Tennessee couple indicted for pot deal quadruple murder
NASHVILLE, Tennessee (Reuters) – A Tennessee couple were indicted on Friday for the shooting deaths of a woman and three teens in a robbery during a pot deal at a resort community in the state, officials said.
Search narrows for missing in Colorado flood disaster
DENVER (Reuters) – Disaster teams in flood-ravaged foothills of Colorado narrowed their search on Friday for 82 people still unaccounted for a week and a half after torrential rains began, and officials said some of the missing would most likely be add…
NYC Health Department headquarters is bugged – with ones that crawl
NEW YORK (Reuters) – New York City’s Department of Health and Mental Hygiene has a problem — and it sounds more like one for which it might issue a citation than find in its own backyard.
Kentucky authorities hunt for man who killed three at pawn shop
(Reuters) – Kentucky authorities on Friday searched for a gunman who killed three people in a robbery at a pawn shop, forcing a lock-down for several hours at schools including nearby Centre College in Danville, Kentucky.
Chicago police search for suspects in shooting that hurt 13
CHICAGO (Reuters) – Chicago police are searching for suspected gang members who opened fire with an assault weapon at a park late on Thursday, wounding 13 people including a 3-year-old boy, in an attack that highlighted Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s struggle to…
Southern cautions on Kemper coal unit as EPA carbon model
HOUSTON (Reuters) – Southern Co power utility, which is building one of the world’s first advanced coal-fired plants that also captures carbon dioxide emissions, cautioned federal regulators that, because of location, its $5 billion project should not …
U.S. sets first curbs on power plant carbon emissions
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Obama administration on Friday announced first-ever regulations setting strict limits on the amount of carbon pollution that can be generated by any new U.S. power plant, which quickly sparked a backlash from supporters of th…
U.S. to establish cable link to Guantanamo base in two years
GUANTANAMO BAY U.S. NAVAL BASE, Cuba (Reuters) – The U.S. military is laying an undersea fiber-optic cable line to connect its Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba with Florida, and could someday extend it to the rest of Cuba, a Defense Department officia…
Lawsuit accuses JPMorgan of exposing Social Security numbers
NEW YORK (Reuters) – JPMorgan Chase & Co has been hit with a proposed class action lawsuit accusing it of printing Social Security numbers on the outsides of form letters mailed to customers to tell them about the bank’s efforts to protect their private information.
New details emerge in Georgia kidnapping amid hunt for suspects
ATLANTA (Reuters) – Authorities in Georgia on Friday hunted for the fourth straight day for suspects in the kidnapping of a 14-year-old girl, as new details emerged in a case that began with a home invasion in suburban Atlanta.
