| Memphis library cards acceptable as photo ID for vote: court Nov 1st 2012, 19:55 NASHVILLE, Tennessee (Reuters) - Voters will be allowed to use Memphis library cards as photo identification in the November 6 election, the Tennessee Supreme Court ruled on Thursday in a blow to Republicans who wanted only ID issued by the federal and state governments to be allowed. Tennessee is among a number of states that have passed laws requiring voters to show photo ID. Republicans say the laws are needed to deter fraud, while Democrats say they are aimed at depressing turnout by voters who typically support their party. ... |  | Memphis library cards acceptable as photo ID for vote: court Nov 1st 2012, 19:55 NASHVILLE, Tennessee (Reuters) - Voters will be allowed to use Memphis library cards as photo identification in the November 6 election, the Tennessee Supreme Court ruled on Thursday in a blow to Republicans who wanted only ID issued by the federal and state governments to be allowed. Tennessee is among a number of states that have passed laws requiring voters to show photo ID. Republicans say the laws are needed to deter fraud, while Democrats say they are aimed at depressing turnout by voters who typically support their party. ... | | Nearly 4.5 million still without power in Northeast due Sandy: DOE Nov 1st 2012, 19:43 (Reuters) - Nearly 4.5 million customers were without power in 12 states late Thursday three days after Hurricane Sandy battered the U.S. East Coast, down from the 4.7 million out earlier in the day. (Reporting by Scott DiSavino; Editing by Gary Hill) | | Sandy snarls NY Harbor oil logistics, NYMEX gasoline delivery Nov 1st 2012, 19:39 NEW YORK (Reuters) - Logistical problems caused by power failures and navigational hazards from storm Sandy continued to roil New York Harbor on Thursday, threatening widespread delays in fuel deliveries off the New York Mercantile Exchange's futures contracts. With many New York and New Jersey gasoline stations running dry or without power, oil companies are scrambling to resupply their networks but cannot gain access to millions of barrels of fuel trapped in the region's terminals. A diesel fuel spill after the storm added to the woes, keeping a key waterway shut. ... | | Sandy snarls NY Harbor oil logistics, NYMEX gasoline delivery Nov 1st 2012, 19:39 NEW YORK (Reuters) - Logistical problems caused by power failures and navigational hazards from storm Sandy continued to roil New York Harbor on Thursday, threatening widespread delays in fuel deliveries off the New York Mercantile Exchange's futures contracts. With many New York and New Jersey gasoline stations running dry or without power, oil companies are scrambling to resupply their networks but cannot gain access to millions of barrels of fuel trapped in the region's terminals. A diesel fuel spill after the storm added to the woes, keeping a key waterway shut. ... | | U.S. Coast Guard says Arthur Kill leak contained Nov 1st 2012, 19:36 NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. Coast Guard said super storm Sandy damaged four diesel storage tanks at Motiva Enterprise's terminal at Seawaren, New Jersey, and two of them leaked fuel into the Arthur Kill waterway, which separates Staten Island from New Jersey. The Coast Guard said the fuel leak was contained in the area around the storage tanks and no sheen was reported in the navigable channel or on the New York side of the channel this morning. (Reporting by Selam Gebrekidan; Editing by Gary Hill) | | Bloomberg endorses Obama for a second term, climate change a focus Nov 1st 2012, 19:34  (Reuters) - New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg on Thursday endorsed President Barack Obama for a second term, citing the importance of Obama's record on climate change, particularly in the aftermath of the devastating blow dealt to the New York area by storm Sandy. "Our climate is changing," Bloomberg wrote in an opinion article for Bloomberg View. ...
