Arizona expands ban denying driver’s licenses to immigrants
PHOENIX (Reuters) – Arizona, long at odds with President Barack Obama’s administration over immigration reform, is expanding a ban on giving driver’s licenses to illegal immigrants to include all those who have been granted relief from deportation, in …
Oklahoma lawmaker begins petition drive for school tornado shelters
OKLAHOMA CITY (Reuters) – An Oklahoma lawmaker began a petition drive on Wednesday to put on the ballot a measure allowing the state to issue $500 million in bonds to finance storm shelters in schools, after a devastating tornado in May killed seven ch…
Kleiner Perkins sex discrimination case to stay in public eye
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – A high-profile Silicon Valley sex discrimination lawsuit moved closer to trial Wednesday after California’s highest court rejected an effort by venture firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers to take a former partner’s case against it to arbitration.
Alaskans to get $900 dividend from oil-wealth fund
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) – Nearly every Alaskan will be $900 richer next month, thanks to an annual payout from the state’s $47 billion oil wealth trust fund that has been credited with keeping many low-income families out of poverty, state official…
$400 million up for grabs in U.S. Powerball drawing
(Reuters) – The U.S. Powerball jackpot drawing on Wednesday is worth an estimated $400 million, the fourth-largest prize in the lottery’s history and the fifth-largest of any U.S. lottery, the Multi-State Lottery Association said.
Marchers protest segregation in Alabama university Greek houses
TUSCALOOSA, Alabama (Reuters) – Hundreds of students, teachers and local residents gathered Wednesday at the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa, the setting of one of the most famous segregation protests of the 1960s, to protest the exclusion of black…
Property losses from Colorado floods to near $2 billion: Eqecat
DENVER (Reuters) – Total property losses from flooding in Colorado will run nearly $2 billion, roughly equally divided between residential losses and those in the commercial and government sectors, disaster modeling firm Eqecat estimated on Wednesday.
Pennsylvania widow says husband’s ashes vanished on trip to England
(Reuters) – A widow traveling from Pennsylvania to England to scatter her husband’s ashes said they disappeared from her U.S. Airways luggage and the airline has neither returned them nor given her an explanation, according to a lawsuit filed on Wednes…
Labor Dept: same-sex spouses can participate in benefit plans
(Reuters) – The Department of Labor on Wednesday said same-sex couples in legal marriages can participate in employee benefit plans, even if the state they live in does not recognize gay marriage.
Miami businessman Osorio sentenced to 12-1/2 years for fraud
MIAMI (Reuters) – A Miami businessman was sentenced to 12-1/2 years in prison for his role in a $40 million investment fraud that promoted low-cost, hurricane-proof houses in Haiti.
