U.S. state tax revenues hit record highs in second quarter: Census
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Tax revenues for U.S. states soared to their highest in 25 years in the second quarter as personal income tax collections reached record amounts, U.S. Census data released on Tuesday showed.
NCAA restoring some football scholarships at Penn State
PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) – The organization which regulates U.S. college sports, the NCAA, said on Tuesday it would allow Penn State to gradually restore scholarships for football because the university had made progress in regaining “integrity” followin…
Four men now charged in Chicago shooting that hurt 13
CHICAGO (Reuters) – Gang members sprayed bullets into a Chicago city park last week – injuring a three-year-old boy and 12 other people – after one of them had been grazed by a bullet hours earlier, police said on Tuesday.
Four men now charged in Chicago shooting that hurt 13
CHICAGO (Reuters) – Gang members sprayed bullets into a Chicago city park last week – injuring a three-year-old boy and 12 other people – after one of them had been grazed by a bullet hours earlier, police said on Tuesday.
Heirs of wealthy, reclusive N.Y. heiress settle battle over will
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Battling relatives and other beneficiaries on Tuesday resolved a dispute over the multimillion-dollar estate of Huguette Clark, one of America’s wealthiest heiresses who died in New York City in 2011 at age 104.
Police at North Carolina university kill gunman near campus
WINSTON-SALEM, North Carolina (Reuters) – Campus police at North Carolina Central University in Durham shot and killed a man armed with a shotgun in an incident that prompted a three-hour lockdown at the school, university officials said on Tuesday.
Malfunction shuts BP-Husky Toledo refinery SRUs: sources
HOUSTON (Reuters) – The sulfur recovery units at BP Plc’s 135,000 barrel per day (bpd) joint-venture Toledo, Ohio, refinery were shut on Tuesday due to a malfunction, sources familiar with operations at the refinery said.
New York man faces charges after three-year-old dies in sofa bed
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A New York City man has been charged with endangering the welfare of a 3-year-old girl who died while she was trapped inside his sofa bed, police said Tuesday.
Obama says quit smoking because he was ‘scared of my wife’
NEW YORK (Reuters) – President Barack Obama says he quit smoking for a reason that many husbands can relate to: “I’m scared of my wife.”
Sikh who teaches at Columbia University beaten in possible hate crime
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A Columbia University professor who wears a beard and turban in keeping with his Sikh religion was savagely beaten by teen attackers who shouted anti-Muslim taunts in what police described as a possible hate crime.
