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• Obama vetoes Republican bid to block union election rules
• Co-pilot told flight school of depressive episode in 2009
• New Jersey school evacuated after reports of armed intruder
• Armed man caught after taking hostages at Pennsylvania firehouse
• Police: Prisoner who stole gun, fled hospital found in DC
• Indiana governor wants changes to religious-objections law
• Live: Special report on Indiana religious freedom law
• Florida jogger wearing headphones killed by train
• U.S. top court says private medical providers can't sue states over Medicaid
• Reports: Banned group takes prosecutor hostage in Turkey
• Defense to intensify in trial of accused Boston Marathon bomber
• On a cold Boston morning, remembering Teddy Kennedy
• Mother charged with murdering toddler son in NYC bathroom
• Suspect in massive Los Angeles arson fire seen in video: L.A. Times
• Parents of dead student sue Clemson University, fraternity
• Differences persist on deadline day for Iran nuke talks
• Detroit commission OKs raises for city council, clerk: newspaper
• Mother of Colorado cinema gunman prays son spared death penalty: newspaper
• Theater gunman not a ‘monster,’ Arlene Holmes writes in new book
• Indiana to clarify 'religious freedom' law, Georgia, N.C. bills stall
• Indiana lawmakers try to quiet firestorm surrounding new law
• Exclusive: Pentagon chief sends military wish lists to Congress with reservations

Obama vetoes Republican bid to block union election rules Posted: 31 Mar 2015 10:58 AM PDT U.S. President Barack Obama on Tuesday vetoed a measure by Republicans in Congress that would have blocked a government labor agency's rules designed to speed up the time it takes to unionize workers. The rules would shorten the period between a union filing a petition to represent workers and an election, from the current median of 38 days to as little as 14 days. Employers would be required to share workers' names, addresses, phone numbers and email addresses with unions. The National Labor Relations Board adopted the rules last year and they are set to take effect April 14.

Co-pilot told flight school of depressive episode in 2009 Posted: 31 Mar 2015 10:43 AM PDT Lufthansa says the note was found in emails that Andreas Lubitz sent.

New Jersey school evacuated after reports of armed intruder Posted: 31 Mar 2015 10:10 AM PDT NEW YORK (Reuters) - A New Jersey elementary school was evacuated on Tuesday after reports of an armed intruder on the grounds, law enforcement officials said. Police and SWAT teams converged on Village Elementary School in Holmdel Township, about 40 miles (64 km) south of New York City, just after noon local time and searched for a gunman, said Charles Webster, a spokesman with the Monmouth County Prosecutor's Office. No shots were reported fired and no one was injured, Webster said. (Reporting by Laila Kearney; Editing by Barbara Goldberg and Chizu Nomiyama)

Armed man caught after taking hostages at Pennsylvania firehouse Posted: 31 Mar 2015 09:54 AM PDT (Reuters) - An armed suspect believed to be a former firefighter was apprehended on Tuesday after taking four firefighters hostage inside a suburban Philadelphia firehouse, officials said. Reports of an armed suspect at the LaMott Fire Company in Cheltenham Township, about 13 miles north of Philadelphia, came in to authorities at about 10:40 a.m., said John Corcoran, spokesman for the Montgomery County Department of Public Safety. About an hour later, a suspect was taken into custody, officials said. No one was injured in the incident. ...

Police: Prisoner who stole gun, fled hospital found in DC Posted: 31 Mar 2015 09:38 AM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — Police say a prisoner who escaped custody at a northern Virginia hospital with a guard's gun has been captured in Washington.

Indiana governor wants changes to religious-objections law Posted: 31 Mar 2015 09:04 AM PDT Mike Pence said Tuesday that he wants legislation on his desk by the end of the week to clarify that a new religious-freedom law does not allow discrimination.

Live: Special report on Indiana religious freedom law Posted: 31 Mar 2015 08:33 AM PDT Yahoo's Bianna Golodryga and Olivier Knox analyze Gov. Pence's remarks about the legislation.

