| Ted Cruz’s Texas two-step: Hired gun for Google Posted: 06 Mar 2015 02:35 AM PST  Facing an investigation in 2010, the Web behemoth turned to an unlikely ally for help.
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| Battling America’s other PTSD crisis Posted: 06 Mar 2015 02:28 AM PST  The fight that started Keith Davis on a path to a new life began when he was buying marijuana. It was early afternoon on Aug. 8. As he tells it, he was in at his usual hangout in North Central Philadelphia, in front of an abandoned church at 18th and Ridge. He was taking too long mulling over his purchase, and another man got impatient and told him to go buy his stuff somewhere else.
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| Harrison Ford's love of flight marked by mishaps, service Posted: 06 Mar 2015 10:37 AM PST  LOS ANGELES (AP) — The doctor who came to Harrison Ford's aid immediately after seeing his plane crash-land on a Los Angeles golf course says he was stunned to discover the actor at the controls.
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| Ferguson fires three, hopes for settlement with Justice Department Posted: 06 Mar 2015 10:22 AM PST  Ferguson, Missouri, has fired three city employees and is pursuing a range of other reforms in an effort to negotiate a settlement with the U.S. Justice Department after a federal investigation accused the city of illegal practices targeting African-Americans, the mayor said on Friday. Three employees working in the police department and municipal court system were terminated due to evidence of "egregious racial bias," documented in emails and detailed in the Justice Department report released on Wednesday, said Mayor James Knowles. The firings come as the St. Louis suburb of 21,000, which has a mostly black population but a mostly white police force and city leadership, reels from the charges leveled by the Justice Department. The investigation started after a white Ferguson police officer shot and killed an unarmed black teenager on Aug. 9, triggering nationwide protests and illuminating long-held complaints in Ferguson and elsewhere about police treatment of minorities.
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| Train carrying liquefied propane derails in Vermont, no danger posed: report Posted: 06 Mar 2015 08:10 AM PST (Reuters) - A train carrying 15 tanker cars of liquefied propane derailed in Essex junction, Vermont, late on Thursday, but no flammable gas was leaked and there was no danger to the public, according to a local news website on Friday. All safety systems also operated as designed, burlingtonfreepress.com reported, citing New England Railroad spokesman Mike Williams. |
| Wisconsin Assembly OKs right-to-work bill, governor supports Posted: 06 Mar 2015 08:05 AM PST  By Brendan O'Brien MADISON, Wis. (Reuters) - Weary Wisconsin lawmakers on Friday approved a bill that stops private sector workers from being required to join a union or pay dues as a condition of employment and sent it to Republican Governor Scott Walker, who is expected to sign it on Monday. The Republican-led state Assembly voted 62-35 on party lines to make Wisconsin the 25th "right-to-work" state, a measure supported by Walker, an early favorite in the battle for the Republican nomination in the 2016 presidential election. The final vote came after 24 hours of debate in the Assembly and two weeks after state Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald announced plans to take up a "right-to-work" bill. It has everything to do with busting," said Representative Andy Jorgensen, a Democrat.
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| Ky. interstates packed with stranded motorists after storm Posted: 05 Mar 2015 05:53 PM PST  Thousands of stranded motorists endured agonizingly long waits Thursday lasting nearly 24 hours for some as a winter storm walloped Kentucky with up to 2 feet of snow and frustrated travelers dealt with gas tanks and stomachs close to empty.
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| McConnell backs off clash with Democrats on Iran Posted: 05 Mar 2015 12:21 PM PST  Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Thursday decided not to press ahead with a fast-tracked vote on Iran legislation in the face of Democratic opposition
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| Father tells jury about boy's death at Boston Marathon Posted: 05 Mar 2015 04:30 PM PST  With Dzhokhar Tsarnaev seated at the defense table no more than 15 feet away Thursday, the father of an 8-year-old boy killed in the Boston Marathon bombing described the moment when he looked down at his son's pale, torn body and realized he wouldn't make it.
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| Cardinal Egan, retired N.Y. archbishop, dies at age 82 Posted: 05 Mar 2015 12:41 PM PST  Roman Catholic Cardinal Edward Egan, the former archbishop of New York, has died. He was 82.
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| Slain Missouri 18-year-old's parents plan wrongful death suit Posted: 05 Mar 2015 10:16 AM PST  Michael Brown's parents will file a wrongful death civil lawsuit against Ferguson, Missouri and the white police officer who shot dead the unarmed 18-year-old black man last August in the St. Louis suburb, a family attorney said on Thursday. He did not have to kill Michael Brown," attorney Daryl Parks said of Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson. The announcement came a day after the U.S. Justice Department cleared Wilson of any civil rights violations in the shooting but said it found racial bias and a pattern of discriminatory and illegal actions against African-Americans by the Ferguson Police Department.
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