| Exclusive: Missouri police plan for possible riots if Brown cop not charged Posted: 07 Oct 2014 11:21 AM PDT  By Tim Reid FERGUSON MISSOURI (Reuters) - Missouri authorities are drawing up contingency plans and seeking intelligence from U.S. police departments on out-of-state agitators, fearing that fresh riots could erupt if a grand jury does not indict a white officer for killing a black teen. The plans are being thrashed out in meetings being held two to three times a week, according to people who have attended them. The FBI said it was also involved in the discussions. ...
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| Three siblings dead in murder-suicide in New Orleans: police Posted: 07 Oct 2014 11:04 AM PDT NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - A 55-year-old man shot dead his older brother and sister before turning the gun on himself early on Tuesday in a New Orleans residence, police said. Police did not indicate a motive in the shooting in the fashionable Bywater neighborhood, to which they responded at about 2:20 a.m. local time. The Orleans Parish Coroner identified the shooter as Christopher Conrad and his victims as Terry Conrad Fedoroff, 60, and Billy Conrad, 58, the Times-Picayune newspaper reported. ... |
| Update on Chinese quake Posted: 07 Oct 2014 09:58 AM PDT  BEIJING (Reuters) - An earthquake with a magnitude of 6.4 struck in China's southwestern province of Yunnan on Tuesday, though initial reports from state media said there were only limited casualties in the sparsely populated, mountainous region. The United States Geological Survey said the quake's epicenter was 163 km (100 miles) north-northwest of Yunjinghong and 10 km deep. The official Xinhua news agency said shaking could be felt in the provincial capital of Yunnan, Kunming, as well as several other major cities in the province. ...
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| More U.S. states push for gay unions in wake of high court decision Posted: 07 Oct 2014 09:43 AM PDT  By David Adams and Zachary Fagenson MIAMI (Reuters) - Legal pressure mounted across the United States on Tuesday for further expansion of marriage rights after the Supreme Court declined to uphold bans in five states, but left intact 20 others. The 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago issued orders on Tuesday that mean earlier rulings striking down bans in Wisconsin and Indiana can now go into effect. Marriage equality advocates in Florida also planned to ask a federal judge on Tuesday to lift a stay and allow same-sex unions to go ahead in Florida. ...
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| Why you should never impersonate a cop Posted: 07 Oct 2014 09:10 AM PDT  MIDLAND, Texas (AP) — A 41-year-old Midland, Texas, man got a surprise when he tried to impersonate a police officer and berate a fellow driver. The driver he chastised was a police detective.
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| Obscure government agencies get military Humvees, guns Posted: 07 Oct 2014 08:53 AM PDT  BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Doug Wortham used a Defense Department giveaway program for law enforcement to stock his office with an assault rifle, a handgun and a Humvee — even though the people in his custody are in no condition to put up a fight.
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| Wal-Mart to stop healthcare benefits for some part-time workers Posted: 07 Oct 2014 08:04 AM PDT  (Reuters) - Wal-Mart Stores Inc said it would no longer provide health benefits to some part-time workers in the United States due to ballooning healthcare costs. The company said on Monday it would stop health benefits for part-time associates who work less than 30 hours. The move is expected to impact about 2 percent of the company's workforce, the company said in a blog post. Wal-Mart cut its full-year profit forecast in August, citing higher employee benefit costs, among other things. The company said then that it expected to spend $500 million on U.S. ...
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| Despite some anxiety, retailers foresee holiday uptick coming Posted: 07 Oct 2014 07:32 AM PDT  Americans are expected to spend at the highest rate in three years during what's traditionally the busiest shopping season of the year, according to the nation's largest retail industry trade group. But ...
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| Panetta: Obama’s ‘red line’ on Syria damaged U.S. credibility Posted: 07 Oct 2014 06:46 AM PDT  President Barack Obama damaged U.S. credibility by drawing a "red line" against Syria's use of chemical weapons and then failing to back up the warning with military force, former Defense Secretary Leon Panetta told Yahoo News in an interview. "It was damaging," Panetta, who also served Obama as CIA director, told Yahoo Global News Anchor Katie Couric.
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| Four hospitalized in Spain after first Ebola transmission outside Africa Posted: 07 Oct 2014 06:14 AM PDT  By Inmaculada Sanz and Sarah Morris MADRID (Reuters) - Four people have been hospitalized in Spain to try to stem the spread of Ebola after a Spanish nurse became the first person in the world known to have contracted the virus outside of Africa, health authorities said on Tuesday. The nurse, who tested positive for the virus on Monday, her husband, who is showing no symptoms of the disease, and two other people are being closely monitored in hospital, health officials told a news conference in Madrid. One of those hospitalized is a health worker who has diarrhea but no fever. ...
