| Brother, spare a room? Americans fight poverty sharing homes Nov 28th 2012, 20:26 WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Many Americans are building bulwarks against poverty out of roommates, group houses and their parents' spare rooms, with a Census report released on Wednesday finding the number of people considered "additional adults" in U.S. households grew between 2007 and 2011. In 2011, 17.9 percent of those 18 or older were considered "additional adults," compared to 2007, when 16 percent of legal adults fell within the definition. An additional adult is someone who is not the head of a household, and is living with someone other than a spouse or domestic partner. ... |  | New York tells Con Ed to prepare in case Indian Point shuts Nov 28th 2012, 20:04 (Reuters) - New York energy regulators told power companies in New York City to develop plans to keep the lights on in the Big Apple in case the giant Indian Point nuclear power plant, which supplies about a quarter of the city's electricity, is forced to shut down. New York Governor Andrew Cuomo wants the two reactors at Indian Point shut when their operating licenses expire in 2013 and 2015 in part because the nuclear plant is located in the New York metropolitan area, home to some 19 million people. ... | | Violent crime takes a holiday in New York City Nov 28th 2012, 20:02  NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York City passed a day without a single report of a person being shot, stabbed or subject to other sorts of violent crime for the first time in recent memory, police said on Wednesday. The rare day occurred on Monday, near the end of a year when the city's murder rate is on target to hit its lowest point since 1960, according to New York Police Department chief spokesman Paul Browne. Browne said it was "first time in memory" the city's police force had experienced such a peaceful day. ...
| | Judge allows civil suits in meningitis outbreak to proceed Nov 28th 2012, 18:52 BOSTON (Reuters) - A federal judge in Boston on Wednesday allowed civil suits against the pharmacy at the heart of the deadly U.S. meningitis outbreak to proceed and noted that any criminal case would have priority in gathering evidence. U.S. District Judge Dennis Saylor rejected arguments by attorneys for the pharmacy, its owners and an affiliate company to delay the start of civil proceedings until a panel of judges in Washington meets early next year to determine how to handle the roughly 70 suits filed in Massachusetts, Minnesota, Tennessee and Michigan. ... | | Texas officials take steps to seize polygamist sect's ranch Nov 28th 2012, 17:38 AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - Texas officials on Wednesday filed legal documents to seize a 1,600-acre West Texas ranch where officials say jailed polygamist leader Warren Jeffs sexually assaulted children. The state attorney general's office filed a search and seizure warrant and an affidavit in state District Court in Schleicher County over the YFZ (Yearning for Zion) Ranch in Eldorado, Texas. ... | |
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