| Sour end to 2012 masks positive trends in America Jan 1st 2013, 01:53  CHICAGO (Reuters) - Many Americans seem to be in a sour mood as 2013 begins, after Hurricane Sandy ravaged parts of the East Coast, a gunman massacred 20 school children in Connecticut and a long, contentious election campaign was followed by failure to resolve the "fiscal cliff" issue by year-end. Americans have not been very optimistic since the Great Recession of 2008-2009, but the gloom had begun to lift this year until the blast of bad news as 2012 ended, IPSOS pollster Cliff Young said on Monday. IPSOS polling showed that some angst set in as the year ended. ...
|  | Federal safety team joins probe of fatal Oregon bus crash Jan 1st 2013, 01:40  PENDLETON, Oregon (Reuters) - Federal safety investigators joined Oregon state police on Monday in trying to find out what caused a tour bus to veer off a mountain highway and plunge down a snow-covered slope, killing nine passengers and injuring 39 others. The charter bus was carrying nearly 50 people, about two dozen of them holding foreign passports, through the Blue Mountains of northern Oregon en route from Las Vegas to Vancouver, British Columbia, when it crashed through a guard rail on Interstate 84 shortly after 10 a.m. on Sunday, authorities said. ...
| | Clinton suffers clot behind right ear, full recovery seen Jan 1st 2013, 01:39  WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton suffered a blood clot in a vein between her brain and skull behind her right ear but is expected to make a full recovery, her doctors said on Monday in a statement released by the State Department. Clinton did not suffer a stroke or neurological damage as a result of the clot, the doctors said, adding that "she is in good spirits, engaging with her doctors, her family and her staff." The U.S. ...
| | Chief justice stresses need for judges, funds despite US fiscal strain Jan 1st 2013, 00:55  (Reuters) - U.S. Chief Justice John Roberts on Monday called on the White House and Congress to provide sufficient funding and enough judges to ensure that the federal judiciary can do its job well despite the fiscal problems the country faces. In his annual report on the federal judiciary, Roberts recognized the battle in Washington over the "fiscal cliff," saying the country has a fiscal ledger that has "gone awry" and must address the longer-term problem of a "truly extravagant and burgeoning national debt. ...
| | Maryland ushers in New Year with its first gay weddings Jan 1st 2013, 00:08 BALTIMORE (Reuters) - Wedding bells were set to ring in the New Year for seven gay couples in Maryland early on Tuesday, the first wave of nuptials since voters in the state backed the legalization of same-sex marriage. Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake will pronounce the seven couples "lawfully married" rather than "husband and wife" at the 12:30 a.m. ceremony on New Year's Day in City Hall. "It's just a long time coming," said Darcia Anthony, 32, who serves in the National Guard and will be married in the City Hall ceremony to her high school sweetheart, Danielle Williams, 32, a chef. ... | | 2012 marred by U.S. mass shooting casualties Jan 1st 2013, 00:06  MILWAUKEE (Reuters) - A single bullet hole. Surrounded by peeling orange paint. Marked by a small plaque inscribed with "We Are One" and "8-5-12." While diminutive, it is a powerful reminder to those who come now to pray here of the carnage that descended on this Sikh temple nearly five months ago. A white supremacist went on a rampage, killing six worshipers and wounding four, including a police officer, before being shot by police and then taking his own life. "We left one bullet hole to remember them ... ...
| | January groundbreaking for Atlanta's College Football Hall of Fame Jan 1st 2013, 00:00 ATLANTA (Reuters) - Groundbreaking for a new College Football Hall of Fame in downtown Atlanta is set for January 28, and the first visitors are expected to walk through the doors in August 2014, the National Football Foundation said on Monday. The Foundation decided three years ago that it was moving the Hall of Fame to Atlanta from South Bend, Indiana, near the campus of the University of Notre Dame, a college football powerhouse. The South Bend facility closed on Sunday. ... | | Revelers gather in NY's frigid Times Square on New Year's Eve Dec 31st 2012, 23:57  NEW YORK (Reuters) - Revelers gathered hours ahead of midnight in New York's frigid Times Square on Monday for the traditional New Year's Eve celebration that ends with the descent of a huge crystal ball at the stroke of midnight. Up to a million people were expected in the blocks around Times Square, and another billion people were expected to watch on television, city officials said. People filled pens in the center of Times Square hours before the end of 2012. Police set up barricades to keep away the overflow crowd. ...
| | Chief justice stresses need for judges, funds despite fiscal strain Dec 31st 2012, 23:05 (Reuters) - U.S. Chief Justice John Roberts on Monday called on the White House and Congress to provide sufficient funding and enough judges to ensure that the federal judiciary can do its job well despite the fiscal problems the country faces. In his annual report on the federal judiciary, Roberts recognized the battle in Washington over the "fiscal cliff," saying the country has a fiscal ledger that has "gone awry" and must address the longer-term problem of a "truly extravagant and burgeoning national debt. ... | | N.C. governor grants pardons in divisive civil rights-era case Dec 31st 2012, 22:56 WINSTON-SALEM, North Carolina (Reuters) - North Carolina Governor Bev Perdue pardoned on Monday a mostly African-American group known as the "Wilmington 10" after they were falsely convicted of firebombing a white-owned grocery store in 1971 during a time of bitter racial unrest. Human and civil rights groups had long decried the convictions and prison sentences ranging from 15 to 34 years for the nine black men and one white woman, arguing they were victims of racial prejudice and prosecutorial misconduct. ... | | Texas health program can exclude Planned Parenthood: judge Dec 31st 2012, 22:06 SAN ANTONIO, Texas (Reuters) - Texas won a court victory on Monday in its effort to stop state funds under a health program for low-income women from going to clinics affiliated with Planned Parenthood, a group that provides abortions at some of its facilities. A Texas judge allowed the state to go ahead with a revamped program for poor women, the Women's Health Program, that does not include Planned Parenthood. Planned Parenthood said it does not provide abortions at clinics that participate in the state women's health program. ... | |
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