Florida jogger wearing headphones killed by train Posted: 31 Mar 2015 08:02 AM PDT By Barbara Liston ORLANDO, Fla. (Reuters) - A Florida jogger wearing headphones was struck and killed by an Amtrak train, apparently unable to hear the conductor sounding the horn, authorities said on Tuesday. Edwardo Salazar, 26, of Frostproof in central Florida, died on Monday afternoon while jogging on the tips of the wood crossbeams outside the track's metal rails, the Polk County Sheriff's Office reported. Salazar's headphones were plugged into his iPod, according to the report. "The headphones likely led to him not hearing the train," said sheriff spokeswoman Carrie Horstman, adding Salazar might not have known that a train's girth is wider than the metal rails.

U.S. top court says private medical providers can't sue states over Medicaid Posted: 31 Mar 2015 07:30 AM PDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled that private medical providers cannot sue a state in order to raise Medicaid reimbursement rates to deal with rising medical costs. The justices, on a 5-4 vote, ruled in favor of the state of Idaho, which says that medical providers have no legal recourse to sue. (Reporting by Lawrence Hurley; Editing by Will Dunham)

Reports: Banned group takes prosecutor hostage in Turkey Posted: 31 Mar 2015 07:13 AM PDT ISTANBUL (AP) — Members of a banned leftist group took a chief prosecutor hostage in his office Tuesday inside a court house in Istanbul, Turkish news agencies said. Police said negotiators were speaking to two militants in attempts to end the standoff.

Defense to intensify in trial of accused Boston Marathon bomber Posted: 31 Mar 2015 04:31 AM PDT Defense of accused Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is expected to intensify on Tuesday with his lawyers' first full day of calling witnesses. They have contended that Tsarnaev's brother, 26-year-old Tamerlan Tsarnaev, was the driving force behind the bombing and that Dzhokhar played a secondary role in it and in the fatal shooting of a police officer three days later. Their argument is intended to reduce Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's relative culpability in the jury's eyes and persuade them to sentence him to life in prison. On Monday, prosecutors wrapped up their case against Tsarnaev with testimony from the medical examiners who autopsied 23-year-old Chinese exchange student Lingzi Lu and 8-year-old Martin Richard.

On a cold Boston morning, remembering Teddy Kennedy Posted: 31 Mar 2015 03:42 AM PDT A host of political luminaries attended the dedication Monday of the Edward M. Kennedy Institute on Columbia Point, right next to the presidential library of Teddy's older brother, President John F. Kennedy.

Mother charged with murdering toddler son in NYC bathroom Posted: 31 Mar 2015 02:39 AM PDT (Reuters) - A mother was charged with murder after she locked herself in the bathroom of a New York City restaurant on Monday with her one-year-old son, who was later pronounced dead, police said. Latisha Fisher, 35, entered the bathroom with her child, Gavriel Ortiz-Fisher, at 5 Boro Burger in Manhattan, the New York Police Department said. After the woman spent a "large quantity of time" locked inside, workers concerned over her well-being unlocked the door key and found her son unresponsive and foaming at the mouth, NYPD Sergeant Brendan Ryan said.

Suspect in massive Los Angeles arson fire seen in video: L.A. Times Posted: 31 Mar 2015 02:07 AM PDT (Reuters) - A suspect who sparked a massive arson fire last year that gutted a multi-story apartment complex under construction in Los Angeles was captured on surveillance tape reviewed by authorities, the Los Angeles Times reported on Monday. The video showed the suspect parking a car on the 110 Freeway before walking into the building with "cans of fuel," the paper said, based on a recording of a community meeting last week addressed by Los Angeles Fire Department Battalion Chief Steve Ruda. Fire department representatives could not be immediately reached for comment.

Parents of dead student sue Clemson University, fraternity Posted: 31 Mar 2015 12:30 AM PDT By Harriet McLeod CHARLESTON, S.C. (Reuters) - The parents of a 19-year-old Clemson University student who died last year after falling from a highway bridge during a pre-dawn fraternity run sued the university, the Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity and three of its members for $50 million on Monday. Tucker Hipps' body was found by police last September beneath a highway bridge over a lake near the Clemson, South Carolina campus when he didn't return from the run with other fraternity pledges. The two civil suits, which seek $25 million each, allege that Hipps died as a result of a confrontation with a fraternity member over breakfast food he was told to bring that morning. Hipps then went over the railing of the bridge into shallow water in Lake Hartwell head first, the lawsuits said, adding that a fraternity member shone a flashlight into the dark water below but took no further action to locate the student.

