Uber, Lyft spend big, lose big in Texas vote on driver fingerprinting
By Jon HerskovitzAUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - On-demand ride companies Uber and Lyft suffered an embarrassing defeat in a Saturday election in Austin as voters backed a measure requiring fingerprint...
View ArticlePenn State president 'appalled' by media reports on Paterno
(Reuters) - The president of Penn State said on Sunday he was appalled by the media coverage surrounding allegations the university's late head football coach Joe Paterno knew about child sex abuse by...
View ArticleCalifornia Muslim student wrongly identified as 'Isis' in yearbook
(Reuters) - A California student was embarrassed and distressed after a picture of her wearing an Islamic head scarf, or hijab, appeared in her high school yearbook with the false name "Isis Phillips,"...
View ArticleFlorida police arrest man in crash that killed martial arts fighter
(Reuters) - A man driving on a suspended license with a history of serious traffic offenses has been arrested in last week's hit-and-run pedestrian crash in Florida that killed mixed martial arts...
View ArticleMan charged in crash that killed sister of retired Supreme Court justice
(Reuters) - An Arizona man has been charged with manslaughter and driving under the influence after a collision that killed Ann Day, a former state senator and sister of retired U.S. Supreme Court...
View ArticleNew York orders nail salons to pay $2 million in unpaid wages, damages
NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York has ordered 143 nail salons to pay cheated employees $2 million in outstanding wages and damages as the result of a crackdown on an industry that relies heavily on an...
View ArticleNorth Carolina officials sue Justice Department over transgender 'bathroom law'
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. | BY COLLEEN JENKINS AND JULIA HARTE (REUTERS)North Carolina officials sued the U.S. Justice Department on Monday to defend a law that restricts use of public restrooms,escalating a...
View ArticleHarmless gas released in New York subway for security test
By Gina CherelusNEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. authorities on Monday sent a harmless gas wafting through the New York subway to study how to deal with a toxic accident or attack in a test that both...
View ArticleUber drivers, if employees, owed $730 million more: U.S. court papers
By Dan Levine and Heather SomervilleSAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Drivers who worked for ride-hailing service Uber [UBER.UL] in California and Massachusetts over the past seven years would have been...
View ArticleArkansas judge accused of trading sentence reductions for sex resigns
By Steve BarnesLITTLE ROCK, Ark. (Reuters) - An Arkansas judge accused by a state panel of trading sentence reductions for sex with young defendants has resigned, legal documents released on Monday...
View ArticleCalifornia to lift severe mandatory water conservation rules
By Sharon BernsteinSACRAMENTO, Calif. (Reuters) - California on Monday prepared to lift severe mandatory water conservation orders imposed at the height of the state's multi-year drought, after a wet...
View ArticleTriumph says it has plans to keep operating if machinists strike
By Alwyn ScottSEATTLE (Reuters) - Triumph Group has contingency plans in case machinists strike at one of its aerospace factories that supplies parts to Boeing and other aircraft makers, the company...
View ArticleBipartisan pitch for nonpartisan elections in South Dakota
Sioux Falls, SD (KELO-AM) Two Republican state lawmakers from Nebraska are helping South Dakota Democrat Rick Weiland pitch Amendment V to South Dakota voters.Amendment V would make state elections...
View ArticleThree Delaware teenagers charged in fatal school beating of classmate
(Reuters) - Three high school girls in Delaware are facing criminal charges over the fatal beating of a classmate inside a school bathroom last month, authorities said on Monday.Amy Joyner-Francis, a...
View ArticleCalifornia school recalls yearbook that calls Muslim girl 'Isis'
By Alex DobuzinskisLOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A California high school has asked students to return nearly 300 yearbooks that wrongly identified a Muslim teenager wearing a traditional headscarf as...
View ArticleFlorida man sentenced for threats against mosques
(Reuters) - A Florida man was sentenced to one year and one day in prison for threatening to bomb two mosques and shoot their congregants, a federal hate crime, shortly after November's deadly attacks...
View ArticleLarge tornado hits south of Oklahoma City, two dead
OKLAHOMA CITY (Reuters) - A large and violent tornado hit an area south of Oklahoma City on Monday, causing at least two deaths and reducing at least three homes to splinters, authorities said.The...
View ArticleEx-Minnesota college professor fined $500,000 for smuggling ivory
(Reuters) - A former Minnesota philosophy professor was fined $500,000 on Monday for smuggling elephant ivory and illegally exporting rhinoceros horns from the United States to China, prosecutors...
View ArticleNew lawsuit alleges paid informants, pricey escort at Redstone mansion
By Lisa RichwineLOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Even as a Los Angeles judge dismissed one case brought by a former girlfriend of media mogul Sumner Redstone, she filed a new lawsuit that threatens to keep...
View ArticleCalifornia Assembly passes gender-neutral restroom bill
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (Reuters) - A bill requiring all single-occupancy public restrooms to be open to anyone regardless of gender or gender identity passed the California Assembly on Monday, and will...
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