Killer avalanches hit U.S. West as fresh snow raises backcountry allure
SALMON, Idaho (Reuters) – Fresh powder in the U.S. West has lured thousands of skiers, snowboarders and snowmobilers to the high country at a time the risk of avalanches has been heightened by weather patterns that are making the snowpack less stable, …
Exclusive: BNSF to take bids to buy up to 5,000 safer oil railcars
HOUSTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) – BNSF Railway Co plans to buy its own fleet of up to 5,000 new crude oil tank cars with safety features that exceed the latest industry standards, the company, a unit of investor Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc, said…
Jury selection begins in NY trial of Kerry Kennedy on driving charge
(Reuters) – Jury selection began on Thursday in the trial of Kerry Kennedy, daughter of assassinated Senator Robert F. Kennedy and the ex-wife of New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, who was charged in 2012 after swerving her car into a tractor trailer and …
E-cig industry on tenterhooks ahead of U.S. regulation
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Lobbyists for electronic cigarette companies have been beating a path to the White House, hoping to prevent the administration from imposing strict, and possibly costly, rules on the burgeoning $2 billion industry.
Obama, Harper bet cases of beer on U.S.-Canada Olympic hockey games
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama and Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper have put both national pride and cases of beer on the line in a friendly wager on the Canada-U.S. Olympic hockey matches.
Mississippi church floor collapses, around 35 injured: report
(Reuters) – As many as 35 young worshippers were injured after part of a second floor of a Mississippi church collapsed during a Wednesday evening youth service, the organization’s pastor said, according to one local media report.
U.S. lottery winner scoops $425 million jackpot; 6th biggest ever
(Reuters) – A single ticket bought in the San Francisco bay area scooped the sixth highest lottery jackpot in U.S. history on Wednesday, winning roughly $425 million, lottery officials said.
Suspect questioned in Pittsburgh murder of Iowa lawmaker’s sisters: TV
(Reuters) – Pittsburgh police were questioning a man on Wednesday they say could be linked to the killing of two sisters of an Iowa politician who were found shot nearly two weeks ago, Pennsylvania media reported.
Keystone pipeline approval in limbo after Nebraska ruling
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A Nebraska court on Wednesday voided the governor’s decision to allow the Keystone XL pipeline to pass through the Midwestern state, creating another snag for the controversial project to link Canada’s oil sands with refineries i…
Accused Colorado movie theater gunman ordered to undergo new sanity exam
DENVER (Reuters) – The man charged with mass murder for a shooting rampage that killed 12 people in a suburban Denver movie theater must submit to a second pretrial sanity examination because the first was incomplete and inadequate, a Colorado judge ru…