Differences persist on deadline day for Iran nuke talks Posted: 31 Mar 2015 12:15 AM PDT Diplomats scrambled to reach consensus just hours ahead of a self-imposed deadline.

Detroit commission OKs raises for city council, clerk: newspaper Posted: 30 Mar 2015 10:21 PM PDT Just months after Detroit officially exited the largest municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history, a panel recommended on Monday 2.5 percent raises for city council members and the city clerk starting next fiscal year, the Detroit Free Press said. The Detroit Elected Officials Compensation Commission, which determines whether elected officials can receive raises, voted unanimously on Monday night to support the pay hikes, the newspaper said. The move would bring the salary for the clerk and council members to $78,761 from $76,840 and the council president's to $82,776 from $80,757, the Free Press said. The compensation commission's recommendation will go into effect unless it is rejected by the City Council by a two-thirds vote, according to the Free Press.

Mother of Colorado cinema gunman prays son spared death penalty: newspaper Posted: 30 Mar 2015 09:02 PM PDT By Keith Coffman DENVER (Reuters) - The mother of Colorado cinema gunman James Holmes says in a new book that she prays prosecutors "stop this quest for death" and allow her son to plead guilty and avoid possible execution, a California newspaper reported on Monday. Details of Arlene Holmes' book were disclosed in an interview that she and her husband, Bob, granted to the Del Mar Times, in which the couple maintained that their son is mentally ill and his life should be spared. James Holmes, 27, has pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity to multiple counts of first-degree murder and attempted murder stemming from a shooting rampage at a cinema in suburban Denver in July 2012. Twelve moviegoers were killed and 70 others wounded when Holmes opened fire inside the theater during a midnight viewing of the Batman film "The Dark Knight Rises." Prosecutors said they will seek the death penalty for the southern California native if he is convicted.

Theater gunman not a ‘monster,’ Arlene Holmes writes in new book Posted: 30 Mar 2015 07:46 PM PDT The mother of accused Colorado theater gunman James Holmes says in a new book that she prays for her son's victims daily, even calling out the deceased by name. "The first time that I prayed for them by name and by wound, I was shaking, overcome," Arlene Holmes writes.

Indiana to clarify 'religious freedom' law, Georgia, N.C. bills stall Posted: 30 Mar 2015 07:16 PM PDT Indiana Republicans pledged on Monday to clarify a new "religious freedom" law, while similar proposals stalled in Georgia and North Carolina after businesses and activists said such measures could be used to discriminate against gays. Arkansas lawmakers, however, signaled they would move forward with their own bill, even after Indiana was rebuked by companies and executives including Wal-Mart Stores Inc , Apple Inc CEO Tim Cook, and Eli Lilly and Co . Indiana's law, signed by Governor Mike Pence last week, was perceived as going further than those passed in 19 other states, giving businesses a right to refuse services on religious grounds.

Indiana lawmakers try to quiet firestorm surrounding new law Posted: 30 Mar 2015 04:40 PM PDT INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Gov. Mike Pence called off public appearances Monday and sports officials planned an "Indy Welcomes All" campaign ahead of this weekend's NCAA Final Four in Indianapolis as lawmakers scrambled to quiet the firestorm over a new law that has much of the country portraying Indiana as a state of intolerance.

Exclusive: Pentagon chief sends military wish lists to Congress with reservations Posted: 30 Mar 2015 03:37 PM PDT By Andrea Shalal WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter on Monday sent the military's annual "wish lists" to U.S. lawmakers, including 12 Boeing Co F/A-18 fighter jets and 14 Lockheed Martin Corp F-35 fighter jets, but said he would not back any of the requests unless Congress passed a larger overall defense budget. Carter told lawmakers he was sending the lists of "unfunded priorities" to Congress as required under a defense policy law of fiscal 2013, but registered his concerns about any moves by Congress to restructure the Pentagon's budget request. The biggest items on the annual lists this year included a dozen Boeing fighter jets requested by the Navy to cover projected shortfall in strike fighters in coming years at a projected cost of $1.15 billion. If approved by Congress, the orders could help Boeing extend production at its St. Louis manufacturing plant, which is currently slated to end in 2017.

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