| Analysis: U.S. ports' drive to control costs leads to labor strife Jan 17th 2013, 06:04 (Reuters) - When Charles Spencer became a crane operator at the Jacksonville Port Authority in Florida in 1971, it took at least a day for 200 dockworkers to unload 160-pound sacks of coffee from a cargo ship. Now the same job takes 20 dockworkers, assisted by massive robots programmed to lift and stack containers, an hour. One thing hasn't changed, however: American dockworkers are among the highest-paid blue-collar workers in the country. Spencer says he made about $32,000 a year when he started; today, the average dockworker makes more than $115,000 a year. ... |  | Virginia executes convicted murderer who wanted the death penalty Jan 17th 2013, 04:01  PORTSMOUTH, Virginia (Reuters) - A man who admitted to strangling two fellow prison inmates and threatened to continue killing until he received the death penalty was executed in Virginia on Wednesday, the first time the state has used the electric chair in nearly three years. Robert Charles Gleason Jr., 42, had said he wanted to be put to death despite attempts by his former court-appointed attorneys to halt the execution and have him undergo a mental competency evaluation. ...
| | Colorado town asks judge to lift gag order in movie theater rampage Jan 17th 2013, 03:22 DENVER (Reuters) - The Colorado city of Aurora has asked a judge presiding over the criminal case of last summer's movie theater massacre to lift a gag order barring police and emergency personnel from publicly discussing the rampage, a court filing made public on Wednesday showed. Days after the July 20 shooting in which 12 died and dozens wounded, Arapahoe County District Judge William Sylvester imposed a court order prohibiting any party involved in the case, including law enforcement, from talking about it in the media. ... | | Defense casts accused would-be Oregon bomber as vulnerable Jan 17th 2013, 02:26  PORTLAND, Oregon (Reuters) - Lawyers for the accused would-be bomber of an Oregon Christmas tree-lighting event sought on Wednesday to cast their Somali-born client as an emotionally fragile teenager prone to manipulation by undercover agents who coached him in planning an act of mass murder. One of those agents, testifying under defense cross-examination in federal court, acknowledged that the target of the FBI's sting operation was a lonely, financially strapped student whose parents' marriage was unraveling. Mohamed Osman Mohamud, a naturalized U.S. ...
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