Los Angeles should adopt Warren Buffett pension formula: study
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Los Angeles, faced with nearly $10 billion in unfunded pension and retirement liabilities, should adopt the pension formula used by investor Warren Buffett at Berkshire Hathaway Inc to manage the city’s growing retirement costs,…
Brooklyn DA asked to speed up retired detective’s murder case reviews
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Former convicts, inmates’ families and legal activists called on the Brooklyn District Attorney’s office on Wednesday to fast-track its reviews of questionable murder convictions linked to cases involving a retired former homicide …
Data trove shows U.S. doctors reap millions from Medicare
NEW YORK (Reuters) – In 2012, south Florida ophthalmologist Salomon Melgen received $20.8 million in Medicare payments, the highest amount the government health plan for the elderly and disabled paid an individual provider that year, according to a Reu…
Rescued sailboat family returns safely to California aboard Navy ship
SAN DIEGO (Reuters) – A family of four rescued from their sailboat after their infant daughter became seriously ill at sea returned safely to San Diego on Wednesday aboard a U.S. warship that picked them up in the Pacific over the weekend, a Navy spoke…
Miami internal affairs cop arrested on cocaine trafficking charges
MIAMI (Reuters) – An internal affairs officer with the Miami-Dade Police Department has been charged with helping drug smugglers and orchestrating a murder-for-hire plot to have assassins dressed as cops kill their rivals, officials said.
Ex-city officials in California accept plea deal in corruption case
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Five former elected officials from the scandal-plagued California city of Bell pleaded no contest on Wednesday to corruption charges, as cases wind to a close against a number of officials found to have stolen nearly $11 million…
Same-sex couples facing illness sue North Carolina for marriage recognition
WINSTON-SALEM, North Carolina (Reuters) – Three lesbian couples facing urgent health issues sued on Wednesday to force North Carolina to acknowledge their same-sex marriages and allow access to insurance, tax and inheritance benefits.
Obama returns to Fort Hood for second memorial service in five years
FORT HOOD, Texas (Reuters) – As the U.S. flag snapped at half-staff in a stiff breeze, President Barack Obama for the second time in five years attended a solemn memorial service on Wednesday for victims of a tragic shooting at Fort Hood Army base.
N.Y. court dismisses claims over Saudi billionaire’s alleged fraud
(Corrects first name of attorney for Al-Sanea, to Robert instead of Richard, in eighth paragraph.)
U.S. university drops plan to honor critic of Islam
BOSTON (Reuters) – Brandeis University has decided not to award an honorary degree to a Somali-born women’s rights activist who has branded Islam as violent and “a nihilistic cult of death.”
