| Secret Service agent found dead, apparent suicide: source Nov 2nd 2012, 03:47 WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A Secret Service agent assigned to President Barack Obama's protective detail was found dead on Saturday in an apparent suicide, a law enforcement source said on Thursday. Special agent Rafael Prieto was under investigation for having an unreported romantic relationship with a foreign national, the source said. The agent's death is being investigated by the District of Columbia police, said Max Milien, a spokesman for the Secret Service. ... |  | Secret Service agent found dead, apparent suicide: source Nov 2nd 2012, 03:47 WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A Secret Service agent assigned to President Barack Obama's protective detail was found dead on Saturday in an apparent suicide, a law enforcement source said on Thursday. Special agent Rafael Prieto was under investigation for having an unreported romantic relationship with a foreign national, the source said. The agent's death is being investigated by the District of Columbia police, said Max Milien, a spokesman for the Secret Service. ... | | Nearly 30 Air Force Academy cadets injured in annual ritual Nov 2nd 2012, 03:45 DENVER (Reuters) - Nearly 30 Air Force Academy cadets required medical care, with six of them hospitalized, after an annual tradition to mark the first snowfall of the season turned into an out-of-control melee, school officials said on Wednesday. An unauthorized ritual last week called "First Shirt/First Snow," in which freshman cadets try to throw their cadet sergeant into a snowbank, grew violent and resulted in injuries, the academy said in a statement. "A relatively small number of cadets chose to take part in this unsafe activity," Brigadier General Gregory Lengyel said. ... | | Fuel scarce, East Coast struggles to recover Nov 2nd 2012, 03:36  NEW YORK/SEASIDE HEIGHTS, New Jersey (Reuters) - Rescuers searched flooded homes for survivors, drivers lined up for hours to get scarce gasoline and millions remained without power on Thursday as New York City and nearby towns struggled to recover from one of the biggest storms to hit the United States. New York subway trains crawled back to limited service after being shut down since Sunday, but the lower half of Manhattan still lacked power and surrounding areas such as Staten Island, the New Jersey shore and the city of Hoboken remained crippled from a record storm surge and flooding. ...
| | Fuel scarce, East Coast struggles to recover Nov 2nd 2012, 03:36 NEW YORK/SEASIDE HEIGHTS, New Jersey (Reuters) - Rescuers searched flooded homes for survivors, drivers lined up for hours to get scarce gasoline and millions remained without power on Thursday as New York City and nearby towns struggled to recover from one of the biggest storms to hit the United States. New York subway trains crawled back to limited service after being shut down since Sunday, but the lower half of Manhattan still lacked power and surrounding areas such as Staten Island, the New Jersey shore and the city of Hoboken remained crippled from a record storm surge and flooding. ... | | U.S. Coast Guard suspends search for captain of replica HMS Bounty Nov 2nd 2012, 03:34  Charleston, South Carolina (Reuters) - The U.S. Coast Guard on Thursday suspended a four-day, round-the-clock search for Robin Walbridge, 63, the missing captain of the replica tall ship HMS Bounty, which sank in heavy seas stirred up by Hurricane Sandy. Fourteen crew members were rescued from life rafts by Coast Guard helicopters on Monday, but Walbridge and another crew member, Claudene Christian, were washed overboard before they could make it to the rafts. Christian, 42, was pulled from the sea later and flown to hospital, where she was pronounced dead. ...
