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• U.S. drone rules remain in the hangar in 2014
• Two dead, more than 100 drivers stranded amid Southern California winter storm
• Beach parties, fireworks: World rings in new year
• New laws OK wine shipments, ban tiger selfies
• Head of Baltimore Ravens security charged with sex offense: report
• Exclusive: CDC to hire lab safety chief after Ebola, bird flu mishaps
• U.S. releases 5 Guantanamo prisoners, sends them to Kazakhstan
• Police kill Pennsylvania man as he tried to run down officers
• U.S. sends five Guantanamo prisoners to Kazakhstan for resettlement
• Penny for her thoughts: Puppy heads home after 2,400-mile U.S. road trip
• Official: 6 bodies recovered from AirAsia crash
• Tensions remain after New York City mayor meets police unions
• Reports: 9 dead from linked homicides in in Canada

U.S. drone rules remain in the hangar in 2014 Posted: 31 Dec 2014 11:51 AM PST By Alwyn Scott and Roberta Rampton NEW YORK (Reuters) - The United States missed a year-end deadline for publishing new rules on remote-control aircraft, delaying an eagerly awaited step toward using drones in everything from farming to package delivery. Businesses have been clamoring for rules to allow commercial drone flights, fearing the United States is falling behind other countries in developing a multibillion-dollar industry. The Federal Aviation Administration turned a draft of the rules - the first major overhaul of the regulations - over to the White House on Oct. ...

Two dead, more than 100 drivers stranded amid Southern California winter storm Posted: 31 Dec 2014 10:46 AM PST (Reuters) - Two people, including a harbor patrolman, died on a wind-beaten Southern California coastal island and emergency crews rescued more than 100 drivers trapped in the snow-caked mountains outside Los Angeles as a fierce winter storm crept over the region, officials said on Wednesday. A harbor patrolman was killed in a boating accident in the City of Avalon on wind-battered Catalina Island, off the southern California coast, the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department said in a statement. Local broadcast footage showed wind-whipped ocean waters pushing two boats up onto the beach. ...

Beach parties, fireworks: World rings in new year Posted: 31 Dec 2014 10:12 AM PST After a turbulent year marred by terror woes, Ebola outbreaks and a horrific series of airline disasters, many could be forgiven for saying good riddance to 2014 and gratefully ringing in a new year.

New laws OK wine shipments, ban tiger selfies Posted: 31 Dec 2014 07:44 AM PST New state laws taking effect Thursday give livestock in California more living room, approve direct-to-consumer wine shipments in Massachusetts and levy the ultimate punishment on wannabe teen drivers in Nevada by denying them licenses if they skip too much school.

Head of Baltimore Ravens security charged with sex offense: report Posted: 31 Dec 2014 01:08 AM PST (Reuters) - The senior director of security for the Baltimore Ravens was charged late on Tuesday with a sex offense, according to the Baltimore Sun newspaper and online court records. Baltimore police issued a summons charging Darren Sanders with a sex offense in the fourth degree stemming from an incident on Dec. 14, according to online court records. The address listed for Sanders in the court record is that of the Ravens' training facility and headquarters in Owings Mills, Maryland. ...

Exclusive: CDC to hire lab safety chief after Ebola, bird flu mishaps Posted: 30 Dec 2014 10:23 PM PST By Julie Steenhuysen CHICAGO (Reuters) - The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention plans to hire a chief of laboratory safety, a new post that has taken on more urgency after a CDC scientist was possibly exposed to Ebola in a laboratory last week. Creating a new high-level safety position was a key recommendation of a months-long internal investigation into the mishandling of anthrax and bird flu in CDC labs this past summer, according to an internal CDC memo obtained by Reuters. ...

U.S. releases 5 Guantanamo prisoners, sends them to Kazakhstan Posted: 30 Dec 2014 09:50 PM PST MIAMI (AP) — Five men who were held for a dozen years without charge at the U.S. Navy base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, have been sent to the Central Asian nation of Kazakhstan for resettlement, the U.S. government announced.

Police kill Pennsylvania man as he tried to run down officers Posted: 30 Dec 2014 09:34 PM PST (Reuters) - Police in Pennsylvania shot and killed a man on Tuesday who tried to use his car to run over officers as they attempted to arrest him on charges of making online terroristic threats against law enforcement, officials said. Police in Upper Darby Township, a suburb of Philadelphia, were trying to serve an arrest warrant on the 52-year-old man when the late afternoon shooting occurred on a well-traveled intersection, a department official said. As officers approached, the suspect put his car in reverse, stepped on the gas, and rammed a police vehicle, a police report said. ...

U.S. sends five Guantanamo prisoners to Kazakhstan for resettlement Posted: 30 Dec 2014 09:02 PM PST WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Three Yemenis and two Tunisians held for more than a decade at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo have been flown to Kazakhstan for resettlement, the Pentagon said on Tuesday, the latest in a flurry of prisoner transfers aimed at closing the facility. The transfer of the five men followed a recent pledge by President Barack Obama for a stepped-up push to shut the internationally condemned detention center where most prisoners have been held without being charged or tried. ...

Penny for her thoughts: Puppy heads home after 2,400-mile U.S. road trip Posted: 30 Dec 2014 08:12 PM PST SEATTLE (Reuters) - A puppy called Penny could be reunited with her worry-stricken U.S. owners by week's end after she went on a nearly 2,400-mile road trip that took her to an Iowa truck stop and a Pennsylvania pet hospital, her family said on Tuesday. The floppy-eared Vizsla has one more stop before returning home to Washington state. She has to travel from Pennsylvania, where she has been in foster care, to the District of Columbia for a free ride home from U.S. carrier Alaska Airlines, her owners said in a message on Saturday on a Facebook page devoted to finding her. ...

Official: 6 bodies recovered from AirAsia crash Posted: 30 Dec 2014 07:23 PM PST PANGKALAN BUN, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesia's Search and Rescue chief says six bodies lost in the AirAsia crash have so far been recovered from the Java Sea, including a woman wearing a flight attendant's uniform.

Tensions remain after New York City mayor meets police unions Posted: 30 Dec 2014 04:44 PM PST By Jonathan Allen and Sebastien Malo NEW YORK (Reuters) - Police union leaders said their grievances with New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio remained unresolved after meeting with him on Tuesday, 10 days after they said he was partly to blame for a gunman's deadly attack on two policemen. The meeting came after a marked drop in arrests across the city last week. One city newspaper said the decline was evidence of a "virtual work stoppage", but city officials were unable to say on Tuesday whether or not a police slowdown was under way. ...

Reports: 9 dead from linked homicides in in Canada Posted: 30 Dec 2014 03:24 PM PST Nine people have been killed in three related incidents in the western Canadian city of Edmonton, Canadian media reported on Tuesday. CBC TV said seven people were killed in a home in the Albertan city while two others were killed in two separate homes. The Edmonton Journal newspaper said some of the victims are believed to be children. Edmonton police said they were investigating "a multiple homicide scene." Police did not state the number of people killed nor whether the incidents were connected. ...

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