Archive RSS Feed: Reuters US

New York City sued for harassing photographers

NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York City police officers need better training to distinguish between law-abiding citizens who snap pictures of city landmarks and those suspected of plotting terrorism, a lawsuit filed on Thursday by the New York Civil Liberties Union said.

Coast Guard cocaine seizures hit $4.7 bln record

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The US Coast Guard on Thursday announced record annual cocaine seizures worth more than $4.7 billion and said trafficking in the illicit drug appears to be shifting from the Caribbean to the Pacific.

Official in Blackwater probe quits

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - State Department Inspector General Howard Krongard, under scrutiny for his brother's link to the Blackwater security firm, has decided to resign, US officials said on Friday.

Katrina attorney Scruggs runs into own legal woes

JACKSON, Mississippi (Reuters) - A high-profile Mississippi lawyer who made a name battling powerful corporations, including insurance companies in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, is facing his own disaster after being indicted on allegations he tried to bribe a judge.

Omaha massacre unlikely to alter gun laws

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Once again there has been a mass shooting in the United States, this time in a Nebraska shopping mall. Once again there is no national outcry for gun control.

P&G says Pringles not made with banned additive

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Pringles potato chips are not made with an additive banned in China, Procter & Gamble Co, which markets the potato chips, said on Friday.

Policeman's widow seeks execution of Abu Jamal

PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - More than a quarter century after the murder of her policeman husband, Maureen Faulkner wants the man convicted of the crime executed.

Historic split for U.S. Episcopals

FRESNO, California (Reuters) - An entire California diocese of the US Episcopal Church voted to secede on Saturday in a historic split after years of disagreement over the church's expanding support for gay and women's rights.

Six Las Vegas high school students shot, wounded

LAS VEGAS (Reuters) - Six Las Vegas high school students were shot and wounded, two of them seriously, on Tuesday in what police said was a schoolyard argument over a girl that spilled into the streets.

Sears to phase out PVC plastic in products and packaging

ATLANTA (Reuters) - Retailer Sears Holdings Corp said on Wednesday that it would reduce over time the use of polyvinyl chloride, or PVC, in its packaging and products.