Toy guns won’t look like real ones under proposed California bill
SACRAMENTO, California (Reuters) – Pellet guns and other toy weaponry should not be allowed to look like the real thing, a California lawmaker said Friday, vowing to introduce a bill to ban such replicas following the accidental killing of a 13-year-ol…
Pennsylvania court may hear gay marriage ban challenge in June
HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania (Reuters) – One of the first challenges to a state ban on gay marriage since the U.S. Supreme Court partially struck down the federal Defense of Marriage Act is likely to go to trial in June in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
On 50th anniversary of JFK death – tears, memories, suspicion
DALLAS (Reuters) – U.S. President John F. Kennedy was remembered as a transcendent leader of a rising nation at a ceremony in Dallas on Friday, the 50th anniversary of his assassination, while bitterness remained for many who disbelieve the official st…
Son of U.S. man held in N. Korea says has not heard from father
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – The son of an 85-year-old California retiree and Korean War veteran who was detained by North Korean authorities last month during a trip to the reclusive Asian nation said on Friday he has had no communication with his father s…
Three wounded in Ohio shooting spree; police kill suspect
(Reuters) – An Ohio man suspected of critically wounding an ex-girlfriend and the son of another former girlfriend in a shooting rampage on Friday was killed by police in a gunfight in a store parking lot that left an officer seriously wounded, police …
Rights group asks U.S. judge to halt NSA phone data program
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The American Civil Liberties Union on Friday urged a federal judge to halt a U.S. spy agency’s sweeping collection of telephone data, arguing that the program goes beyond what Congress authorized and violates the constitutional rig…
Toronto’s scandal-hit mayor still has 42 percent approval
TORONTO (Reuters) – More than 40 percent of Toronto voters still approve of the job Mayor Rob Ford has done, even after he admitted smoking crack cocaine and city council stripped him of much of his authority.
Americans get extra week to sign up for Obamacare as website improves
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Americans hoping to sign up for health insurance under President Barack Obama’s healthcare reform law will have an additional eight days to do so for coverage to begin January 1, 2014, officials said on Friday.
Mass. crime lab chemist sentenced to 3-5 years for tampering
BOSTON (Reuters) – A former Massachusetts crime lab chemist was sentenced to three to five years in prison on Friday after pleading guilty to tampering with evidence and other charges in a case that shook the foundations of the state’s criminal justice…
North Korea confirms detention of U.S. citizen: State Department
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – North Korea has confirmed through Swedish officials in Pyongyang that it has detained a U.S. citizen, a State Department official said on Friday, after reports that an 85-year-old California man was pulled off a plane as he was a…
