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• Court dismisses appeal in $1 billion divorce of oil executive Hamm
• Baltimore violence evokes 1968 riots after MLK assassination
• Obama nominates Coast Guard vice admiral to head TSA
• Citadel investigation finds 19 cases of hazing among cadets
• Baltimore riot shows 'crisis' in community policing: Obama
• Iran diverts Marshall Islands cargo ship in Strait of Hormuz
• Judge sets ex-NY Assembly Speaker Silver's corruption trial for Nov. 2
• Gay marriage: Where the 2016 candidates stand
• Supreme Court to hear historic same-sex marriage arguments
• Supreme Court poised to hear landmark gay marriage case
• Boston bomber's lawyers to probe Tsarnaev's troubled history
• Helicopters ferry injured from Nepal villages near epicenter
• Riots in Baltimore raise questions about police response
• Tyson Foods plans to cut human antibiotics in U.S. chicken flocks by 2017
• Nevada's Attorney General charges Bitcoin-fueled poker website -newspaper
• Sen. Lindsey Graham: Send U.S. troops to topple Assad
• Nurses union plans short strikes in California and Illinois
• New bird flu cases probable in Iowa, millions of birds affected
• Baltimore erupts in riots after funeral of man who died in police custody
• World 'closer than ever' to Iran nuclear deal, Kerry says
• Maryland governor declares state of emergency over Baltimore violence
• Clashes after funeral of Baltimore man who died in custody

Court dismisses appeal in $1 billion divorce of oil executive Hamm Posted: 28 Apr 2015 01:27 PM PDT (Reuters) - Sue Ann Arnall, the ex-wife of Oklahoma oil executive Harold Hamm, lost an appeal of the couple's divorce case because she had accepted an award of nearly $1 billion, the state Supreme Court said on Tuesday. In a 7-2 decision, the court ruled in favor of a motion filed in January by Hamm, chief executive officer of oil company Continental Resources Inc, to dismiss Arnall's appeal. In its ruling, the Oklahoma Supreme Court allowed his appeal to proceed despite dismissing Arnall's. Craig Box, a lawyer for Hamm, said he had not read the opinion yet. Last November, an Oklahoma district court ordered Hamm to pay his ex-wife about $1 billion in cash and assets when the couple divorced after a 26-year marriage.

Baltimore violence evokes 1968 riots after MLK assassination Posted: 28 Apr 2015 12:54 PM PDT National Guard troops have been dispatched to quell the violence in the streets of Baltimore for the first time since the 1968 riots after the death of Martin Luther King Jr.

Obama nominates Coast Guard vice admiral to head TSA Posted: 28 Apr 2015 12:22 PM PDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Tuesday said he would nominate Coast Guard Vice Admiral Peter Neffenger to be administrator of the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), the agency created to tighten travel security following the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the United States. Neffenger's 30-year career with the Coast Guard includes coordinating security at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, California, and the clean-up effort after the 2010 BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. ...

Citadel investigation finds 19 cases of hazing among cadets Posted: 28 Apr 2015 12:06 PM PDT (Reuters) - Nineteen hazing cases have been confirmed out of 85 allegations of misconduct reported this year at The Citadel military college in South Carolina, according to findings released by the school on Tuesday. The investigation began in February after the school's commandant of cadets ordered all freshmen to report any possible hazing incidents they had experienced or witnessed.

Baltimore riot shows 'crisis' in community policing: Obama Posted: 28 Apr 2015 11:00 AM PDT President Obama condemned rioting in Baltimore, saying there was "no excuse" for the violence, but acknowledged a "slow-rolling crisis" in community policing, especially in treatment of African Americans. "We have seen too many instances of what appears to be police officers interacting with individuals -- primarily African American, often poor -- in ways that raise troubling questions," Obama told reporters at the White House. "I think there are police departments that have to do some soul-searching. Obama was reacting to the violence that erupted in Baltimore after the funeral of Freddie Gray, a 25-year-old African American man who died after suffering a spine injury while in police custody.

Iran diverts Marshall Islands cargo ship in Strait of Hormuz Posted: 28 Apr 2015 10:12 AM PDT Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps ships intercepted a Marshall Islands-flagged commercial cargo vessel in the Strait of Hormuz on Tuesday, forcing it "further into Iranian waters," the Pentagon said. Multiple U.S. government sources said there were no Americans aboard the Maersk Tigris.

