NJ Gov. Christie drops gay marriage case, risking some Republican ire
(Reuters) – New Jersey Governor Chris Christie dropped his legal opposition to same-sex marriage on Monday, making his state the 14th to legalize gay marriage but angering social conservatives who might be crucial to his presidential ambitions in 2016….
Caesars exits Boston casino project, says unit under federal probe
(Reuters) – Caesars Entertainment Inc, the latest U.S. casino operator to fall under federal scrutiny, is pulling out of a $1 billion joint venture in Boston after background checks by a local gaming regulator.
VW, UAW look to avoid Pennsylvania missteps in Tennessee plant
DETROIT (Reuters) – Both Volkswagen AG management and the United Auto Workers union want to see history play out differently in Tennessee from the last time the German automaker had a U.S. assembly plant.
Arizona Air National Guard members indicted on fraud charges
PHOENIX (Reuters) – Members of an Arizona Air National Guard unit in Tucson have been indicted on charges they falsified military records to defraud the U.S. government out of hundreds of thousands of dollars of extra pay meant for troops on deployment…
Casey Anthony reaches settlement with searchers for her 2-year-old
ORLANDO, Florida (Reuters) – Casey Anthony, the Florida mother acquitted in the 2008 killing of her 2-year-old daughter, has reached a settlement with a search and rescue organization that spent $100,000 looking for her missing daughter, the group’s la…
Xcel’s Minnesota Sherco 3 coal unit returns to service
(Reuters) – Xcel Energy Inc’s 860-megawatt Unit 3 at the Sherburne County coal-fired power plant in Minnesota has returned to service after a nearly two-year outage, the company said on Monday.
U.S. high court declines to hear privacy lawsuit against Thomson Reuters
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to consider whether a unit of Thomson Reuters Corp can obtain and sell information on drivers provided by state agencies without violating a federal privacy law.
Missouri judge names prosecutor for Maryville rape probe
KANSAS CITY, Missouri (Reuters) – A Missouri judge appointed a special prosecutor on Monday to take over the investigation of an alleged rape in the town of Maryville, a case that attracted national attention after it was publicized by the computer hac…
North Carolina man charged after toddler daughter shoots herself
WINSTON-SALEM, North Carolina (Reuters) – The father of a 2-year-old North Carolina girl who died after shooting herself with a handgun she found while playing was in jail on Monday facing charges including involuntary manslaughter, police said.
States’ online ‘Amazon tax’ fight may land in U.S. Supreme Court: lawyers
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Diverging high court rulings in New York and Illinois over ‘Amazon taxes’ point to a possible U.S. Supreme Court case to settle questions about the legality of states taxing online retail sales, lawyers said on Monday.
