| Maine gets set to ring wedding bells for same-sex couples Dec 29th 2012, 05:17 PORTLAND, Maine (Reuters) - Gay and lesbian couples eager to become the first to wed under Maine's newly enacted same-sex marriage law gathered Friday night outside City Hall in Portland, the state's largest city, waiting until the stroke of midnight to exchange their vows. About a half dozen couples huddled with friends and family in freezing temperatures outside the building before the doors to the city clerk's office were opened at 10 p.m. local time, and by 11:30 p.m. the number of prospective brides and grooms had more than doubled and was expected to grow. ... |  | Nevada murder conviction reversed over dismissal of black juror Dec 29th 2012, 04:34 (Reuters) - Nevada's top court has overturned the murder conviction of a Las Vegas man sentenced to life in prison in the shooting death of his brother-in-law, ruling that a black woman with "Democratic views" was improperly dismissed from the jury pool. As part of its ruling, the three-judge panel of the state Supreme Court on Thursday ordered a new trial for Jermaine Brass, 28, one of two brothers convicted in the slaying of their sister's husband, Ernest Mitchell, in 2009. ... | | U.S. industry presses for duties on shrimp from seven countries Dec 29th 2012, 02:34 WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. shrimp producers filed a petition on Friday asking the Commerce Department to impose punitive duties on billions of dollars of shrimp from China, Vietnam, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand and Ecuador to offset what they said were unfair foreign government subsidies. "Today's filing is about the survival of the entire U.S. shrimp industry," C. David Veal, executive director of the Coalition of Gulf Shrimp Industries, said in a statement. The group represents shrimp fisherman in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas who say they have lost ... | |
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