Kansas high school football players accused of hazing teammates
KANSAS CITY, Missouri (Reuters) – Three Kansas high school football players accused of pressing a hot coat hanger to the stomachs of several freshmen players in a hazing incident some have called a branding have been charged with aggravated battery, a …
UAW official who shaped labor deals during auto crisis to retire
DETROIT (Reuters) – General Holiefield, a sometimes controversial United Auto Workers official who negotiated the labor contracts that helped reshaped the U.S. auto industry, will retire next year.
Starbucks wants to recruit 10,000 vets, spouses
(Reuters) – Starbucks Corp is looking for thousands of good men – and women.
Silk Road’s alleged mastermind makes first NY court appearance
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A lawyer for 29-year-old Ross William Ulbricht, the man U.S. prosecutors say operated the anonymous online criminal marketplace Silk Road, on Wednesday said his client would plead not guilty to drug trafficking, hacking and money l…
Oklahoma teen charged with murder in killing of Australian student
DUNCAN, Oklahoma (Reuters) – One of three teens accused of killing an Australian student from an Oklahoma university was charged Wednesday with murder and may have been involved in a shooting earlier that day and another the night before, prosecutors s…
Kennedy kin Skakel can seek bail pending new trial: judge
MILFORD, Connecticut (Reuters) – Kennedy cousin Michael Skakel, who has spent the past 11 years in prison for the 1975 murder of a teenage neighbor in Greenwich, Connecticut, is a step closer to being released on bail while awaiting a new trial.
Colorado an energy battleground as towns ban fracking
DENVER (Reuters) – Three Colorado cities have rejected oil and gas production work that relies on so-called fracking, unofficial election returns showed on Wednesday in a setback for an industry that won other battles this year in Democratic stronghold…
U.S. justices struggle with New York town prayer dispute
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday appeared deeply conflicted over what kind of public prayers should be acceptable at a town meeting as the justices confronted the delicate constitutional issue of church-and-state separation.
Despite blow-out victory, big obstacles for New York mayor-elect
NEW YORK (Reuters) – New York City Mayor-elect Bill de Blasio named his transition team and met with outgoing Mayor Michael Bloomberg on Wednesday, a day after he won America’s biggest city back for Democrats with a 49-point victory over his Republican…
California’s top court grills ‘Fabulist’ Glass in his bid to practice law
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Stephen Glass, one of the most infamous fabricators in modern American journalism, faced a hostile California Supreme Court on Wednesday in his quest to demonstrate that he is a changed man with the moral fiber needed for admi…