| | U.S. Coast Guard suspends search for captain of replica HMS Bounty Nov 2nd 2012, 03:34 Charleston, South Carolina (Reuters) - The U.S. Coast Guard on Thursday suspended a four-day, round-the-clock search for Robin Walbridge, 63, the missing captain of the replica tall ship HMS Bounty, which sank in heavy seas stirred up by Hurricane Sandy. Fourteen crew members were rescued from life rafts by Coast Guard helicopters on Monday, but Walbridge and another crew member, Claudene Christian, were washed overboard before they could make it to the rafts. Christian, 42, was pulled from the sea later and flown to hospital, where she was pronounced dead. ... | | Poor seamanship blamed for two fatal California yachting wrecks Nov 2nd 2012, 03:02 SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Poor seamanship, including risky or inattentive sailing maneuvers, was primarily to blame for two yacht racing crashes in April that killed nine mariners off the California coast, yachting association investigators have found. Examinations conducted of both accidents, which occurred two weeks apart, were presented on Thursday at a San Francisco conference of U.S. Sailing, the chief organizational body for American sport and recreational yachting. Reporting for the first time on the wreck of the 37-foot (11. ... | | Poor seamanship blamed for two fatal California yachting wrecks Nov 2nd 2012, 03:02 SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Poor seamanship, including risky or inattentive sailing maneuvers, was primarily to blame for two yacht racing crashes in April that killed nine mariners off the California coast, yachting association investigators have found. Examinations conducted of both accidents, which occurred two weeks apart, were presented on Thursday at a San Francisco conference of U.S. Sailing, the chief organizational body for American sport and recreational yachting. Reporting for the first time on the wreck of the 37-foot (11. ... | | Factbox: Storm Sandy blamed for at least 98 deaths in U.S., Canada Nov 2nd 2012, 02:49 (Reuters) - Deaths in the United States and Canada from Sandy, the massive storm that hit the U.S. East Coast this week, rose to at least 98 on Thursday after more fatalities were reported by officials in New York City, New Jersey and elsewhere. The number of dead in New York City rose to 40, police said. At least 20 of the city's dead were found on Staten Island, whose southeast flank took the full brunt of the storm surge. In New Jersey, authorities said the death toll in the state had reached 13 as search-and-rescue teams gained access to devastated areas. ... | | Cost of San Onofre nuclear outage in California reaches $317 million: Edison Nov 2nd 2012, 01:59 (Reuters) - The cost for the prolonged outage at the damaged San Onofre nuclear power plant in California has topped $317 million for the year, the plant's primary owner, utility Southern California Edison, said Thursday. Inspection and repairs of giant steam generators inside the two-unit nuclear plant - which has been offline since January when a radiation leak was discovered - have cost the utility $96 million, officials of SCE's parent, Edison International, said during an earnings call. ... | | Cost of San Onofre nuclear outage in California reaches $317 million: Edison Nov 2nd 2012, 01:59 (Reuters) - The cost for the prolonged outage at the damaged San Onofre nuclear power plant in California has topped $317 million for the year, the plant's primary owner, utility Southern California Edison, said Thursday. Inspection and repairs of giant steam generators inside the two-unit nuclear plant - which has been offline since January when a radiation leak was discovered - have cost the utility $96 million, officials of SCE's parent, Edison International, said during an earnings call. ... | | Storm-hit New Yorkers uneasy about decision to hold marathon Nov 2nd 2012, 01:54  NEW YORK (Reuters) - A symbol of resilience, or tactless and ill-timed? New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg's decision to proceed with the world's largest marathon on Sunday is stirring up controversy in the storm-ravaged metropolis. As emergency workers wade through flooded homes to look for survivors and millions of people remain without power in the Northeast, the death toll from superstorm Sandy has swelled to 95. "If they take one first responder from Staten Island to cover this marathon, I will scream," New York City Councilman James Oddo said on his Twitter account. ...
| | Storm-hit New Yorkers uneasy about decision to hold marathon Nov 2nd 2012, 01:54 NEW YORK (Reuters) - A symbol of resilience, or tactless and ill-timed? New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg's decision to proceed with the world's largest marathon on Sunday is stirring up controversy in the storm-ravaged metropolis. As emergency workers wade through flooded homes to look for survivors and millions of people remain without power in the Northeast, the death toll from superstorm Sandy has swelled to 95. "If they take one first responder from Staten Island to cover this marathon, I will scream," New York City Councilman James Oddo said on his Twitter account. ... | | Frazzled New Yorkers fret about long road back to normalcy Nov 2nd 2012, 01:39  NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York authorities have made a big push for normalcy after megastorm Sandy, but for many residents dealing with water-logged homes, power outages, gasoline shortages and painfully slow commutes, things are far from that. Officials have moved quickly to try to jump-start business and tourism after the storm. The New York Stock Exchange reopened after a historic two-day closure, with a smiling Mayor Michael Bloomberg ringing the opening bell. The subways began to rumble with limited service on Thursday. Broadway theater is back. ...
