| Texas records raise question about warning before train crash Nov 30th 2012, 03:52 SAN ANGELO, Texas (Reuters) - The Texas railroad crossing where four U.S. military veterans were killed this month during a parade was designed to give 30 seconds warning but gave only 20, according to state records and federal investigators. Sixteen other people were injured when a train slammed into a parade float in Midland, Texas, on November 15 at the start of a weekend of festivities to honor veterans wounded in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. ... |  | Eccentric owner of Cadillac Ranch in Texas facing child sex charges Nov 30th 2012, 02:49  SAN ANTONIO (Reuters) - Eccentric Texas oil millionaire Stanley Marsh 3 has been indicted on child molestation charges in Amarillo and was released after posting a bond, according to court records. Marsh, 74, who considers the Roman numerals "III" to be pretentious and prefers the suffix "3," is best known as the owner of the iconic Cadillac Ranch, a work of public art featuring 10 brightly painted Cadillac cars buried nose-first in the ground along Interstate 40 in the Texas Panhandle. ...
| | Rights groups challenge Arizona's denial of benefits to immigrants Nov 30th 2012, 02:36 PHOENIX (Reuters) - Civil rights groups filed suit on Thursday to challenge an order by Arizona Republican Governor Jan Brewer blocking illegal immigrants from getting driver's licenses despite receiving temporary legal status under an Obama administration program. The lawsuit, filed on behalf of five immigrants who qualify for deferred deportation status under a new policy by President Barack Obama's administration, says that the governor's executive order issued this summer was unconstitutional and should be blocked. ... | | California bill seeks lower threshold for passing school tax measures Nov 30th 2012, 02:31 SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A top California Democrat aims to ease requirements for voters to approve local taxes for schools, a potential first test of the state's tax-limiting Proposition 13 now that Democrats hold a supermajority in the Legislature State Senator Mark Leno said on Thursday he would introduce a bill on Monday for a constitutional amendment that would reduce the threshold for approving school "parcel taxes" to 55 percent from two-thirds of voters set by Proposition 13, the landmark 1978 voter-approved measure best known for limiting property taxes. ... | | Environmental activist long wanted in U.S. arson attacks surrenders Nov 30th 2012, 01:58 PORTLAND, Oregon (Reuters) - A Canadian environmentalist accused of taking part in a campaign of arson attacks across the U.S. West surrendered on Thursday after a decade on the run to face charges in what authorities call the "largest eco-terrorism case" in U.S. history. Rebecca Jeanette Rubin turned herself in to FBI agents at the Canadian border in Blaine, Washington, the U.S. Department of Justice said in a statement. ... | | Managers delighted their stores sold winning lottery tickets Nov 30th 2012, 01:57  DEARBORN, Mo./FOUNTAIN HILLS, Arizona (Reuters) - Managers of a Missouri gas station and an Arizona food store expressed delight on Thursday that they may have handed tickets to the two prospective multi-millionaire winners of a record $587.5 million Powerball lottery jackpot. The two winning tickets were sold at the gas station and sandwich shop in the tiny farming town of Dearborn, Missouri, about 30 miles north of Kansas City, Missouri, and the food store in Fountain Hills, Arizona, on the outskirts of Phoenix. Dearborn, population 500, reveled in its sudden place in the spotlight. ...
| | Cuomo administration delays lifting NY ban on controversial drilling Nov 30th 2012, 01:37 NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York Governor Andrew Cuomo's administration will delay a decision on whether to overturn a four-year-old ban on a contentious oil and gas drilling process after a state agency received more time to draft proposed regulations on fracking. The New York Department of Environmental Conservation, or DEC, which oversees the state's oil and gas industry, filed a notice with New York's Department of State for a 90-day extension to its original deadline of Thursday. ... | | Eccentric owner of Cadillac Ranch in Texas facing child sex charges Nov 30th 2012, 00:53 SAN ANTONIO (Reuters) - Eccentric Texas oil millionaire Stanley Marsh 3 has been indicted on child molestation charges in Amarillo and was released after posting a bond, according to court records. Marsh, 74, who considers the Roman numerals "III" to be pretentious and prefers the suffix "3," is best known as the owner of the iconic Cadillac Ranch, a work of public art featuring 10 brightly painted Cadillac cars buried nose-first in the ground along Interstate 40 in the Texas Panhandle. ... | |
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