To see U.S. wealth gap, look no further than Washington
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama is making income inequality an issue in midterm elections, and proof of the gap between rich and poor is close at hand right outside the White House.
Rain soaks California causing floods, but won’t end drought
SACRAMENTO, California (Reuters) – A large winter storm brought much-needed relief to parched California on Friday, boosting depleted reservoirs and the Sierra Nevada’s mountain snowpack, but officials said the precipitation would be too little to offs…
North Carolina cites Duke Energy in coal ash spill
(Reuters) – State regulators in North Carolina on Friday said Duke Energy Corp violated environmental laws and could face quotidian fines after a massive spill of toxic coal ash this month contaminated water and wildlife in the Dan River.
Three injured in avalanche that engulfed Montana home
(Reuters) – An avalanche swept down a mountainside into a Missoula, Montana, neighborhood on Friday and crushed the two-story home of an elderly couple, burying them in snow along with a young boy nearby, but all three were later found alive, police sa…
Detroit creditors want more time to vet city’s bankruptcy plan
(Reuters) – Detroit faces a long legal fight over its valuable art collection and other key matters in its historic bankruptcy case that make it imperative to push back the start of a trial on the city’s debt adjustment plan, a bond insurer argued on F…
No charges in shooting of Georgia Alzheimer’s patient, prosecutor says
ATLANTA (Reuters) – A Georgia man who last November shot and killed a 72-year-old Alzheimer’s patient who rang at his front door will not be charged with a crime because the homeowner feared for his safety, a county prosecutor said on Friday.
Documents show 1990s effort to ‘humanize’ Hillary Clinton
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Aides in former President Bill Clinton’s White House crafted a strategy to “humanize” then-first lady Hillary Clinton and work around her “aversion” to the national media, according to documents released on Friday.
Sisters’ jail visits to accused Boston bomber not confidential: prosecutors
BOSTON (Reuters) – Joint prison visits to accused Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev by his sisters and attorneys should not be treated as confidential lawyer-client meetings, U.S. prosecutors argued in court papers filed Friday.
Friday night goes dark as Texas school shuts $60 million football stadium
DALLAS (Reuters) – One of the most expensive high school football stadiums in the United States has been temporarily shut due to structural problems less than two years after it opened in the Dallas suburb of Allen.
New U.S. rail rules will not revamp old oil tank fleet
NEW YORK/CALGARY (Reuters) – New U.S. rules to toughen classification standards for oil-train shipments will affect less than 3 percent of the tank cars now hauling crude across the country, leaving older, flawed models on the tracks, officials and ind…
