One dead, one missing in Chicago River after man drops phone
CHICAGO (Reuters) – An effort to retrieve a dropped cell phone ended in tragedy on Monday when a 26-year-old man died after falling into the icy Chicago River near downtown Chicago, and a 21-year-old woman who was with him was presumed dead after also …
Photographer sued over topless photo atop Empire State Building
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The management of the Empire State Building on Monday filed a $1 million lawsuit against a photographer who shot topless pictures of model atop its iconic 86th floor observatory.
California’s ‘Octomom’ charged with welfare fraud
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Nadya Suleman, the California single mother of 14 children including octuplets who has been popularly dubbed “Octomom,” has been charged with welfare fraud over accusations she lied about her income to authorities, prosecutors s…
Man shot dead at Florida theater showing ‘Lone Survivor’
MIAMI (Reuters) – A moviegoer shot and killed one person and wounded another on Monday when an argument over text messaging in a Florida theater showing the hit new war film “Lone Survivor” erupted in gunfire, authorities said.
NY woman gets one year in jail for punching Wal-Mart greeter
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A New York woman was sentenced on Monday under the state’s “Granny Law” to one year in jail for punching an elderly Wal-Mart greeter in the face after a Christmas Eve shopping spree.
Tap water use OK’d in some West Virginia areas after spill
(Reuters) – West Virginia officials on Monday lifted a ban on drinking or bathing with tap water in some areas of the state hit by a chemical spill that affected hundreds of thousands of people for five days, Governor Earl Ray Tomblin said.
U.S. to pay $8.4 million to victims, responders at Boston bombing
BOSTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Justice Department on Monday said it would make an $8.4 million grant to groups helping victims and first responders involved in the bombing attack at the 2013 Boston Marathon.
Yankees’ Rodriguez asks federal judge to throw out MLB suspension
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Embattled New York Yankees slugger Alex Rodriguez asked a federal judge on Monday to throw out an arbitrator’s decision suspending him for the 2014 baseball season for doping, escalating a battle with Major League Baseball that sho…
Colorado to launch ‘don’t drive stoned’ ads with U.S. funding
DENVER (Reuters) – Colorado will warn motorists against driving stoned in a campaign backed by $430,000 in new federal funding, officials said on Monday, two weeks after the first U.S. recreational marijuana retail shops opened in the state.
Gay-marriage ban considered by Indiana lawmakers
INDIANAPOLIS (Reuters) – Indiana lawmakers on Monday heard arguments on a proposed state constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage, bucking a U.S. trend in the past two years of states, voters and courts allowing gays to marry.
