U.S. rail tank car safety standards due in weeks: lawmaker
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. officials have promised to issue within weeks new safety standards for the kind of tank cars involved in a spate of fiery derailments in recent months, a lawmaker said on Thursday.
Senate negotiators near deal on unemployment benefits
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Senate negotiators were close to a deal on extending expired jobless benefits through November and paying the estimated $18 billion cost through future spending cuts, a senior Senate Democratic aide said on Thursday.
Man charged with misdemeanor in Missouri case Anonymous publicized
(Reuters) – A Missouri man accused of sexually assaulting a teenage girl at a 2012 party was charged Thursday with misdemeanor endangering the welfare of a child in a case publicized by the hacker group Anonymous, according to court records.
San Diego-based gang ran prostitutes across U.S., prosecutors say
(Reuters) – U.S. authorities have indicted two dozen gang members accused of operating a vast California-based human trafficking ring that sent women and underage girls across state lines for prostitution, in what prosecutors likened to modern-day slav…
Record freeze extends to eastern United States, at least nine dead
NEW YORK/MILWAUKEE (Reuters) – A deadly blast of arctic air shattered decades-old temperature records as it enveloped the eastern United States on Tuesday, snarling air, road and rail travel, driving energy prices higher and overwhelming shelters for h…
Roche’s Tamiflu for children temporarily in short supply in U.S.
(Reuters) – In what is shaping up to be a tough and widespread flu season in the United States, one of the leading medicines used to treat children with the sometimes deadly virus is in short supply.
U.S. Air Force to begin recovery of helicopter crash airmen
LONDON (Reuters) – The U.S. Air Force will start to recover on Thursday the bodies of four American airmen from the wreckage of a helicopter that crashed two days ago in remote coastal marshland in eastern England, British police said.
Maine governor to state attorney general: ‘Sue me’
BOWDOINHAM, Maine (Reuters) – It is not every day that a U.S. governor asks his own state’s attorney general to sue him, but that was Maine Republican Paul LePage’s response to Democrat Janet Mills’ demand that he release a report on the state’s welfar…
Corruption trial of Trenton, N.J. mayor to begin
(Reuters) – Opening arguments were set to begin Thursday in the corruption trial of the mayor of New Jersey’s capital city and his brother, both of whom were accused of bribery and extortion after a sting operation involving a parking garage developmen…
Oklahoma to execute man who killed store manager in robbery
OKLAHOMA CITY (Reuters) – Oklahoma on Thursday is scheduled to execute a man convicted of beating a convenience store manager to death with a baseball bat during a robbery in 1995.
