters) – A Montana legislator said on Thursday she would seek to repeal the state’s so-called “castle doctrine” after attorneys for a man accused of killing an unarmed German teenager said they would use the stand-your-ground style law in his defens…
Worker found dead in dough machine at Texas fortune cookie factory
AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) – A 26-year-old worker at a fortune cookie factor died of multiple blunt trauma injuries after falling into a dough-mixing machine at a factory in Houston over the weekend, a medical examiner’s office said on Thursday.
California, most populous U.S. state, gains 356,000 residents
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – California gained 356,000 people in 2013, many attracted to the San Francisco Bay area and its prospering technology industry, a state demographer said on Thursday.
