Storm packing heavy snow hits U.S. Midwest, Northeast
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Another round of wintry weather battered the U.S. Midwest and East Coast on Saturday as a massive storm spanning more than 1,000 miles dumped heavy snow, snarling air traffic and making roads treacherous for driving.
Orange County Register to start new Los Angeles paper -report
CHICAGO (Reuters) – The publisher of the Orange County Register will start a paper in early 2014 covering Los Angeles County in California, according to a report in the Orange County Register.
Obama marks Newtown school shooting anniversary with call for gun control
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama marked the anniversary of the Newtown school shootings on Saturday by calling for tighter gun control and expanded mental healthcare, and by lighting 26 candles to commemorate the victims.
Part of Utah’s bigamy law struck down in victory for U.S. TV star
SALT LAKE CITY (Reuters) – A U.S. federal judge struck down a portion of Utah’s bigamy laws as unconstitutional on Friday, siding with a reality television star and his four wives.
U.S. Navy official to plead guilty in contracting scandal:report
SAN DIEGO (Reuters) – A U.S. Naval Criminal Investigative Service agent accused of leaking confidential information to a Singapore-based company at the heart of a Navy contracting scandal is scheduled to plead guilty in federal court next week, Califor…
Ohio school employees plead not guilty in Steubenville rape case
STEUBENVILLE, Ohio (Reuters) – Four adults in Steubenville, Ohio, including the school’s superintendent, pleaded not guilty on Friday to charges stemming from the handling of the investigation into the rape of a teenage girl in August 2012.
Cleveland man found guilty in city’s deadliest house fire
CLEVELAND (Reuters) – A Cleveland man accused of setting the city’s deadliest house fire, which killed eight children and a woman, was found guilty by a jury on Friday, a spokesman for the U.S. Attorney’s office said.
Veterans group to fight order to tear down landmark California cross
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – A veterans association that built a massive cross overlooking San Diego as part of a war memorial plans to fight a federal judge’s order to tear it down, a lawyer for the group said on Friday.
American missing in Iran was probing possible money laundering: lawyer
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – An American with links to the Central Intelligence Agency was investigating suspicions that Iranian government officials were diverting petroleum funds and laundering them through Canada when he went missing in Iran in 2007, a la…
Man arrested for suspected suicide plot to blow up Kansas airport
(Reuters) – Authorities said Friday they foiled a suicide bombing plot to blow up the Mid-Continent Airport in Wichita, Kansas, arresting a man who proclaimed himself Muslim and had talked of committing “violent jihad on behalf of al Qaeda.”
