Florida, Texas execute men convicted of murders
TALLAHASSEE, Fla./AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) – Florida and Texas executed convicted murderers on Tuesday, with Florida using a new drug in its lethal injection procedure that has been challenged in court by death-row inmates who say it would leave them in…
Navy to declare Boeing’s P-8A spy plane ready for use: sources
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Navy is expected to announce on Wednesday that Boeing Co’s P-8A aircraft, a long-range maritime surveillance plane based on the company’s 737 airliner, is ready for initial operational use, sources familiar with the prog…
Homemade fire bomb goes off outside Oregon courthouse
PORTLAND, Oregon (Reuters) – A propane gas tank rigged up as a homemade bomb exploded in flames outside a courthouse before dawn on Wednesday in the southwestern Oregon town of Medford. No one was hurt and damage was minor, police said.
Los Angeles school board looks at laptops after troubled iPad rollout
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – The Los Angeles school board, in the middle of a troubled $1 billion plan to equip each student with an iPad, has voted to try laptops at some high schools before deciding whether to give all its 650,000 pupils a tablet.
How your company is watching your waistline
(Reuters) – Employers tried the carrot, then a small stick. Now they are turning to bigger cudgels.
Iran rockers ‘blinded with rage’ at shooting death of bandmates
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Surviving members of the exiled Iranian rock band the Yellow Dogs said on Wednesday they were “blinded with rage and paralyzed with grief” over the fatal shooting of two of their bandmates in New York City.
Missouri man freed after murder conviction overturned
(Reuters) – A Missouri man imprisoned for nearly a decade for murdering a newspaper editor walked free on Tuesday evening, a week after a state appeals court overturned his conviction.
White House tech chief says ‘making progress’ fixing HealthCare.gov
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A top technology adviser to President Barack Obama said on Wednesday that a team of experts trying to fix the website used to sign up for health insurance is making progress.
Hawaii governor set to sign gay marriage bill into law
HONOLULU (Reuters) – Hawaii was poised to become the 15th U.S. state to extend marriage rights to gay and lesbian couples on Wednesday, with the governor expected to sign a bill legalizing same-sex matrimony a day after it won a final nod from lawmaker…
The next mayor of New York, according to the guy who pours his coffee
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Bill de Blasio, New York City’s next mayor, has been drinking coffee at the Little Purity diner since Nick Kolosakas opened the Brooklyn neighborhood spot six years ago.