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| Agents due back on stand in trial of accused Boston bomber's friend Posted: 07 Oct 2014 05:25 AM PDT BOSTON (Reuters) - Law enforcement agents who interviewed a friend of the accused Boston Marathon bomber in the days after the deadly blasts are due to testify on Tuesday as the friend stands trial on charges of lying to investigators. U.S. prosecutors contend that the friend, 21-year-old Robel Phillipos of Cambridge, Massachusetts, lied about accompanying two other men to the suspect's college dorm room three days after the attack that killed three people and wounded more than 260 and removing a backpack containing fireworks. ... |
| India, Pakistan clash at Kashmir border Posted: 07 Oct 2014 05:10 AM PDT  Troops fired bullets and mortar shells across the border between Kashmir and Pakistan.
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| Mom charged after daughter brings heroin to daycare Posted: 07 Oct 2014 04:53 AM PDT  (Reuters) - A Delaware mother was arrested on Monday after her four-year-old daughter unknowingly brought roughly 250 packets of heroin to her daycare, and passed them out to classmates thinking they were candy, police said. Ashley Tull, 30, of Selbyville was charged with drug possession and endangering the welfare of a child after her daughter brought the drugs to the Hickory Tree Child Care Center on Monday morning, Delaware State Police said in a statement. ...
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| Ebola lawsuits would face high hurdles in Texas Posted: 07 Oct 2014 04:19 AM PDT  By Jessica Dye NEW YORK (Reuters) - Potential suits against the Dallas, Texas hospital that sent home a patient later diagnosed with Ebola face long odds in the face of state medical malpractice laws. Texas tort-reform measures have made it one of the hardest places in the United States to sue over medical errors, especially those that occurred in the emergency room, according to plaintiffs' lawyers and legal experts. ...
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| 2 Japanese, 1 American win Nobel Prize in physics Posted: 07 Oct 2014 03:33 AM PDT  STOCKHOLM (AP) — Isamu Akasaki and Hiroshi Amano of Japan and U.S. scientist Shuji Nakamura won the Nobel Prize in physics on Tuesday for the invention of blue light-emitting diodes — a new energy efficient and environment-friendly light source.
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| Why GOP presidential hopefuls are finally talking about drugs Posted: 07 Oct 2014 02:14 AM PDT  They aren't calling for marijuana legalization, but many of the possible presidential candidates are seeking new strategies to combat drug addiction.
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| Airstrikes hit IS near embattled Syria town Posted: 07 Oct 2014 01:26 AM PDT  MURSITPINAR, Turkey (AP) — Warplanes believed to have been sent by the U.S.-led coalition struck positions held by Islamic State militants near a Syrian border that beleaguered Kurdish forces have been struggling to defend.
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| Mississippi family gunfight leaves two dead, two wounded Posted: 06 Oct 2014 09:10 PM PDT By David Minsky (Reuters) - Two family members killed each other and wounded two relatives in a gunfight following a domestic altercation in rural northeast Mississippi last week, a law enforcement official said on Monday. Mickey Sudduth and his father-in-law Robert Mize both fatally shot each other outside Mize's home near Aberdeen after a dispute involving Sudduth's estranged wife Jennifer on Friday afternoon, Monroe County Sheriff Cecil Cantrell said. ... |
| Supreme Court dodges gay marriage, allowing weddings in five more states Posted: 06 Oct 2014 07:34 PM PDT  By Lawrence Hurley WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Monday to decide once and for all whether states can ban gay marriage, a surprising move that will allow gay men and women to get married in five additional states, with more likely to follow quickly. On the first day of its new term, the high court without comment rejected appeals in cases involving five states - Virginia, Oklahoma, Utah, Wisconsin and Indiana - that had prohibited gay marriage, leaving intact lower-court rulings striking down those bans. ...
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| U.S. helicopters join air war in Iraq against IS group Posted: 06 Oct 2014 06:14 PM PDT  Washington (AFP) - The US military has started flying attack helicopters against Islamic State militants in Iraq for the first time, officials said Monday, marking an escalation in the air war that puts American troops at higher risk.
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| Mexican army disarms police in missing-students city Posted: 06 Oct 2014 04:37 PM PDT  Mexico City (AFP) - Mexico's federal forces took over security Monday in a southern city where 43 students disappeared and disarmed the entire municipal police force after gang-linked officers shot at the aspiring teachers.
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| Obama says U.S. working on new ways to screen passengers for Ebola Posted: 06 Oct 2014 01:48 PM PDT  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama said on Monday his administration was working on additional protocols for screening airplane passengers to identify people who might have Ebola and would step up efforts to make medical professionals aware of what to do if they encounter a case. Obama told reporters he also planned to step up pressure on large countries, which he did not identify by name, to contribute aid to West African nations struggling to contain the worst outbreak of Ebola on record. (Reporting by Roberta Rampton and Steve Holland; Editing by Peter Cooney)
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