NEW YORK (Reuters) - Thousands of workers who suffered health problems after the September 11 attacks in 2001 have reached a settlement worth up to $657.5 million with an insurer representing the city of New York, city officials and lawyers said on Thursday.
Thousands of firefighters, police, contractors and others ...More
ANKENY, Iowa (Reuters) - A coalition of family farmers, consumers and other critics of corporate agriculture on Thursday called on the U.S. government to crack down on what they see as unfair consolidation of the nation's food system into the hands of a few multinationals.
Chanting "bust up big ...More
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) - A schoolteacher found dead this week near a remote Alaska village was probably killed by wolves, Alaska State Troopers said on Thursday.
The fatal attack could be the first on U.S. soil in more than 50 years. Attacks by wild wolves, rather than wolves kept as ...More
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The wife and daughter of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid were seriously injured on Thursday when their vehicle was rear-ended by a truck on a highway, the senator's office said.
Reid's wife, Landra, 69, was in serious condition with a broken back, neck and nose at ...More
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Many states have used funds from the $863 billion U.S. economic stimulus plan to help give a rising number of poor families emergency cash assistance, the Government Accountability Office said on Thursday.
From June 2008 to June 2009, the number of families receiving Temporary Assistance to Needy ...More
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States boosted its investigation of tax and other financial crimes by about 10 percent last year, tax authorities reported on Thursday, amid an increased push to pursue wealthy tax cheats.
The Internal Revenue Service said it started a total of 4,121 criminal investigations in 2009 ...More
NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo on Thursday said he "removed himself" from two ethics probes of state Governor David Paterson.
Cuomo, who is expected to run for governor, named Judith Kaye, the state's former top judge, to oversee inquiries into whether Paterson, a fellow Democrat ...More
DENVER (Reuters) - A member of a Denver-area Crips street gang was convicted on Thursday in the 2007 murder of Denver Broncos football player Darrent Williams after an altercation at a local nightclub.
Willie D. Clark, 26, was convicted of first-degree murder in the drive-by shooting death of Williams, who was ...More
DETROIT/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Unprecedented discounts after a series of damaging recalls boosted Toyota Motor Corp's U.S. sales in early March, as U.S. regulators weighed new auto safety measures.
Toyota's U.S. sales surged by nearly 50 percent in the first eight days of March compared with ...More
NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo on Thursday said he would make an announcement at 3:45 p.m. EST on his investigation of the state police and the governor's office.
Governor David Paterson asked the Democratic attorney general to investigate whether he or the state ...More
