Union ‘encouraged’ in San Francisco transit strike talks
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Negotiators hoping to avert a potentially crippling commuter rail strike in the traffic-clogged San Francisco Bay Area were set to return to the bargaining table on Wednesday to try to reach a deal.
Longshoremen’s strike halts work at Port of Baltimore
(Reuters) – Cargo operations at the Port of Baltimore, one of the largest and busiest ports in the United States, were halted on Wednesday by a longshoremen’s strike after contract negotiations stalled, port officials said.
In U.S. top court race case, John Roberts is chief phrasemaker
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – As U.S. chief justice, John Roberts has sought to rein in laws he insists have gone too far on race. At the Supreme Court on Tuesday, he matched rhetoric to action with a pithiness that underscores his opposition to racial prefer…
Man charged in carjacking attempt of mother of baseball’s Cal Ripken
(Reuters) – A Maryland man is facing charges after police said he tried to carjack baseball Hall of Famer Cal Ripken Jr.’s mother, who thwarted her armed attacker in a bank parking lot by activating her car’s panic alarm from her keychain, police said …
Bomb scare prompts brief evacuation of Miami airport concourse
MIAMI (Reuters) – A passenger terminal at Miami International Airport was evacuated for nearly two hours on Wednesday after a bomb-sniffing dog detected something suspicious, authorities said.
‘I’m not crazy,’ says man who found accused Boston bomber: report
(Reuters) – The owner of the boat where the accused Boston Marathon bomber was found hiding told the Boston Globe that he is “not crazy” and never would have searched had he thought the accused bomber was hiding there.
Man arrested over dry ice blast at Los Angeles airport
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – A 28-year-old man was arrested on Tuesday in connection with a dry ice bomb that exploded in an employee restroom at Los Angeles International Airport on Sunday night, police said.
Wanted: Pregnant cows to help South Dakota ranchers recover from storm
(Reuters) – Ranchers in South Dakota who lost large parts of their cattle herds to a winter storm are not asking for blankets or food to help them recover. They want pregnant cows and heifers of breeding age, said a group organizing donations on Tuesda…
Online group Anonymous takes aim at Missouri town over sex assault case
(Reuters) – The online activist group Anonymous said on Tuesday it would launch a “Twitter storm” and stage a rally in a Missouri town to protest the dropping of sex charges against two ex-high school football players in an incident involving a 14-year…
Colorado police initially thought theater gunman was another officer
CENTENNIAL, Colo. (Reuters) – Accused Colorado theater gunman James Holmes was clad in body armor when he shot dead 12 moviegoers, leading responding police to mistake him for a fellow officer, two policemen said at a pretrial hearing on Tuesday.
