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…
Analysis: Gambling revenue at heart of Detroit’s dilemmas, new and old
CHICAGO/DETROIT (Reuters) – For Detroit, the road in and out of U.S. bankruptcy court is paved with casino money.
New trial sought for South Carolina teen executed for 1944 murders
CHARLESTON, South Carolina (Reuters) – Attorneys in South Carolina say they have fresh evidence that warrants a new trial in the case of a 14-year-old black teenager put to death nearly 70 years ago for the murders of two white girls.
Most New Yorkers support Cuomo medical marijuana pilot plan: poll
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Most New Yorkers support Governor Andrew Cuomo’s plan to allow the use of medical marijuana in a pilot program in up to 20 hospitals, according to a poll released on Monday.
Obama: pot ‘a vice’ but no more dangerous than alcohol
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama believes smoking marijuana is a “bad habit” but thinks legal penalties now fall disproportionately on minorities and that states legalizing pot should go ahead with their plans, he said in a profile release…
Key U.S. senator objects to part of Obama spy data plan
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The head of the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee objected on Sunday to President Barack Obama’s proposal for the government to give up control of the storage of the telephone records of millions of Americans it holds as part of…
Governor Christie’s NJ woes dog Florida fundraising trip
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The New Jersey mayor who added to Governor Chris Christie’s woes with fresh claims that his office punishes uncooperative local officials stuck to her story on Sunday, overshadowing the governor’s fundraising trip in Florida.
