| State Department delays Keystone pipeline decision Jan 22nd 2013, 22:31  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration has delayed a decision on TransCanada Corp's rerouted Keystone XL oil pipeline until after March, even though Nebraska's governor on Tuesday approved a plan for part of the line running through his state. "We don't anticipate being able to conclude our own review before the end of the first quarter of this year," said Victoria Nuland, a spokeswoman at the State Department, which had previously said it would make a decision by that deadline. She said the department would take into consideration approval of the line by Nebraska Gov. Dave Heineman. ...
|  | Texas college cleared and declared safe after shooting Jan 22nd 2013, 22:29 HOUSTON (Reuters) - Lone Star College near Houston was cleared and declared safe on Tuesday after a shooting between two people left some people injured, acting Harris County Sheriff Armando Tello said. Both of the people involved in the altercation at the community college were in custody, he said. The college was evacuated earlier on Tuesday after the shooting, the latest in a string of school shootings since a gunman massacred 20 school children in Connecticut just over a month ago. (Reporting By Greg McCune) | | Orthodox Jewish therapist gets 103 years in prison for sex abuse Jan 22nd 2013, 21:59 NEW YORK (Reuters) - An ultra-Orthodox Jewish counselor was sentenced to 103 years in prison on Tuesday for sexually abusing a young female patient over three years in the insular Brooklyn community where they lived. Nechemya Weberman, who was convicted last month of sexual conduct against a child, criminal sexual acts, sexual abuse, and endangering the welfare of a child, faced up to 117 years behind bars at his sentencing. Now 18 years old and married, the victim was 12 years old when her parents sent her to Weberman, an unlicensed therapist, for counseling. ... | | New Mexico teen charged in family killings planned more carnage: police Jan 22nd 2013, 21:55 ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico (Reuters) - A 15-year-old accused of killing his parents and three younger siblings over the weekend planned to continue his rampage at a local Wal-Mart store then die in a shootout with police, investigators said on Tuesday. Bernalillo County Sheriff Dan Houston told reporters that 15-year-old Nehemiah Griego, who is accused of shooting his mother and siblings before killing his father hours later, had been contemplating the killing spree for "at least a week. ... | | One person critical, two others in hospital after Texas college shooting Jan 22nd 2013, 21:51  HOUSTON (Reuters) - One person was in critical condition and two others were taken to hospital with injuries after a shooting broke out between two people on the campus of Lone Star College near Houston on Tuesday, an official with an ambulance dispatch company said. "We did transport three patients from the scene," said Mark Smith, an official with Harris county Emergency Corps which dispatches ambulances in that area. "The patients were described as one critical, two as urgent. My understanding is that at least one of the patients had heart issues, not gunshots," he said. ...
| | Philadelphia probes killing of doctor who was bound, set ablaze Jan 22nd 2013, 21:46 PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - Homicide detectives on Tuesday combed the Philadelphia neighborhood where a doctor was found dead, tied up and set on fire in her home. "We have detectives out at the scene, re-canvassing the area, looking for (surveillance) video, talking to neighbors," said Police Captain James Clark, head of the homicide squad. He said the autopsy report was not completed but he believes that Melissa Ketunuti, 35, was strangled on Monday in the basement of her home in the Center City neighborhood. "Her hands and feet had been bound behind her with some type of rope," Clark said. ... | | Massachusetts crime lab chemist arraigned for evidence tampering Jan 22nd 2013, 21:32 (Reuters) - A chemist at a western Massachusetts drug laboratory pleaded not guilty on Tuesday to charges of tampering with drug evidence, the second such accusation against a crime lab chemist in the state in recent months. Sonja Farak, 35, was arraigned on two counts of tampering with evidence and two counts of drug possession, according to a court clerk at Eastern Hampshire District Court in Belchertown, Massachusetts. Farak, who was arrested on Saturday, was being held in custody in lieu of $5,000 bail. ... | | New York's budget would close $1.3 billion gap without new taxes Jan 22nd 2013, 21:24  (Reuters) - New York Governor Andrew Cuomo proposed on Tuesday a $136.5 billion state budget for fiscal 2014 that boosts education spending and closes a $1.3 billion gap without raising taxes. The spending plan, which would be a 1.9 percent increase, or $2.5 billion, from the current fiscal year, must be approved by state lawmakers. The state's fiscal year begins April 1, three months earlier than most. Cuomo's proposal would increase money for education by $889 million, or 4.4 percent from current levels. ...
| | U.S. top court rejects hospitals' Medicare claims suit Jan 22nd 2013, 20:44  (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court rejected on Tuesday a bid by a group of 18 hospitals to reopen a specialized group of Medicare reimbursement claims that are up to 25 years old. The hospitals, which are entitled to extra compensation for treating a large number of low-income patients, claimed the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services miscalculated those payments between 1987 and 1994. ...
| | Suspicious Los Angeles hotel fire injures 14 people Jan 22nd 2013, 20:18 LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - At least 14 people were injured, three of them critically, in a suspicious pre-dawn fire at a residential hotel in Los Angeles that is being investigated as "criminal in nature," city fire officials said on Tuesday. Two of the critically hurt patients were in "grave condition," one with severe burns and another with respiratory injuries, while the third suffered a severe fracture when she jumped from the upper floor of the two-story building, officials said. ... | | Mississippi River traffic halted after vessel hits lock Jan 22nd 2013, 20:02 (Reuters) - Commercial shipping traffic on the Mississippi River north of St. Louis was halted on Tuesday after a vessel collided with a gate at Lock 27 near Granite City, Illinois, the system's busiest lock, a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers spokesperson said. The accident occurred in the lock's auxiliary chamber, which had been the only operational lock as the main chamber is closed for scheduled repairs until March. Corps personnel were assessing damages and could not immediately estimate how long the lock would remain out of service. ... | | Person with gun on Texas college campus; unclear if anyone shot Jan 22nd 2013, 19:31  (Reuters) - A person with a gun was on the campus of Lone Star College near Houston, Texas, but it was unclear if anyone had been shot, a spokesman for the school said Tuesday. The spokesman, Jed Young, who is executive director of communications for the Lone Star College System, said the North Harris campus of the school had been locked down and officials were trying to gather information. (Reporting By Greg McCune)
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