Houston area school evacuated over possible explosive device
HOUSTON (Reuters) – A Houston-area school was evacuated on Monday after a possible explosive device was found near its premises, local TV broadcasters reported school officials as saying.
Supreme Court will not hear Arizona abortion law appeal
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear Arizona’s appeal of a lower-court ruling that declared unconstitutional a state law banning abortions beginning at 20 weeks of fetal gestation, meaning the restrictive measure is struc…
Two die after falling into river in Chicago after dropping phone
CHICAGO (Reuters) – An effort to retrieve a dropped cell phone ended in tragedy on Monday when a 26-year-old man died after falling into the icy Chicago River near downtown Chicago, and a 21-year-old woman who was with him was presumed dead after also …
Philanthropists pledge over $330 million to help Detroit art museum
(Reuters) – U.S. philanthropic foundations have pledged more than $330 million to help preserve the Detroit Institute of Art’s collection and assist in shoring up the cash-strapped city’s employee pensions, the mediators overseeing Detroit’s bankruptcy…
U.S. probing why Southwest jet landed at wrong Missouri airport
KANSAS CITY, Missouri (Reuters) – U.S. authorities are investigating why a Southwest Airlines Co jet carrying 124 passengers landed at the wrong airport near Branson, Missouri, late Sunday, a Federal Aviation Administration spokeswoman said Monday.
U.S. top court seeks Obama administration’s views in Madoff trustee case
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday asked the administration of President Barack Obama to weigh in on whether the trustee seeking money for the victims of convicted Ponzi-schemer Bernard Madoff can recover damages from banks he accu…
UAE PM says treatment of jailed American was unsatisfactory
DUBAI (Reuters) – The prime minister of the United Arab Emirates said on Monday that the treatment of a U.S. citizen who spent nine months in jail for posting a parody video on YouTube was unsatisfactory, and suggested it was a mistake the UAE would le…
Lawsuit delays bond sale for new NFL stadium in Minneapolis: report
(Reuters) – Officials in Minnesota said on Sunday a lawsuit filed in state supreme court challenging the funding of a new stadium for the National Football League’s Vikings will postpone a bond sale, according to local media.
Myth-busting librarians debunk rumors about Texas’ Wild West laws
AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) – Legend has it that the long arm of Texas law once extended to hotel balconies where the men with star badges would take into custody anyone who violated a state statute forbidding people to hunt buffalo from such a perch.
Taxes on severance pay? U.S. Supreme Court to hear case
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Obama administration on Tuesday will fight before the Supreme Court to keep a defunct retailer from potentially triggering a wave of tax refund claims that could drain $1 billion from major U.S. social programs.
