| NY subway fare-jumper attacks police officer at Times Square Dec 31st 2012, 21:45 NEW YORK (Reuters) - A suspected subway fare-jumper attacked a New York City police officer who was attempting to arrest him at the Times Square subway station on New Year's Eve, the latest in a series of crimes to disturb users of the underground train system. In two separate incidents this month, commuters were pushed to their deaths in front of subway cars as stunned travelers looked on in horror. On Monday morning, a 19-year-old man attacked a police officer who was arresting him for jumping the subway entrance turnstile without paying his fare, police said. ... |  | Last Cuban "commuters" retire from jobs at U.S. Navy base Dec 31st 2012, 21:37 (Reuters) - The last two Cuban workers at the Guantanamo Bay U.S. naval base in Cuba retired on Monday from jobs they began more than five decades ago when the United States and its reluctant host enjoyed friendlier relations. Harry Henry, an 82-year-old office supply technician, and Luis La Rosa, a 79-year-old welder, had worked on the U.S. base in southeast Cuba since they were teenagers. They were among thousands of Cuban laborers who once commuted to the base each day, back when U.S. sailors spent their shore leave on Cuban-controlled territory outside the base. ... | | Gun groups seek boycott of newspaper that named permit-holders Dec 31st 2012, 21:31 NEW YORK (Reuters) - Gun-owner groups called on Monday for an advertising boycott of a suburban New York newspaper that is under fire for publishing the names and addresses of pistol permit-holders in New York City suburbs. A map published in the White Plains, New York-based Journal News last week listed thousands of permit-holders in Westchester and Rockland counties, just north of New York City. The newspaper has said it is compiling yet more names of pistol permit-holders in suburban Putnam County that it intends to publish as well. ... | | New York City breaks tourism record for third straight year Dec 31st 2012, 21:30  (Reuters) - Some 52 million visitors traveled to New York City in 2012 in a third straight record-breaking year for tourism, the mayor's office and the city's tourism organization said on Monday. More than a million additional tourists visited to New York in 2012 than in 2011, a 2.1 percent increase, Mayor Michael Bloomberg's office and NYC & Company, New York's tourism and marketing organization, said in a news release. New York received 41 million visitors from elsewhere in the United States, and 11 million traveled from a foreign country. The tourists spent $36. ...
| | Federal safety team joins probe of fatal Oregon bus crash Dec 31st 2012, 20:32  PORTLAND, Oregon (Reuters) - Federal safety investigators joined the Oregon state police on Monday in seeking to determine what caused a tour bus to careen off a mountain highway and plunge down a snow-covered slope, killing nine passengers and injuring at least 27 others. The charter bus was carrying about 40 people 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 on Sunday morning, authorities said. ...
| | Connecticut attorney general says Newtown legal claim misguided Dec 31st 2012, 20:12 (Reuters) - A $100 million claim filed against the state of Connecticut in the wake of a school shooting that left 20 children and six adults dead two weeks ago is misguided, Connecticut's attorney general said in a statement on Monday. Last week, a New Haven-based attorney filed an intention to sue the state on behalf of a 6-year-old survivor of the December 14 attack - the second deadliest school shooting in U.S. history. Under Connecticut law, any claim against the state must be approved by the state claims commissioner before it can move forward. ... | | Los Angeles man charged with setting homeless woman on fire Dec 31st 2012, 20:04 LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A 24-year-old Los Angeles area man accused of setting a homeless woman on fire as she slept on a bus stop bench was charged on Monday with attempted murder and aggravated mayhem. Prosecutors say Dennis Petillo doused the 67-year-old woman with a flammable liquid as she slept on a bench in the Los Angeles section of Van Nuys in the early morning hours of December 27 and then set her on fire. The woman, who has not been identified by authorities, survived the attack but remains hospitalized in critical condition. ... | | New York bomb suspects had "terrorist encyclopedia" Dec 31st 2012, 18:06 NEW YORK (Reuters) - Police arrested a New York City couple in their apartment on Saturday after authorities investigating a credit card theft found a highly explosive compound, bomb-making manuals, a sawed-off shotgun and ammunition, officials said on Monday. Morgan Gliedman, 27, and Aaron Greene, 31, are being charged with two counts of suspicion of criminal possession of a weapon, for the shotgun, court documents show. One sheaf of papers found in the apartment had a cover page that read "The Terrorist Encyclopedia," according to court documents. ... | |
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