| Four men charged in California with terrorist plot Nov 20th 2012, 20:10 (Reuters) - Four men with ties to Southern California have been arrested and charged with plotting to kill Americans overseas by joining up with al Qaeda to engage in "violent jihad" or Islamic holy war, the FBI said on Monday. Other charges the men face include plotting to bomb government facilities and conspiracy to kill Americans. Since the September 11 2001 attacks, the U.S. government has stepped up surveillance efforts to catch both domestic and foreign militants, but has repeatedly warned that such groups continue to pose a threat. ... |  | Judge doesn't rule on motion to freeze meningitis firm assets Nov 20th 2012, 19:58  BOSTON (Reuters) - A federal judge in Boston on Tuesday declined to make an immediate ruling on whether to freeze the assets of New England Compounding Center and its owners, which are battling investigations into a deadly U.S. meningitis outbreak. U.S. District Judge Dennis Saylor said he would take the matter under advisement after a two-hour hearing. ...
| | U.S. Airways flight attendants vote to authorize strike Nov 20th 2012, 19:50  (Reuters) - Flight attendants at US Airways Group Inc voted by a 94 percent margin to authorize a strike, ramping up pressure on the carrier to reach a contract agreement, their union said on Tuesday. The workers, represented by the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA, twice this year voted down a proposed contract with US Airways, which is in talks with bankrupt American Airlines parent AMR Corp about a potential merger. The union's negotiating committee said it would take its proposal for better economic terms, backed up by the strike vote authorization, to the U.S. ...
| | "Soccer Mom Madam" sentenced in New York to time served Nov 20th 2012, 19:30  NEW YORK (Reuters) - Manhattan madam Anna Gristina was sentenced in state Supreme Court to time served on Tuesday, bringing a quiet end to a case that had generated lurid headlines in the New York media. The suburban mother of four was arrested in February after a five-year investigation involving wiretaps and charged with one count of promoting prostitution for allegedly operating a high-end brothel out of a Manhattan apartment. ...
| | Texas daycare owner gets 80 years for fire death of toddler Nov 20th 2012, 19:23 HOUSTON (Reuters) - The owner of a Houston daycare center where four toddlers died in a fire that started after she left the children unattended to go shopping was sentenced on Tuesday to 80 years in prison for a felony murder conviction in one of the deaths. Jessica Tata, 24, will not be eligible for parole for 30 years under the sentence imposed by the jury. Convicted for the death of 16-month-old Elias Castillo in the February 2011 fire, she was also fined $10,000. Jurors found Tata guilty on November 13 and could have sentenced her to life in prison. ... | | Florida girl fatally shot on school bus, suspect in custody Nov 20th 2012, 18:52 MIAMI (Reuters) - A 13-year-old girl was fatally shot aboard a private school bus in the Miami area on Tuesday and police said they have taken into custody a male student who is believed to be the shooter. The girl was airlifted to Miami Children's Hospital, where she died, Miami-Dade Police Detective Javier Baez said. "We have a male student who is in custody who appears to be the shooter," he said. Baez said police did not have any possible motives for the shooting. The bus was traveling on a road in the Homestead area of southwest Miami-Dade County when the shooting occurred. ... | | U.S. judge doesn't rule on motion to freeze meningitis firm assets Nov 20th 2012, 18:47  BOSTON (Reuters) - A federal judge in Boston on Tuesday declined to make an immediate ruling on whether to freeze the assets of New England Compounding Center and its owners, which are battling investigations into a deadly U.S. meningitis outbreak. U.S. District Judge Dennis Saylor said he would take the matter under advisement after a two-hour hearing. ...
| | Judge doesn't rule on motion to freeze meningitis firm assets Nov 20th 2012, 18:38  BOSTON (Reuters) - A federal judge in Boston on Tuesday declined to make an immediate ruling on whether to freeze the assets of New England Compounding Center and its owners, which are battling investigations into a deadly U.S. meningitis outbreak. U.S. District Judge Dennis Saylor said he would take the matter under advisement after a two-hour hearing. ...