| | Frazzled New Yorkers fret about long road back to normalcy Nov 2nd 2012, 01:39 NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York authorities have made a big push for normalcy after megastorm Sandy, but for many residents dealing with water-logged homes, power outages, gasoline shortages and painfully slow commutes, things are far from that. Officials have moved quickly to try to jump-start business and tourism after the storm. The New York Stock Exchange reopened after a historic two-day closure, with a smiling Mayor Michael Bloomberg ringing the opening bell. The subways began to rumble with limited service on Thursday. Broadway theater is back. ... | | Cell phone system recovering slowly after Sandy Nov 2nd 2012, 01:20 WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Cell phone towers knocked off line by superstorm Sandy were being gradually restored to service, but fueling generators for relay sites in areas without electricity is difficult, the Federal Communications Commission said on Thursday. Sandy knocked out about 25 percent of cell sites on the U.S. east coast this week, the FCC said. About 19 percent were still offline as of Thursday morning, the FCC said. Cell sites can be towers or smaller facilities which relay wireless calls. ... | | Tempers fray as NY fuel crunch deepens, relief days away Nov 2nd 2012, 01:01 NEW YORK (Reuters) - The fuel supply crisis gripping the New York area deepened on Thursday as the city's iconic taxis started turning away business while drivers searched hours for a tank of gas, and there were growing signs that the worst of the crunch is not over. Long, increasingly ill-tempered lines of motorists snaked through New York and neighboring New Jersey, snarling traffic as motorists hunted for the few service stations still operating in the wake of the devastating storm Sandy. Less than half of the thousands of stations in the region are open, officials said. ... | | On Delaware coastal island, gratitude to share after storm Nov 2nd 2012, 00:59  FENWICK ISLAND, Delaware (Reuters) - The usually tranquil beachfront communities along the Delaware shore were prepared for the worst from Hurricane Sandy and as luck would have it, they got something less. The damage from flooding is limited, compared to what might have been. The cleanup is ongoing. And relief, in the form of disaster assistance, is on hand. People here are grateful to Mother Nature, to local authorities-and to Barack Obama. Though he did not set foot here, television made him a presence. ...
| | Airlines look to resume full flight schedules in New York area Nov 2nd 2012, 00:55  (Reuters) - Major U.S. airlines moved to build up service in the New York area on Thursday, with the number of canceled flights easing as LaGuardia Airport re-opened for business in the wake of Hurricane Sandy. Airlines had canceled about 750 flights for Thursday as of late afternoon, according to flight-tracking service FlightAware.com. That was the lowest daily tally of halted flights since airlines began cutting their U.S. flying on Sunday ahead of the storm. Delta Air Lines expected to operate about half of its roughly 260 flights at LaGuardia on Thursday. At John F. ...
| | Sandy forecasts were on target, but message was a bit garbled Nov 2nd 2012, 00:27  (Reuters) - The first predictions of the monster storm that slammed into the East Coast of the United States came nearly a week before Sandy made landfall on Monday, giving state and local officials ample notice to issue warnings and make preparations for the threat. But in the aftermath of the storm that left a swath of destruction across 15 states and cut power to more than 8 million people, some meteorologists question the federal government's decision not to issue hurricane or tropical storm warnings for Sandy north of the Carolinas. ...
| | In hipster Brooklyn, a fuel terminal padlocked as drivers steam Nov 2nd 2012, 00:23  NEW YORK (Reuters) - As drivers in Sandy-battered New York sit steaming in long lines to buy gasoline, a small fuel terminal on a remote road in a trendy Brooklyn neighborhood lies idle, gates padlocked - mute testimony to the root of the energy crisis now gripping the city. Motiva's plant in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, like so many fuel-receiving stations that dot the shores of New Jersey and the boroughs of New York City, has been closed since the superstorm struck, unable to receive or deliver fuel that could ease the growing squeeze on gasoline supplies. ...
| | Judge backs Catholic firm over contraception mandate Nov 2nd 2012, 00:16 (Reuters) - A Catholic-owned family business in Michigan does not have to comply with the provision of the new U.S. healthcare law that requires private employers to provide employees with health insurance that covers birth control, a federal judge in Detroit has ruled. U.S. District Judge Robert Cleland, in a ruling late Wednesday, temporarily blocked the government from forcing the owner of Weingartz Supply Company, which sells outdoor power equipment, to include contraception in its health coverage of employees. ... | |
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