More Obamacare insurers in Louisiana reject AIDS patients
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The only three insurance companies in Louisiana that sell healthcare policies under President Barack Obama’s healthcare law throughout the state are rejecting payments from a federal program intended to help low-income HIV patients…
Florida jury deliberates 2nd day in loud music murder trial
JACKSONVILLE, Florida (Reuters) – A north Florida jury resumed deliberations for a second day on Thursday in the trial of a middle-aged software engineer who shot and killed a black teenager in an argument over rap music blaring from the youth’s car.
Vote on gay marriage ban amendment delayed at least two years in Indiana
INDIANAPOLIS (Reuters) – A vote by Indiana residents on a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage was delayed by at least two years on Thursday after the state’s Senate declined to restore language that would have put the amendment on track for t…
U.S. prosecutors open criminal probe of Duke Energy coal ash spill
WINSTON-SALEM, North Carolina (Reuters) – U.S. prosecutors are investigating whether a crime was committed when thousands of tons of coal ash sludge spilled from a Duke Energy power plant in North Carolina in early February into a river that supplies d…
Second trial ordered for U.S. Marine in 2006 death of Iraqi
CAMP PENDLETON, California (Reuters) – A U.S. Marine facing a second-court martial in the 2006 death of an Iraqi civilian was ordered on Thursday to stand trial in August, and said afterwards that he was eager to put his legal troubles behind him.
As Volkswagen workers vote, Tennessee senator ramps up anti-union talk
WASHINGTON/CHATTANOOGA, Tennessee (Reuters) – One of Tennessee’s two U.S. senators ramped up his anti-union rhetoric on Thursday in an attempt to sway workers at Volkswagen AG’s Chattanooga plant who are voting this week on representation by the United…
Lawsuit challenges Alabama’s ban on gay marriage
BIRMINGHAM, Alabama (Reuters) – A civil rights group sued Alabama on Thursday on behalf of a gay man challenging the state’s ban on same-sex marriage, arguing he should be able to claim the estate of his husband who died in a car crash.
Second victim dies in Tennessee package blast, probe continues
NASHVILLE, Tennessee (Reuters) – A Tennessee woman has died from injuries suffered in an explosion that killed her husband, a retired lawyer, at their home this week, state authorities said Thursday.
U.S. drops citation against man whose bride died BASE-jumping in Utah
(Reuters) – U.S. prosecutors have dismissed a misdemeanor citation brought against a man whose wife of two weeks plunged to her death when her parachute failed to open while skydiving from a cliff in Zion National Park.
California lawmaker proposes warning labels for sugary drinks
SACRAMENTO, California (Reuters) – All sodas and other sugar-sweetened drinks sold in California would be required to carry warning labels for obesity, diabetes and tooth decay under a bill introduced in Sacramento on Thursday, backed by several public…