| | Judge gives Massachusetts time to appeal inmate sex-change order Nov 20th 2012, 18:37 BOSTON (Reuters) - A federal judge suspended an order on Tuesday calling for Massachusetts to pay for a convicted murderer's sex-change operation, in a move that will give the state time to appeal the September ruling. The case revolves around an inmate serving a life term who has legally changed his name to Michelle Kosilek and sued the state's Department of Corrections 12 years ago to force it to provide gender reassignment surgery. Judge Mark Wolf of U.S. ... | | Human trafficking victims freed in U.S. prostitution bust Nov 20th 2012, 18:32 NEW YORK (Reuters) - Authorities on Tuesday broke up a $7 million three-state prostitution and money laundering ring, rescuing two human trafficking victims and arresting more than a dozen people, New York's attorney general said. The crackdown was the result of a 16-month investigation into Somad Enterprises Inc., an advertising agency with offices in New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania that placed classified ads for five escort services, Attorney General Eric Schneiderman and New York City Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said at a joint news conference. ... | | New Yorkers give NJ's Christie highest marks for storm response Nov 20th 2012, 18:13  NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York-area politicians won high marks from the city's residents for their response to superstorm Sandy, but it was New Jersey's Republican Governor Chris Christie who most impressed New Yorkers, a Quinnipiac University poll said on Tuesday. Nearly 90 percent of New York City voters rated Christie's response to the storm, which left large swaths of the region without power and cut off from mass transit and devastated the New Jersey shoreline, as "excellent" or "good." Christie offered strong praise for Obama's storm response in the days after Sandy. ...
| | For hungry New Yorkers, Sandy added to a tough year Nov 20th 2012, 17:32 NEW YORK (Reuters) - One in six New Yorkers was unable to afford to buy meals on a regular basis this year and the number of people relying on food pantries and soup kitchens has surged in the three weeks since Superstorm Sandy, the New York City Coalition Against Hunger said on Tuesday. The number of New Yorkers reporting food insecurity was up even before Sandy made landfall late last month, according to an annual report by the nonprofit coalition. ... | | U.S. releases new healthcare reform rules on insurance coverage Nov 20th 2012, 17:30 WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama's administration on Tuesday formally proposed new rules requiring insurers to cover people with preexisting conditions and set minimum health benefits to millions of others under U.S. healthcare reform law. Two weeks after Obama's re-election ensured the survival of the 2010 law that Republicans have vowed to repeal, the proposal is the first in an expected deluge of rulemaking to implement the law in time for its January 1, 2014, start date. ... | | Former Senator Warren Rudman, budget deal architect, dies at 82 Nov 20th 2012, 17:11 LITTLETON, New Hampshire (Reuters) - Former U.S. Senator Warren Rudman, a moderate New Hampshire Republican known for a budget deal that helped slash government deficits in the 1990s, died on Monday at age 82, state officials said. Rudman, who served in the Senate from 1980 to 1993, was best known for his work in the 1980s on what became known as the Gramm-Rudman Act — a bipartisan budget agreement that provided automatic cuts to federal spending if the deficit exceeded certain targets. A platoon leader in the U.S. ... | | Two in failed Ohio bridge bombing plot sentenced to prison Nov 20th 2012, 16:57 AKRON, Ohio (Reuters) - Two self-described anarchists who pleaded guilty to plotting to blow up a four-lane highway bridge near Cleveland were sentenced on Tuesday to 10 and 11 years in prison by a federal judge. Douglas Wright, 27, and Brandon Baxter, 20, both pleaded guilty on September 5 to conspiracy to use a weapon of mass destruction, along with other related charges. U.S. District Judge David D. Dowd Jr. gave Wright 11 and a half years in prison and Baxter received just under 10 years in prison. Both received lifetime parole. ... | | French combat troops withdraw from Afghan war Nov 20th 2012, 16:44  KABUL (Reuters) - France withdrew its combat troops from Afghanistan on Tuesday, marking the end of its battlefield role in the NATO-led war after a presence of more than 10 years. Four hundred French troops returned to the Afghan capital after four years of combat operations in nearby Kapisa province and Kabul's Sarobi district, a spokesman for the French military said, adding they would return to France within days. "Today is the end of our forward operations. By the end of the year, we will have 1,500 French troops remaining in Afghanistan in non-combat operations," said Lt. ...
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