Diana Nyad raises $100,000 in 48-hour swim for Sandy victims
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Diana Nyad, the first person to successfully swim from Cuba to Florida without a cage, completed her latest endurance swim on Thursday without having to worry about sharks, jellyfish or the current.
Two ex-Naval Academy football players face trial in sex assault
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Two former U.S. Naval Academy football players accused of sexually assaulting an intoxicated female midshipman will face general courts-martial, the school said on Thursday, in the latest of a spate of sexual misconduct allegatio…
In remote field, North Dakota suffers first big oil spill
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A Tesoro Logistics LP pipeline has spilled more than 20,000 barrels of crude oil into a rural North Dakota field, the biggest leak in the state since it became a major U.S. producer.
All-clear declared at California university after report of gunman
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – A California state university that placed a classroom building on lockdown on Thursday morning reopened the building about an hour later after declaring an all-clear, a campus police spokesman said.
U.S. cable companies home in on security
(Reuters) – Consumers are increasingly turning to an unlikely source for home security – the cable company.
Federal courts likely to stay open despite government shutdown
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Federal courts across the country are likely to remain open and fully staffed if the government shutdown extends into a third week, even if the U.S. judiciary runs out of funding.
Two more pipeline deals as U.S. shale production booms
(Reuters) – Pipeline operators Regency Energy Partners LP and Crestwood Midstream Partners LP announced plans to buy peers to expand their pipe networks as infrastructure companies seek bigger stakes in the U.S. shale oil and gas boom.
Ex-Detroit mayor gets 28 years in prison for corruption
DETROIT (Reuters) – Former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick was sentenced by a federal judge on Thursday to 28 years in prison after he was convicted of public corruption including bribery, extortion and racketeering, which prosecutors said had worsened …
North Carolina inn reopens after challenging government shutdown closure
WINSTON-SALEM, North Carolina (Reuters) – A North Carolina mountain inn on public land has reopened for business after its owner took legal action to protest its closure by the National Park Service last week as part of the partial federal government s…
U.S. levies $118,300 in fines in Texas fertilizer plant blast
DALLAS, Texas (Reuters) – The U.S. government will fine a Texas fertilizer plant $118,300 for 24 health and safety violations in connection with an April explosion that leveled parts of a small town and killed 14 people, according to an OSHA citation a…
