Md. teen among first openly gay Scouts to achieve top rank after ban lift
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A 17-year-old Maryland boy has become one of the first openly gay Boy Scouts to achieve the Boy Scouts of America’s highest rank since the organization reversed its ban on gay youth nearly six weeks ago.
Accused shooter takes stand in Florida loud music murder trial
JACKSONVILLE, Florida (Reuters) – A Florida man who shot and killed a teenager during an argument over loud rap music told jurors on Tuesday that he did “nothing wrong,” having acted in self-defense because he thought he was “going to be killed.”
Maryland police link convict to decades-old case of missing girls
GAITHERSBURG, Maryland (Reuters) – Maryland police on Tuesday named a 57-year-old former carnival ride operator as a person of interest in the case of two young sisters who disappeared while going to see an Easter exhibit at a shopping mall in 1975.
Obama defends latest delay to his healthcare law
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama on Tuesday defended the latest delay in his healthcare law’s employer mandate, saying it follows similar relief his administration has already given to certain individuals.
Heavy ice and snow threaten travel again in U.S. South
WINSTON-SALEM, North Carolina (Reuters) – Another major winter storm unfurled across a wide swath of the U.S. South on Tuesday, and forecasters warned that potentially high accumulations of ice could cripple road travel and result in broad power outage…
Schools locked down in NY’s Nassau County after reports of gunman
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Four schools in Nassau County on New York’s Long Island were locked down on Tuesday after reports of a gunman in the neighborhood, a school official said.
Majority of Americans favor closer U.S.-Cuba ties: poll
MIAMI (Reuters) – Most Americans – and a strong majority of Floridians – support warmer relations with Cuba, according to a poll released on Tuesday by the Atlantic Council, a Washington-based think tank.
Doctor in Delaware waterboarding trial admits to injuring stepdaughter
GEORGETOWN, Delaware (Reuters) – A Delaware pediatrician accused of waterboarding his 11-year-old stepdaughter admitted in court on Tuesday to injuring the girl by dragging her over a gravel driveway in what he described as a moment of carelessness.
New hopes for U.S. data breach law collide with old reality
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Data thefts at U.S. retailers have rekindled enthusiasm in Congress for a single federal law on how customers should be notified about such breaches, but those efforts face the same roadblock as in the past: dozens of overlapping…
U.S. drug czar urges police to carry heroin overdose treatment
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Obama administration on Tuesday urged more local police and fire departments to equip their officers with a medication used to revive people who have overdosed on heroin, citing a troubling increase in deaths from the drug.
