Toyota to start settlement talks for acceleration cases
(Reuters) – Toyota Motor Corp will begin talks to potentially settle hundreds of lawsuits alleging that defects caused some of its vehicles to unexpectedly accelerate, according to a court filing.
Teacher, father recall terror, grief a year after Connecticut shooting
GREENWICH, Conn (Reuters) – It has been a year since Kaitlin Roig barricaded herself and 15 first-graders in a bathroom at Sandy Hook Elementary School, hiding from a gunman who would go on to kill 26 people in an 11-minute rampage.
Two hurt in plant explosions south of Chicago
CHICAGO (Reuters) – Two people were injured on Friday in explosions at a chemical plant in a suburb of Chicago, a local official said.
Amazon pressed on gun accessory sales, a year after Newtown
BOSTON (Reuters) – Activist investors have asked Amazon.com Inc to review its sales of firearms accessories, concerned that the online retailer offers products that could be used to convert semi-automatic rifles into weapons that fire too rapidly to be…
Union head says Boeing contract offer not much improved
OLYMPIA, Washington (Reuters) – Machinist union leaders rejected a second contract offer from Boeing Co, which would have secured work on the new 777X jetliner for the Seattle area, because it differed little from an offer that union members had alread…
Ohio man who shot wife at hospital sentenced to 6 years
CLEVELAND (Reuters) – A man convicted of shooting his wife to death while she was lying in a hospital bed was sentenced by an Ohio judge on Friday to six years in prison after prosecutors requested leniency in the case.
Cantor Fitzgerald, American Airlines settle 9/11 lawsuit
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Cantor Fitzgerald has agreed to settle a lawsuit against American Airlines Group Inc and its insurers over business and property losses stemming from the September 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center, in which the Wall Stre…
Man arrested in stabbing of four outside Denver NFL stadium
DENVER (Reuters) – A 29-year-old man has been arrested in Colorado on suspicion of stabbing four people in a parking lot outside the stadium hosting a National Football League game between the Denver Broncos and San Diego Chargers, police said on Frida…
California high-speed rail grinds on as troubles mount
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Dan Richard is determined to keep California’s plan for building an 800-mile (1,300-km) high-speed rail system on track despite two recent court rulings against it and rising criticism of the effort.
Half-brother of golfer Tiger Woods arrested over bomb threat
PHOENIX (Reuters) – U.S. golfer Tiger Woods’ half-brother was arrested for making a bomb threat to the Arizona state government building where he works, in what he described as a joke, Phoenix police said on Friday.