Judge sets ex-NY Assembly Speaker Silver's corruption trial for Nov. 2 Posted: 28 Apr 2015 09:55 AM PDT By Tom Brown NEW YORK (Reuters) - Embattled former New York Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, accused by prosecutors of taking millions of dollars in bribes and kickbacks, will go to trial on Nov. 2 on a sweeping series of corruption charges. A federal judge in Manhattan set the trial date on Tuesday during a hearing in which Silver's lawyers said he pleaded not guilty to all charges in a revised indictment unveiled last week. After the hearing, one of Silver's lawyers, Steven Molo, accused the government of "withholding" evidence that could help his client, who was one of the most powerful politicians in New York until he was accused of taking bribes in January. The new indictment issued on Thursday by a Manhattan federal grand jury added four new counts to three earlier ones facing the Democratic politician.

Gay marriage: Where the 2016 candidates stand Posted: 28 Apr 2015 08:14 AM PDT

Supreme Court to hear historic same-sex marriage arguments Posted: 28 Apr 2015 06:37 AM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is set to hear historic arguments in cases that could make same-sex marriage the law of the land.

Supreme Court poised to hear landmark gay marriage case Posted: 28 Apr 2015 06:05 AM PDT By Lawrence Hurley WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The nine justices of the Supreme Court were set on Tuesday to hear arguments on whether the Constitution provides same-sex couples the right to marry, taking up a contentious social issue in what promises to be the year's most anticipated ruling. Gay marriage advocates held up signs with slogans including "Love for all" and "America is ready for freedom to marry." A small, vocal group of people against legalizing gay marriage held signs including one calling gay sex sinful and another stating, "Satan rules over all, the children of pride." The decision, due by the end of June, will determine whether gay marriage will be legal nationwide. The arguments center on gay marriage bans in Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio and Tennessee, four of the 13 states that currently prohibit it. All eyes will be on conservative Justice Anthony Kennedy, who may cast the deciding fifth vote on a court closely divided on gay rights.

Boston bomber's lawyers to probe Tsarnaev's troubled history Posted: 28 Apr 2015 04:28 AM PDT Lawyers for convicted Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev on Tuesday are set to probe his troubled family history as they make their plea for a jury to sentence him to life in prison rather than death. The 21-year-old ethnic Chechen was convicted earlier this month of killing three people and injuring 264 in the April 15, 2013, bombing, as well as shooting dead a police officer three days later alongside his older brother, Tamerlan Tsarnaev. Defense attorneys opened their case on Monday by arguing that 26-year-old Tamerlan, who died following a gunfight with police hours after the police officer's shooting, was the driving force behind the attack and that his younger brother had been raised to follow his lead. During the first day of defense witness testimony, the jury heard from people who had seen Tamerlan's outbursts at a mosque near his Cambridge, Massachusetts, home and from his mother-in-law, who described his growing obsession with religion.

Helicopters ferry injured from Nepal villages near epicenter Posted: 28 Apr 2015 02:32 AM PDT GORKHA, Nepal (AP) — Helicopters crisscrossed the skies above the high mountains of Gorkha district on Tuesday near the epicenter of the weekend earthquake in Nepal, ferrying the injured to clinics, and taking emergency supplies back to remote villages devastated by the disaster that killed more than 4,400 people across the region.

Riots in Baltimore raise questions about police response Posted: 28 Apr 2015 01:44 AM PDT Violence spreads across the city after the funeral of a black man who died in police custody.

Tyson Foods plans to cut human antibiotics in U.S. chicken flocks by 2017 Posted: 28 Apr 2015 01:11 AM PDT By P.J. Huffstutter CHICAGO (Reuters) - Tyson Foods Inc, the largest U.S. poultry producer, plans to eliminate the use of human antibiotics in its chicken flocks by September 2017 - one of the most aggressive timelines yet set by an American poultry company. The move marks the latest push by the livestock and food industries to reduce the use of antibiotics crucial to human health in meat production. Authorities are concerned that the routine feeding of antibiotics to animals could spur the creation of antibiotic resistant superbugs in humans, creating a health hazard. Tyson's move, announced on Tuesday morning, aims to help the company meet a deadline recently outlined by McDonald's Corp. to have its U.S. restaurants gradually stop buying chicken raised with human antibiotics over the next two years.