| | Bloomberg endorses Obama for a second term, climate change a focus Nov 1st 2012, 19:34 (Reuters) - New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg on Thursday endorsed President Barack Obama for a second term, citing the importance of Obama's record on climate change, particularly in the aftermath of the devastating blow dealt to the New York area by storm Sandy. "Our climate is changing," Bloomberg wrote in an opinion article for Bloomberg View. ... | | Sandy on track to be second-largest flood loss ever Nov 1st 2012, 19:06 (Reuters) - The superstorm Sandy will likely end up as the second-largest insured flood loss in U.S. history, behind only Hurricane Katrina, a top executive of a leading flood insurance provider said on Thursday. Patty Templeton-Jones, the chief operating officer of Wright Flood, said the U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency is expecting claims on at least 80,000 flood insurance policies after Sandy. Wright is the largest private provider of policies guaranteed by FEMA's National Flood Insurance Program. (Reporting by Ben Berkowitz; Editing by Gary Hill) | | ConEd says power to resume for most NY customers by November 11 Nov 1st 2012, 18:56  (Reuters) - Consolidated Edison Inc said Thursday most of its customers in New York City and Westchester County, New York, will have power back by November 10-11, after Hurricane Sandy slammed into the U.S. East Coast earlier in the week, causing widespread damage and flooding. The New York utility said it expected to restore power in lower and mid-Manhattan by Saturday, November 3. Earlier, the company had said it expected power to be restored to lower Manhattan by Friday or Saturday and that it would take at least a week to restore power to areas with overhead lines like Westchester. ...
| | Gunman wounds four at college Halloween party in Los Angeles Nov 1st 2012, 18:54 LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A gunman opened fire outside a large Halloween party at the University of Southern California and wounded four people in the second major shooting incident involving the school this year, police said on Thursday. The violence erupted late on Wednesday outside a student party at the Tutor Campus Center, the university said in a statement. It said none of the wounded were affiliated with the school. ... | | Government to pay NJ, NY emergency power, transport costs Nov 1st 2012, 18:51  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The federal government will cover 100 percent of emergency power and public transportation costs through November 9 for the areas of New York and New Jersey that were hit hard by superstorm Sandy, according to the U.S. senators of the two states. The four senators, all Democrats - Frank Lautenberg and Robert Menendez in New Jersey and Charles Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand in New York - said the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) approved the emergency funding at President Barack Obama's request. ...
| | Ballot measures could affect U.S. state credits: Fitch Nov 1st 2012, 18:35 (Reuters) - Some of the 174 measures on ballots in 37 states in Tuesday's presidential election could impact key state credit factors, such as debt, finances and management, Fitch Ratings said on Thursday. Measures crowding ballots include bond authorizations and gambling expansion, as well as proposals to increase or limit taxes, the rating agency said. "The fact that so many states are seeking voter input on taxes attests to the continued political sensitivity of revenue raising in the current tight budgeting environment," said Fitch Managing Director Laura Porter in a statement. ... | | Rhode Island sues Schilling over failed 38 Studios deal Nov 1st 2012, 18:28 BOSTON (Reuters) - Rhode Island is suing former Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling and the former head of the state's economic development agency over a $75 million loan guarantee the agency made to the baseball player's failed video game company 38 Studios. The suit was filed in Superior Court on Thursday and listed Schilling, who named the company after his former jersey number, Keith Stokes, the former head of the state's Economic Development Corporation (EDC), several banks and law firms as defendants in the case. ... | | Immigration courts called inefficient, beset by delays Nov 1st 2012, 18:12 WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Immigration courts are inefficient and beset by delays, falling behind in processing proposed deportations in recent years despite having more judges hearing these cases, the Justice Department's inspector general said on Thursday. The courts completed 324,000 proceedings in the 2006 fiscal year but only 287,000 in the 2010 fiscal year, a report from Inspector General Michael Horowitz said. The number of immigration judges grew from 211 to 238 during that time period, according to the report. ... | | Hospitals sue government over private Medicare audits Nov 1st 2012, 18:08 WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A coalition of hospitals sued the U.S. government on Thursday, claiming that private