Fri, May 18, 2012
Police arrest suspect in Mississippi highway shootings
TUPELO, Mississippi (Reuters) - Mississippi police have arrested a man they believe is responsible for two highway killings this month, the Department of Public Safety ...
Fri, May 18, 2012
Analysis: U.S. cities wrestle with universities for cash
By Hilary Russ
NEW YORK (Reuters) - In 1978, after New York City had barely escaped bankruptcy, Mayor Ed Koch went looking for cash from ...
Thu, May 17, 2012
Protests after Houston cop cleared of beating black teen
By Deborah Quinn Hensel
HOUSTON (Reuters) - The day after an all-white jury acquitted a former Houston police officer for his role in the beating ...
Thu, May 17, 2012
Oklahoma park accused of letting kids play with tigers
By Steve Olafson
OKLAHOMA CITY (Reuters) - The Humane Society of the United States is accusing an Oklahoma exotic animal park of allowing children to ...
Thu, May 17, 2012
Anti-war protesters march at Obama campaign headquarters
By Mary Wisniewski and Eric Johnson
CHICAGO (Reuters) - A small group of anti-war demonstrators staged a peaceful "die in" on Thursday at President Barack ...
Thu, May 17, 2012
Storied battleship making final port call in Los Angeles
By Alex Dobuzinskis
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The USS Iowa, which ferried the late President Franklin D. Roosevelt across the perilous Atlantic waters to a ...
Thu, May 17, 2012
Parents of slain Chinese students sue California university
By Alex Dobuzinskis
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The parents of two Chinese graduate students slain near the University of Southern California last month have filed ...
Thu, May 17, 2012
New York state says jobless rate steady at 8.5 pct
(Reuters) - New York state's unemployment rate was unchanged in April from March at 8.5 percent but the state has won back all ...
Thu, May 17, 2012
Mississippi high court declines to rehear pardon case
By Emily Le Coz
TUPELO, Miss (Reuters) - Mississippi's high court on Thursday rejected a motion by its state attorney general to reconsider its ...
Thu, May 17, 2012
Kansas governor apologizes for century of segregation
By Kevin Murphy
KANSAS CITY, Kansas (Reuters) - Kansas Governor Sam Brownback apologized on Thursday to blacks for segregation in his state in the last ...
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