California considers distributing condoms to prisoners
SACRAMENTO, California (Reuters) – Condoms could eventually be distributed to California prison inmates under a bill that moved forward in the state Senate on Tuesday, setting the stage for potential pushback from Governor Jerry Brown, who vetoed a sim…
U.S. court says trademarks can’t disparage religious, ethnic groups
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A U.S. appeals court on Tuesday upheld a decision to refuse to allow the owners of a website titled “Stop! Islamization of America” to trademark the site’s name, in a case that legal experts think has implications for the long-ru…
Pennsylvania’s Haverford College latest to lose commencement speaker
PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) – A former chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley, has backed out of a commencement speech at Haverford College over student opposition to actions he took in response to the Occupy movement on the California campus….
Five students injured in shooting near Atlanta area high school
ATLANTA (Reuters) – Five students were shot near an Atlanta area high school on Tuesday afternoon, although none of the injuries was life threatening, police said.
Two U.S. health workers ill after MERS exposure; World Health Organization meets
(Reuters) – Two health workers at a Florida hospital exposed to a patient with Middle East Respiratory Syndrome have begun showing flu-like symptoms, raising concerns about the ability of global health authorities to contain the mysterious and deadly v…
New Mexico county defies U.S. government over cattle grazing
ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico (Reuters) – A rural New Mexico county has voted to defy the federal government and give a rancher’s cattle access to a watering hole fenced off by the Forest Service in the latest dispute over federal control of public land in t…
U.S. appeals court grants stay hours before Texas execution
AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) – A U.S. appeals court granted a stay of execution for a Texas inmate hours before he was to be put to death on Tuesday to see if the punishment should be suspended because the convict was intellectually disabled.
Ninety people arrested across U.S. in $260 million Medicare fraud
MIAMI (Reuters) – Ninety people, including doctors, pharmacy owners and elderly patients, were arrested this week in six cities and charged with submitting fake billings to Medicare worth nearly $260 million, federal officials said on Tuesday.
Climber falls to death from atop Oregon’s Mt Hood
PORTLAND, Oregon (Reuters) – A climber is thought to have fallen roughly 700 to 800 feet to his death from the top of Oregon’s Mt. Hood on Tuesday as at least one other stunned climber looked on, the Hood River Sheriff’s Office said.
FBI agent recalls search for Boston bomber at hearing
BOSTON (Reuters) – Four days after the Boston Marathon bombings, with much of the metropolitan area locked down as police conducted a manhunt, an FBI team raided an apartment an hour south of the city where they thought the suspect was hiding, an agent…
