New Jersey town to require permit for begging
(Reuters) – The southern New Jersey community of Middle Township will require beggars to have a permit, in response to repeated complaints to police about nuisance panhandling over the past year.
Security tightened for Chicago Marathon after Boston attack
CHICAGO (Reuters) – Increased security will be in effect for Sunday’s Chicago Marathon, the first major marathon staged in the United States since the tragic April bombing at the Boston race, organizers and police said.
During shutdown, U.S. charity to ensure fallen troops’ death benefits
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A private U.S. charity struck a deal with the Pentagon on Wednesday to advance a “death gratuity” to families of American troops who die during the government shutdown, after the Defense Department determined it was legally unabl…
U.S. nuclear agency to shut; reactor report not available
HOUSTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission will shut on Thursday as the agency’s carryover funds have been depleted, the chairman said in a blog.
Judge won’t issue gag order in ex-NFL player murder case
FALL RIVER, Massachusetts (Reuters) – The judge hearing the murder trial of former National Football League star Aaron Hernandez declined on Wednesday to issue a gag order prohibiting lawyers involved in the case from speaking about it publicly.
ACLU sues Ohio for including abortion restrictions in its budget
CLEVELAND (Reuters) – The American Civil Liberties Union of Ohio sued the state over including abortion-related provisions in its budget, in what abortion rights activists charged was an effort to quietly restrict women’s access to clinics.
Arizona executes man convicted of 1978 strangling
PHOENIX/AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) – An Arizona death row inmate convicted of strangling a 74-year-old man and fleeing in the victim’s new Cadillac more than three decades ago was executed by lethal injection on Wednesday, and another man was due to be ex…
Kinder Morgan to build an extension to Eagle Ford pipeline
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Kinder Morgan Energy Partners on Wednesday said it has agreed with an unnamed Eagle Ford oil producer to extend its 300,000 barrels-per-day (bpd) Kinder Morgan Crude Condensate (KMCC) pipeline farther into the southern Texas shale …
Four charged with dereliction in U.S. Navy divers’ deaths
(Reuters) – Four U.S. Navy sailors were charged with dereliction of duty on Wednesday in the death of two divers during a training exercise in Maryland earlier this year.
Fire out, no service impact from Oklahoma pipeline blast
OKLAHOMA CITY (Reuters) – A natural gas pipeline fire in rural northwest Oklahoma was extinguished on Wednesday morning with no injuries reported, and the company that owns it, Northern Natural Gas, is working to determine the cause of the blast, a com…
