California lawmaker indicted on bribery, corruption charges
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – A California state senator has been indicted on federal charges that he accepted some $100,000 in bribes from a businessman and undercover FBI agents posing as Hollywood movie executives in exchange for steering legislation in t…
Same-sex couples allowed to wed in Cook County, Illinois
CHICAGO (Reuters) – Same-sex couples in Illinois’ Cook County, which includes the city of Chicago, can wed immediately and do not have to wait to tie the knot until a new state law legalizing gay marriage takes effect in June, a federal judge ruled on …
U. of Mississippi seeks to question 3 students about noose on statue
JACKSON, Mississippi (Reuters) – The University of Mississippi wants to question three white male students who may have been involved in draping a noose over a statue of James Meredith, the African-American student who braved segregationist mobs to int…
Man charged in fan beating death outside NFL game in Missouri
KANSAS CITY, Missouri (Reuters) – A Missouri man was charged with involuntary manslaughter on Friday in the beating death of a football fan in the stadium parking lot outside a Kansas City Chiefs game.
Oregon teens charged in swastika-carving attack on student
PORTLAND, Oregon (Reuters) – Four Portland teenagers have been charged with luring another teen into a shed, hitting him with a crowbar, shooting him with a BB gun, forcing him to eat cat feces and carving a swastika on his forehead, court documents pr…
Federal water allocation for drought-stricken California farms cut to zero
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – The worsening drought in California will force a first-ever complete cutoff of federally supplied irrigation water to most farm districts throughout the state’s Central Valley heartland this year, the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation …
Winds batter southeast after snowstorm, tornadoes blast Midwest
(Reuters) – A powerful storm that blasted the north central United States with heavy, wet snow and damaging tornadoes pushed onward Friday, threatening more twisters, severe thunderstorms and high winds in the southeastern states, forecasters said.
Coca-Cola moves toward bottling deals in Chicago, Central Florida
BOCA RATON, Florida (Reuters) – Coca-Cola Co on Friday announced deals to sell bottling operations in Greater Chicago and Central Florida, as it slowly undoes its 2010 purchase of its North American bottler.
Court allows appeals of Detroit bankruptcy eligibility
(Reuters) – A court on Friday said it will hear direct appeals by seven groups of petitioners, including pension plans for Detroit’s police and firefighters, regarding the city’s eligibility for bankruptcy.
Zimbabwe court orders deportation of former congressman
HARARE (Reuters) – A Zimbabwean court dismissed pornography charges against former congressman Mel Reynolds on Friday but ordered his deportation after he pleaded guilty to staying in the southern African country on an expired visa.