Nevada's Attorney General charges Bitcoin-fueled poker website -newspaper Posted: 27 Apr 2015 11:44 PM PDT (Reuters) - Nevada's Attorney General has charged the operator of an online poker website that accepted Bitcoin for running it without a license, the Las Vegas Review-Journal newspaper reported on Monday. Bryan Micon's Seals with Clubs poker site was shut down in February, the newspaper reported, and an arrest warrant filed on Monday in Las Vegas Justice Court charged Micon with operating an unlicensed interactive gaming system. The newspaper said Attorney General Adam Laxalt had set a Tuesday news conference to announce details of the case.

Sen. Lindsey Graham: Send U.S. troops to topple Assad Posted: 27 Apr 2015 06:21 PM PDT

Nurses union plans short strikes in California and Illinois Posted: 27 Apr 2015 06:04 PM PDT A union representing nurses in California and Illinois said on Monday 6,400 members planned to walk off their jobs later this week for a series of one- and two-day strikes amid contract negotiations. Issues in contention vary from location to location, but include salary, health benefits and nurse-to-patient staffing ratios, said Chuck Idelson, spokesman for the California Nurses Association. Unless progress is made in contract negotiations over the next two days, union nurses will walk out on Thursday and Friday at Kaiser Permanente's Los Angeles Medical Center, Idelson said. They also plan to strike for one day on Friday at two hospitals owned by Providence Health and Services, St. Johns Hospital in Santa Monica and Little Company of Mary in the Los Angeles suburb of Torrance.

New bird flu cases probable in Iowa, millions of birds affected Posted: 27 Apr 2015 05:48 PM PDT By P.J. Huffstutter CHICAGO (Reuters) - Initial tests have found five probable new cases of the rapidly spreading avian influenza on commercial poultry sites in Iowa, affecting more than 6 million birds, the state's agriculture department and the U.S. Department of Agriculture said on Monday. In the avian influenza outbreak of 1983 to 1984 in the northeast, which was the largest in U.S. history, about 17 million birds were culled. "This is a big deal," Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Bill Northey said during a conference call on Monday. Or does this mean more birds as we go forward." Iowa state officials have quarantined the five farm sites, Northey said.

Baltimore erupts in riots after funeral of man who died in police custody Posted: 27 Apr 2015 05:33 PM PDT By Ian Simpson BALTIMORE (Reuters) - Hundreds of rioters looted businesses and set buildings on fire in Baltimore on Monday in widespread violence that injured at least 15 police officers following the funeral of a 25-year-old black man who died after he was injured in police custody. The disturbances broke out just a few blocks from the funeral of Freddie Gray and then spread through parts of Baltimore in the most violent U.S. demonstrations since looting in Ferguson, Missouri, last year. Maryland Governor Larry Hogan declared a state of emergency and activated the National Guard as firefighters battled blazes set by looters. Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake called the rioters "thugs" and instituted a citywide curfew for all adults and minors beginning Tuesday night.

World 'closer than ever' to Iran nuclear deal, Kerry says Posted: 27 Apr 2015 05:16 PM PDT UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The world is "closer than ever" to reaching a comprehensive nuclear deal with Iran but the work is far from over, with key issues unresolved, Secretary of State John Kerry on Monday told a global gathering on nuclear disarmament, where he and Iran's foreign minister met on the sidelines.

Maryland governor declares state of emergency over Baltimore violence Posted: 27 Apr 2015 04:45 PM PDT Baltimore (AFP) - The governor of the US state of Maryland declared a state of emergency in Baltimore on Monday and activated National Guard troops after rioting erupted in the city.

Clashes after funeral of Baltimore man who died in custody Posted: 27 Apr 2015 01:47 PM PDT Street clashes erupted on Monday in the US city of Baltimore after the funeral of a black man who died in custody, as protesters pelted police with stones and bottles. Several of our officers have been injured," Baltimore Police said on Twitter. Trouble broke out after the funeral of Freddie Gray, a 25-year-old black man who died of severe spinal injuries on April 19, a week after he was arrested and detained in Baltimore, north of Washington. State troopers arrived in armored vans to back up the Baltimore police department, and classes at a local university were suspended amid rumors of more serious violence to come.

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