auditors hired to crack down on improper Medicare payments are denying hospitals hundreds of millions of dollars in legal payments for necessary care. The lawsuit alleges auditors known as Recovery Audit Contractors (RAC) forced hospitals to repay Medicare for the cost of in-patient services by determining months and sometimes years after the fact that beneficiaries should have been treated as out-patients instead of being admitted. ... | | Judge backs Catholic firm over contraception mandate Nov 1st 2012, 17:44 (Reuters) - A Catholic-owned family business in Michigan does not have to comply with the provision of the new U.S. healthcare law that requires private employers to provide employees with health insurance that covers birth control, a federal judge in Detroit has ruled. U.S. District Judge Robert Cleland, in a ruling late Wednesday, temporarily blocked the government from forcing the owner of Weingartz Supply Company, which sells outdoor power equipment, to include contraception in its health coverage of employees. ... | | U.S. Coast Guard: no timetable to reopen NY Harbor's Arthur Kill Nov 1st 2012, 17:39  NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. Coast Guard has no timetable for the reopening of the Arthur Kill waterway, a key stretch of water in the New York Harbor lined with oil logistics infrastructure, a spokesman said on Thursday. The waterway is closed due to a diesel spill from a nearby fuel terminal. Debris also presents a hazard to navigation, Coast Guard Petty Officer Eric Swanson said. (Reporting by Robert Campbell; Editing by Gerald E. McCormick)
| | Massachusetts man sentenced to 17 years after FBI terrorism sting Nov 1st 2012, 17:18  BOSTON (Reuters) - A Massachusetts man was sentenced to 17 years in prison on Thursday for a plot to attack the Pentagon and the U.S. Capitol building in Washington with explosives loaded into remote-control model airplanes. Rezwan Ferdaus, who was arrested in September 2011 and pleaded guilty in July to terrorism-related charges in a deal with prosecutors, told the court he has devoted a lot of time to self-reflection while in jail awaiting sentencing and that he accepted his fate. ...
| | Sandy snarls NY oil logistics, NYMEX gasoline deliveries Nov 1st 2012, 17:09  NEW YORK (Reuters) - Huge logistical problems from power failures and navigational hazards roiled the massive New York Harbor oil hub in the wake of Hurricane Sandy on Thursday, threatening widespread delays in fuel deliveries off the New York Mercantile Exchange's futures contracts. With regional gasoline stations running dry, oil companies are scrambling to resupply their networks but cannot gain access to millions of barrels of fuel trapped in regional terminals. ...
| | U.S. drought shrinking, but not fast enough Nov 1st 2012, 17:08 (Reuters) - Snow and rain and cooler temperatures helped ease suffering in drought-stricken areas of the United States over the last week, though some areas saw conditions grow worse, according to a climatology report issued Thursday. Monster storm Sandy, which devastated the eastern United States with heavy rains and high winds, had little to no impact on the driest areas of the U.S. Heartland. Indeed, the worst level of drought - "exceptional" - expanded in the U.S. South, which includes Oklahoma, Texas, and Arkansas. Roughly 60. ... | | Pentagon airlifts power teams, trucks to New York Nov 1st 2012, 16:41  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Pentagon is airlifting power restoration experts and trucks cross-country, from California to New York, to bolster efforts to assist the millions of people still living in darkness days after superstorm Sandy hit the U.S. Northeast. The C-5 and C-17 military transport planes - designed to carry heavy military equipment, like tanks - began flying from March Air Reserve Base in southern California early on Thursday and were due to start arriving in the afternoon at an Air National Guard Base in Newburgh, New York. ...
| | Mayor says Sandy's death toll in New York City is at least 37 Nov 1st 2012, 16:33  NEW YORK (Reuters) - At least 37 people have been killed in New York City due to the massive storm Sandy, Mayor Michael Bloomberg said on Thursday. Downtown Manhattan and parts of the city's Brooklyn borough remain without electricity, and restoration of power will "take time," Bloomberg said at a briefing. Sunday's New York Marathon remained on schedule and is "not going to redirect any focus" from the city's safety and recovery efforts, he said. The city's schools are scheduled to reopen on Monday. ...
| | Gasoline crunch deepens, NYC taxi firms run out of fuel Nov 1st 2012, 16:08  NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York taxi and car service companies started pulling vehicles off the road on Thursday as the fuel crunch deepened, with the vast majority of storm-hit service stations in the greater New York area now out of gasoline or without power. Outages and fuel shortages have forced many gasoline stations to shut, and now threaten efforts in New York and New Jersey to get back to business after Hurricane Sandy. ...
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