Amid criticism, California to modify solitary confinement rules
SACRAMENTO, California (Reuters) – Long criticized for keeping inmates in near-solitary conditions for years on end, California is developing reforms that would make it harder to send convicts to isolation-style units and offer a way out to those alrea…
Milwaukee Catholic archdiocese plans compensation fund for abuse victims
MILWAUKEE (Reuters) – The Catholic Archdiocese of Milwaukee said on Wednesday it has proposed a restructuring plan for the U.S. Bankruptcy Court that would establish a sex abuse victim compensation fund worth $4 million, an amount advocates called woef…
Limits on marijuana advertising land Colorado in court
DENVER (Reuters) – Two publications have sued Colorado in federal court over restrictions that prohibit the state’s legalized recreational marijuana industry from advertising on television, radio, online or in most print publications.
U.S. says 3.3 million have enrolled in private Obamacare coverage
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Obama administration on Wednesday said the number of people who have enrolled in private Obamacare health plans rose to 3.3 million from October 1 to February 1, providing new evidence that its effort to extend coverage to th…
Sinkhole gobbles up eight vintage Corvettes at Kentucky museum
NASHVILLE, Tenn (Reuters) – A 40-foot sinkhole opened up under the National Corvette Museum in Kentucky on Wednesday and swallowed eight collector cars, including the historic one millionth Corvette built in 1992.
U.S. Congress approves debt limit hike after Senate drama
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Congress approved an increase in the country’s debt limit through March 2015, bowing to President Barack Obama’s demands for a debt limit increase without any conditions, but only after a dramatic Senate vote on Wednesda…
Kentucky must honor out-of-state same-sex marriages -judge
(Reuters) – Kentucky must recognize the legal same-sex marriages of residents who wed outside the state, a federal judge said on Wednesday in the latest of a string of rulings that expand gay rights following a U.S. Supreme Court decision last year.
Analysis: Judge throws manufacturers a lifeline with asbestos ruling
WILMINGTON, Delaware (Reuters) – A judge who found what he called a “startling pattern” of abuse by plaintiffs’ lawyers may have shifted the landscape of asbestos litigation with a ruling in favor of manufacturers.
Storm, bringing deadly ice and snow, slams U.S. South
ATLANTA (Reuters) – A deadly winter storm potentially more destructive than the one that paralyzed Atlanta just two weeks ago gripped the southern United States on Wednesday, crippling travel, knocking out power to more than 330,000 customers and encas…
Kroger sued for not telling ‘Simple Truth’ on chicken labels
CHICAGO (Reuters) – Kroger Co, the biggest U.S. supermarket operator, faces a lawsuit claiming it deceived consumers by marketing a store brand as humanely raised chicken products when the animals were raised under standard commercial farming.
