  | | | | | NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York Democrats on Tuesday are choosing their candidate to succeed Mayor Michael Bloomberg in a primary election that has featured a scandal over lewd pictures, an accusation of racism, a council leader vying to be the city's first female, openly gay mayor and a see-sawing list of front runners. | | |  | | | | | NEW YORK (Reuters) - Korey Kormick, 29, has not had health insurance for at least a decade. His job, as a contract employee directing chess tournaments and coaching kids in the fundamentals of the game, doesn't offer it, and he hasn't been able to afford coverage on the individual market. | | | | | | | OLYMPIA, Washington (Reuters) - A U.S. adoptive mother accused of starving her 13-year-old Ethiopian-born daughter and locking her outside in the cold, where she died from exposure, was found guilty of homicide on Monday in Washington state. | | | | | | | (Reuters) - A Montana woman was charged on Monday with killing her husband of eight days by pushing him off a cliff at Glacier National Park during an argument and after expressing doubts about the marriage, court records show. | | | |  | | | | | LAKE MARY, Florida (Reuters) - George Zimmerman, the Florida man who was acquitted of murder two months ago in the shooting of unarmed black teenager Trayvon Martin, was questioned on Monday by police after his estranged wife called 911 saying he threatened her with a gun. | | | |  | | | | | SACRAMENTO (Reuters) - California lawmakers plan to ask a panel of federal judges to reconsider an end-of-year deadline to ease prison overcrowding, saying the state could spend money to shrink inmate numbers through rehabilitation if only given more time. | | | |  | | | | | (Reuters) - Hawaiian Governor Neil Abercrombie called on Monday for a special legislative session next month to pass a bill that would legalize gay marriage in the strongly Democratic state that already allows same-sex civil unions. | | | | | | | (Reuters) - A U.S. federal judge ruled Monday that a task force headed by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police breached an agreement with a North Carolina-based cruise ship company that was to house government security forces during the 2010 Winter Olympics Games in Vancouver. | | | | | | FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Daimler said it saw no need for a German-style works council at its plant in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, rebuffing unions' efforts to gain influence over foreign-owned U.S. auto plants. | | | | | | | DETROIT (Reuters) - A convict accused of stabbing a Detroit deputy sheriff several times in the neck with a plastic comb, stealing his uniform and vanishing from a courthouse was arrested late on Monday after a large-scale manhunt, authorities said. | | | | |  |  | | | A daily digest of breaking business news, coverage of the US economy, major corporate news and the financial markets. Register Today | | |  | |  | | | The latest Reuters articles on M&A, IPOs, private equity, hedge funds and regulatory updates delivered to your inbox each day. Register Today | | | | | | » MORE NEWSLETTERS | |
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