Ex-Fiesta Bowl chief gets eight months for illegal U.S. campaign donations
PHOENIX (Reuters) – The former chief of U.S. college football’s Fiesta Bowl was sentenced to eight months in prison on Thursday for leading a scheme to illegally funnel roughly $50,000 from bowl employees to political campaigns.
Niece creates ‘Mummified in Michigan’ Facebook page to commemorate aunt
(Reuters) – The niece of a Michigan woman whose body is believed to have been found years after she died has created a “Mummified in Michigan” Facebook page to commemorate her as investigators continue to search for clues into her death.
Love story, chronicle of Hurricane Katrina win U.S. book prizes
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A love story that examines modern attitudes about race, a chronicle of the days after Hurricane Katrina and a biography of Anglo-Irish satirist Jonathan Swift won National Book Critics Circle awards on Thursday.
U.S. border agent suspected of raping undocumented immigrants found dead
SAN ANTONIO, Texas (Reuters) – A U.S. Border Patrol agent was found dead on Thursday in his Texas home just north of the Mexico border by authorities alerted to allegations he had kidnapped and sexually assaulted three female undocumented immigrants, f…
Nose gear on plane collapses at Philadelphia airport
(Reuters) – A U.S. Airways plane with 149 people on board that was about to take off from Philadelphia International Airport had its nose gear collapse on the runway on Thursday, but no one was injured in the incident, an airport spokeswoman said.
Gay couples sue Florida to recognize marriages in other states
MIAMI (Reuters) – Eight Florida gay couples backed by a gay rights group have filed a lawsuit to force the state to recognize same-sex marriages from other states, saying their exclusion violates the right to equal protection under the U.S. Constitutio…
Partisanship engulfs U.S. Congress effort to avoid doctor pay cut
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A bipartisan deal in Congress to spare doctors from recurring Medicare pay cuts was in jeopardy on Thursday, as Republicans ignored protests from physicians and moved forward with legislation that would use the so-called “doc fix…
New Mexico nuclear repository mishap leaves Los Alamos waste quandary
ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico (Reuters) – The Los Alamos National Laboratory is evaluating how to meet a June deadline to permanently discard plutonium-tainted junk in light of a prolonged shutdown of a New Mexico nuclear waste dump after an accident there l…
Arizona same-sex couples sue state over gay marriage ban
PHOENIX (Reuters) – A group of same-sex couples in Arizona filed a federal lawsuit on Thursday to challenge the state’s ban on gay marriage, arguing that it violates the equal protection clause of the U.S. Constitution, court documents showed.
Florida Supreme Court voids caps on medical malpractice lawsuits
TALLAHASSEE, Florida (Reuters) – The Florida Supreme Court on Thursday struck down a state law that placed a $1 million limit on the amount of money people can be awarded in wrongful death cases caused by medical malpractice.
