| Ex-U.S. Marine jailed in Mexico wins back his freedom Dec 21st 2012, 17:25  MIAMI (Reuters) - The mother of a former U.S. Marine jailed in a notoriously violent corner of northern Mexico said he was expected to be released on Friday after he was taken prisoner about four months ago for possessing a shotgun that was a family heirloom. "They ruled last night. Literally, we got like a call from the lawyer at 2:30 in the morning," said Olivia Hammar, the Miami-based mother of 27-year-old Jon Hammar. She said Mexican authorities had decided to drop all charges against her troubled son, whose case grabbed the U.S. ...
|  | Gun lobby CEO calls for guns to protect schools Dec 21st 2012, 17:18  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The powerful National Rifle Association gun lobby called on Friday for the deployment of armed guards in every school in the United States, weighing in on gun violence for the first time since a school shooting a week ago that shocked Americans. "The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun," Wayne LaPierre, the head of the lobby group which opposes tighter weapons controls, told reporters. The largest U.S. ...
| | Three face murder charges in deadly Indianapolis home blast Dec 21st 2012, 17:08 INDIANAPOLIS (Reuters) - A man and woman who lived in an Indianapolis house that exploded in November killing two neighbors and damaging scores of homes, have been charged with felony murder and numerous other charges along with the man's brother, prosecutors said on Friday. Monserrate Shirley and Mark Leonard, who lived in the home that exploded, and Leonard's brother, Robert Leonard, were charged with murder on Thursday in connection with the explosion and arrested on Friday, authorities said. ... | | Idaho, California cities deemed best in U.S. for men Dec 21st 2012, 16:41  NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. men looking for the best place to find happiness, health and a good quality of life might consider heading to Boise, Idaho, or San Jose and San Francisco in northern California. The three western U.S. cities top the list of the 100 best towns for men in a new ranking compiled by Men's Health magazine, while Charleston, West Virginia, Philadelphia and Birmingham, Alabama are considered the worst. ...
| | More than 320,000 without power in East after storms Dec 21st 2012, 16:38  (Reuters) - More than 320,000 homes and businesses were without power in the Eastern half of the United States on Friday after a series of snow and rain storms over the past few days, power companies said. The hardest hit states Friday morning were Michigan, New Jersey, New York, Illinois, Indiana and Wisconsin, but outages also remained in Arkansas, Louisiana, Texas, Nebraska and Iowa from storms on Thursday. Storms knocked out power to more than 660,000 customers over the past couple of days. (Reporting by Scott DiSavino; Editing by Bernadette Baum and John Wallace)
| | NRA chief calls for armed police in every school Dec 21st 2012, 16:36 WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Wayne LaPierre, the head of the National Rifle Association, on Friday called for armed police officers and other security measures at every school in the United States. "The NRA is going to bring all its knowledge, all its dedication and all its resources to develop a model National School Shield emergency response program for every school in America that wants it," he told a news conference. ... | | Cold snap to hit Florida citrus; freeze warning issued Dec 21st 2012, 16:35  MIAMI (Reuters) - U.S. government forecasters have issued a freeze warning for parts of Florida's key citrus-growing region as a cold front threatens to carry icy temperatures into the Sunshine State this weekend. The National Weather Service office in Tampa Bay-Ruskin said in an advisory on Friday that the freeze warning for Levy, Citrus, Sumter, Hernando and Pasco counties was in effect from 2 a.m. to 9 a.m. EST (0700-1400 GMT). ...
| | Three-time U.S. Olympian reveals she worked as an escort Dec 21st 2012, 16:25  MILWAUKEE (Reuters) - Former Olympic middle-distance runner Suzy Favor Hamilton has confirmed that she worked as an high-end escort and issued an apology after an exposé about her double life was published on a tabloid Web site. The three-time Olympian from Stevens Point, Wisconsin tweeted that she became a prostitute because it provided coping mechanisms to deal with struggles in her marriage and her life. "I realize I have made highly irrational choices and I take full responsibility for them," she tweeted on Thursday, following a report on The Smoking Gun web site. ...
| | Barge en route to transfer oil from tanker aground in New York: Port Dec 21st 2012, 16:08  NEW YORK (Reuters) - Oil trapped in a tanker that ran aground on the Hudson River near Albany, New York will be transferred to a barge on Friday night, the Port of Albany said. The Stena Primorsk, a 600-foot (182-metre) motor tanker, was carrying 11.7 million gallons (under 280,000 barrels) of light crude oil when it lost steering control on Thursday morning and hit land near Stuyvesant, New York, about 20 miles downriver from Albany, according to the U.S. Coast Guard. ...
| | One of two Chicago jail escapees is caught: authorities Dec 21st 2012, 15:58 CHICAGO (Reuters) - Authorities have captured one of two bank robbers who broke out of a high-rise jail in downtown Chicago this week using a makeshift rope, an FBI spokesman said on Friday. Joseph Jose Banks was taken into custody without incident at about 11:30 Thursday night in an apartment complex on the city's north side, said FBI spokeswoman Joan Hyde. He will appear in federal court on Friday on a criminal complaint charging him with the escape. Banks and Kenneth Conley escaped from the Metropolitan Correctional Center in downtown Chicago early on Tuesday morning. ... | | Snow storm makes small dent in drought-stricken crop region Dec 21st 2012, 14:04  CHICAGO (Reuters) - The first major snow storm of winter did little to ease the worst drought in more than 50 years in the crop growing Central Plains and Midwest, while snarling traffic and hampering feeding and transportation of livestock. MDA EarthSat Weather meteorologist Kyle Tapley said six to 12 inches or more snow fell from Nebraska into Wisconsin during the past two days, the equivalent of about 0.50 inch to 1.00 inch of rain, that will help ease but not eliminate drought worries. ...
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