Farmers group pushes against AG mergers
WASHINGTON, DC (KELO-AM) Some 250 members of the National Farmers Union from South Dakota and other states, were in Washington Monday to fight more planned mergers by big AG suppliers."We are way...
View ArticleFour U.S. lawmakers urge safety agency to address vehicle hacking
By David ShepardsonWASHINGTON (Reuters) - Four Republican members of Congress on Monday urged U.S. auto safety regulators to convene an industry-wide effort to prevent possible attacks on computer...
View ArticleWest Virginia man avoids prison in hoax to blow up Statue of Liberty
By Nate RaymondNEW YORK (Reuters) - A West Virginia man was sentenced on Monday to time served after he pleaded guilty to making a hoax threat to blow up the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor last...
View ArticleUp to $3.5 billion of airport bonds clear Chicago council committee
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Chicago would sell up to $3.5 billion of revenue bonds this year for its O'Hare International Airport under proposals approved on Monday by the city council's finance committee.With...
View ArticleGrand jury to probe possible police cover-up in Chicago teen's death
By Timothy MclaughlinCHICAGO (Reuters) - A grand jury will hear evidence of whether Chicago police officers lied to justify the 2014 shooting death of a black teenager by a white officer, local media...
View ArticleIsraeli charged in New York over alleged kidnapping plot
By Nate RaymondNEW YORK (Reuters) - An Israeli citizen who serves as a divorce mediator within an Orthodox Jewish community in New York has been arrested and charged with conspiring to kidnap a man who...
View ArticleMonday Night Football shines spotlight on national anthem protests
By Lily JamaliSAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - San Francisco 49ers backup quarterback Colin Kaepernick brought his controversial protest in the name of racial equality to a nationally televised Monday Night...
View ArticleJonBenet Ramsey's brother, in TV interview, recalls morning sister slain
By Dan WhitcombLOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The brother of 6-year-old beauty queen JonBenet Ramsey, whose gruesome murder two decades ago remains unsolved, appeared on Monday in his first televised...
View ArticleNorth Carolina to lose college championships over transgender law
(Reuters) - The governing board overseeing U.S. college athletics said on Monday it will move seven championship sporting events out of North Carolina to protest state laws deemed discriminatory to...
View ArticleSupreme Court leaves Ohio voting restrictions in place
By Lawrence HurleyWASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Supreme Court on Tuesday refused to reinstate for the Nov. 8 general election Ohio's "Golden Week", which had allowed voters to register and cast ballots...
View ArticleNew York police seek man who set fire to Muslim woman
By Laila KearneyNEW YORK (Reuters) - New York City investigators on Tuesday searched for a man suspected of setting fire to a traditionally dressed Muslim woman in a Midtown shopping area, police...
View ArticleProtesters slam North Dakota pipeline but company 'committed'
By Rich McKayATLANTA (Reuters) - Holding signs and banners and chanting "Oil Kills," protesters in Atlanta and other U.S. cities on Tuesday shouted support for Native American activists trying to stop...
View ArticleL.A smoke shop up in flames
Firefighters battled a major fire that engulfed a two story building that houses a wholesale distributor of smoking materials in downtown Los Angeles on Monday (September 12) night.The Los Angeles Fire...
View ArticleU.S. bank overseer plans report on marketplace lending this fall
BOSTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Comptroller of the Currency said on Tuesday his agency plans to complete this autumn a framework to regulate marketplace lending, citing concerns that new...
View ArticleMaryland man pleads guilty in boy's fatal beating over birthday cake
(Reuters) - A Maryland man on Tuesday pleaded guilty to handcuffing his 9-year-old nephew before he was fatally beaten for eating birthday cake without permission, a court spokeswoman said.Jacob...
View ArticleTexas woman sues for grease burns after Church's Chicken floor collapse
AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - A Texas woman has sued the company that runs Church's Chicken and three others for $50 million, saying the kitchen floor of the restaurant where she worked collapsed, causing...
View ArticleU.S. probe blames Delta pilot for 2015 New York runway accident
By David ShepardsonWASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. National Transportation Safety Board on Tuesday faulted a Delta Air Lines pilot for a March 2015 incident in which a Boeing MD-88 veered off the...
View ArticleLawsuit accuses Michigan of violating Detroit students' rights
By Alex Dobuzinskis(Reuters) - A lawsuit filed on behalf of seven Detroit students on Tuesday accuses state officials of allowing high rates of illiteracy at several poorly functioning schools in the...
View ArticlePardon for former NSA contractor Snowden seen unlikely
By Mark HosenballWASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. government will not budge on its demand that former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden return to face prosecution for stealing thousands...
View ArticleSEC, city of Miami lay out final arguments in bond case
By Zachary FagensonMIAMI (Reuters) - The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and the city of Miami squared off in Florida federal court on Tuesday, with the regulator accusing city officials of...
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