Miami developer seeks to build landmark oceanfront observation tower
MIAMI (Reuters) – Paris has the Eiffel Tower and now a developer is hoping to give Miami its own eye-catching landmark.
Days before launch, Obamacare website failed to handle even 500 users
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – In the last days before the botched October 1 launch of President Barack Obama’s healthcare website, the team in charge was seeing alarming results from performance tests, according to internal emails released by Republican lawma…
Victim in Sandusky sex abuse case sues the ex-coach, Penn State
(Reuters) – A man who testified last year at Jerry Sandusky’s child sex abuse trial about years of sexual assault sued the former football coach and Pennsylvania State University on Thursday, his lawyer said.
Defense contractor tentatively granted bail in U.S. Navy bribery case
SAN DIEGO (Reuters) – A defense contractor accused of plying U.S. Navy officials with cash, travel, concerts and prostitutes in a bid to win business for his firm was granted bail on Thursday by a federal magistrate who stayed her ruling pending a revi…
Professor jailed after rejecting plea deal in U.S. murder case
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – A professor at a Swiss university accused of helping arrange the 1995 murder of a man who she says raped her when she was a college student in California was jailed on Thursday after prosecutors said she was no longer cooperatin…
Oregon man held on $5 million bail in bombing of prosecutor’s office
PORTLAND, Oregon (Reuters) – A man charged with bombing a prosecutor’s office in southwestern Oregon last week was ordered held on $5 million bail on Thursday, in a case police said was being investigated as an act of domestic terrorism.
Trial of accused Colorado theater gunman postponed
CENTENNIAL, Colo. (Reuters) – The murder trial for the man charged with shooting 12 people to death at a Denver-area movie theater was postponed indefinitely on Thursday to deal with requests by prosecutors for further mental evaluations of the accused…
Miami to begin port dredge in readiness for Panama canal expansion
MIAMI (Reuters) – The long-awaited dredge of Miami’s port will begin this week as it and other cities up and down the east coast scramble to prepare for the massive ships that will pass through the Panama Canal when expansion work there is completed in…
U.S. regulators to consider in-flight calls, text messaging
WASHINGTON/ATLANTA (Reuters) – The U.S. Federal Communications Commission is considering allowing airplane passengers to use their cellphones for calls and text messaging during flights, setting up a challenging debate over technical and social implica…
Accused killer pleads not guilty to murder of New York’s ‘Baby Hope’
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The accused killer of a small girl dubbed “Baby Hope” whose death was a mystery for more than two decades pleaded not guilty to her murder on Thursday.
