Toy weapons won’t look like real ones under California proposal
SACRAMENTO, California (Reuters) – Toy weapons would no longer be allowed to resemble real guns in California under a bill that advanced in the state legislature on Tuesday aimed at preventing children engaged in harmless play from being mistaken as ar…
U.S. judge frees anarchist jailed for refusal to testify in bomb probe
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A federal judge on Tuesday freed a self-described anarchist jailed for refusing to testify before a grand jury over a 2008 bombing, saying jail time was not going to induce him to cooperate.
Texas teen escapes death when parachute fails on birthday dive
DALLAS (Reuters) – A Texas girl on a dream skydiving trip to celebrate her 16th birthday narrowly escaped death on her first jump when her parachute malfunctioned at 3,500 feet and she crashed to the ground.
U.S. rests its case in insider trading trial of SAC’s Martoma
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Steven A. Cohen tried to sell stock as quietly as possible as SAC Capital Advisors unwound positions at the center of an insider trading trial, the hedge fund’s head trader said on Thursday.
U.S. postal workers protest outside California Staples
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Dozens of United States Postal Service workers took to the streets of San Francisco on Tuesday in the first of a series of planned protests against expanding post office services to Staples Inc stores using non-union workers.
Daughters of Texas Democrat Davis defend mother in bio brouhaha
AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) – The daughters of Texas gubernatorial candidate Wendy Davis rallied to her defense against accusations that their mother embellished her biography, saying in open letters released on Tuesday they wanted to “set the record strai…
U.S. border officials ground fleet of drones after crash at sea
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – U.S. Customs and Border Protection has indefinitely grounded its remaining fleet of nine drones after operators were forced to crash a pilotless aircraft off the Southern California coast because of a mechanical problem, a spoke…
Georgia bill would seek limited access to medical marijuana strain
ATLANTA (Reuters) – Georgia state representative Allen Peake introduced a bill on Tuesday that would legalize a non-psychoactive strain of marijuana strictly limited to patients with severe seizure disorders.
Delaware doctor accused of waterboarding stepdaughter as trial opens
GEORGETOWN, Delaware (Reuters) – A well-known Delaware pediatrician force-fed his 11-year-old stepdaughter, forbade her from using the bathroom and used “waterboarding” to discipline her, a prosecutor said on Tuesday at the opening of the doctor’s tria…
Obama to lay out go-it-alone approach in State of Union speech
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama will lay out his strategy for getting around a divided Congress starting with a wage hike for federal contract workers in a State of the Union speech on Tuesday that reflects scaled-back legislative ambitio…
