| Confessed serial killer found dead in Alaska jail cell Dec 3rd 2012, 04:08 ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) - A confessed serial killer awaiting trial for the kidnapping death of an Anchorage teenager was found dead in his jail cell Sunday in an apparent suicide, law enforcement officials said. Israel Keyes had admitted to abducting and killing 18-year-old Samantha Koenig, who disappeared in February from an espresso stand in Anchorage, officials said at a news conference Sunday. Keyes also admitted to killing a Vermont couple, Bill and Lorraine Currier, in June 2011, and up to five more people whom he did not name, prosecutors said. ... |  | Soldier in WikiLeaks case seemed suicidal at times: sergeants Dec 3rd 2012, 03:21  FORT MEADE, Maryland (Reuters) - The U.S. Army private charged with leaking classified U.S. war documents was held in extreme confinement for nine months at a Marine Corps detention center because of a pattern of behavior suggesting suicidal thoughts, military officials testified Sunday at a pretrial hearing. ...
| | Los Angeles port strike triggers fears, lobbying by businesses Dec 3rd 2012, 02:51  (Reuters) - A national coalition of U.S. business groups is urging an end to a strike at the twin California ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach amid fears that a prolonged stand-off will cost the American economy many billions of dollars, and could even spread to the east coast. Trade groups led by the National Retail Federation have sent letters to U.S. President Barack Obama and leading members of Congress asking them to intervene and help end the strike at America's two busiest container harbor facilities. ...
| | Union solidarity rubs up against slow economy in LA port strike Dec 3rd 2012, 02:51 LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Union solidarity can have different faces. On a rainy Sunday morning it's the drawn and weary face of longshoreman Jack Bagliazo, caught between his nearly 40 years in the union and the steady work at the Port of Los Angeles he needs as Christmas approaches. "I understand, and I'll support their cause," Bagliazo, 57, said between sips of beer at Godmother's Saloon. The dimly lit bar with pool tables and nautical-themed decor in San Pedro, California, is two blocks from the port where a strike by clerks could soon enter its second week. ... | |
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