West Virginia looks to tighten rules after chemical spill contaminated water
(Reuters) – West Virginia’s governor on Monday proposed legislation to regulate above-ground storage tanks, a move that comes after a spill of coal-processing chemicals shut off drinking water to about 300,000 people.
Train hauling crude oil derails on Philadelphia bridge
PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) – A freight train carrying crude oil derailed on Monday on a railroad bridge in Philadelphia, forcing the closing of the busy Schuylkill Expressway, authorities said.
Several killed and injured in blast at Nebraska feed plant
OMAHA, Nebraska (Reuters) – An explosion and fire at a feed plant in Omaha, Nebraska, on Monday injured at least 10 people and caused several deaths, authorities said, but did not provide an exact number of fatalities.
Mother, two toddlers stabbed to death in NY apartment
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A 21-year-old woman and her two young toddlers were found stabbed to death on Sunday in their New York City apartment, authorities said.
Commemorations ask what would Martin Luther King Jr. do in 2014?
(Reuters) – Visions of what Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. would do to promote civil rights in 2014, had he not been slain decades ago, marked speeches and commemorations held across the country to honor his memory on Monday.
North Carolina man missing after Grand Cayman dive
MIAMI (Reuters) – Grand Cayman authorities were searching on Monday for a U.S. tourist who disappeared after scuba diving near Seven Mile Beach, a popular dive site on the island’s northwest tip.
Missionary jailed in North Korea wants U.S. to help him come home: media
SEOUL (Reuters) – A U.S. missionary imprisoned in North Korea for more than a year appeared in front of journalists on Monday, in prison clothes and under guard, asking Washington to help him get home, foreign media there reported.
Super Bowl tickets a hot item for chilly NY-area game
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Tickets to the National Football League’s first cold-weather Super Bowl are a hot item, with some climate-controlled suites in New Jersey’s MetLife Stadium priced at $1 million.
Christie No. 2 denies linking Sandy funds to Hoboken development
NEW YORK (Reuters) – New Jersey’s lieutenant governor on Monday denied a claim by the mayor of Hoboken that Governor Chris Christie’s administration linked release of Superstorm Sandy relief funds to approval of a Hoboken development project.
U.S. ex-DEA agent in unlikely new role with pot investment firm
SEATTLE (Reuters) – In a decade with the Drug Enforcement Administration, Patrick Moen rose to supervise a team of agents busting methamphetamine and heroin rings in Oregon – before giving it all up to join the nascent legal marijuana industry in nearb…
