Same-sex couples challenge Colorado ban on gay marriage
DENVER (Reuters) – Nine same-sex couples filed suit on Wednesday challenging Colorado’s ban on gay marriage, following a recent string of court decisions striking down similar restrictions in New Mexico, Utah and Virginia.
Washington state regulators set stricter limits on pot production
OLYMPIA, Washington (Reuters) – Washington state marijuana regulators moved on Wednesday to curtail the size and number of pot farms it will allow to serve the state’s nascent recreational cannabis market, citing the need to prevent excess supply from …
Hedge fund manager Griffin gives $150 million to Harvard
BOSTON (Reuters) – Billionaire investor Kenneth Griffin, who started his hedge fund in his dormitory room at Harvard University, is donating $150 million to his alma mater in what will be the largest single gift ever made to the Ivy League school.
Martin Luther King Jr.’s Nobel medal, Bible placed in care of court
ATLANTA (Reuters) – Martin Luther King Jr.’s Nobel Peace Prize medal and personal Bible must be moved to a court-controlled safety deposit box, a judge ruled on Wednesday as the late civil rights leader’s children are engaged in a fight over ownership …
Biden: ‘We may not get to 7 million’ by Obamacare deadline
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Vice President Joe Biden acknowledged on Wednesday that it will be hard to reach the target on the number of people signing up for health insurance by a looming March 31 deadline for Obamacare enrollment.
Archdiocese of Los Angeles to pay $13 million in sex abuse settlement
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Seventeen people who brought sexual abuse lawsuits against the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles have won a $13 million legal settlement, with most of the allegations involving a priest who left the country as an investi…
School coach charged with murder in Missouri girl’s abduction
KANSAS CITY, Missouri (Reuters) – A Missouri prosecutor on Wednesday charged an elementary school coach with first degree murder in the death of a 10-year-old girl who had gone missing, hours after authorities said they recovered her body at his home.
Florida woman tricked into abortion seeks fetal protection laws
TALLAHASSEE, Florida (Reuters) – Remee Jo Lee was excited in the winter of 2013 over her pregnancy with a baby she already named Memphis, even though her new boyfriend envisioned a very different future.
Some New York City streets closed due to falling ice, snow
NEW YORK (Reuters) – New Yorkers got a reprieve from the relentless winter weather on Wednesday only to find that the season’s wrath created a fresh menace of large chunks of snow and ice falling from skyscrapers to the sidewalks below.
North Carolina defends coal ash oversight after second leak
RALEIGH, North Carolina (Reuters) – North Carolina state officials defended their oversight of coal ash ponds on Wednesday, a day after a second leak was found to be threatening a river already tainted by toxic sludge from a spill earlier this month.
