[U.S.] Woman Falls On Subway Tracks Early New Year's Day, Dies

Woman Falls On Subway Tracks Early New Year's Day, Dies
http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/new-years-day-subway-death-accident-2-train-34th-street-185369562.html
NEW YORK -- New York City police say a young woman stumbling around on a Manhattan subway platform not far from Times Square fell onto the tracks and was killed by a train.

Pennsylvania governor to sue NCAA over Penn State sanctions
http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/01/01/3163759/governor-to-sue-ncaa-over-penn.html
By Dave Warner. PHILADELPHIA | Tue Jan 1, 2013 7:38pm EST. PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - Pennsylvania Governor Tom Corbett said on Tuesday he will file a federal lawsuit against the NCAA over sanctions it levied against Pennsylvania State University in ...

Small Businesses Calculate Cost of Minimum Wage Increase
http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Minimum-wage-gap-grows-wider-between-states-4157971.php
NIXA, Mo. -- The new year will bring a boost to the paychecks of Missouri's minimum wage workers. The minimum wage is increasing from $7.25 to $7.35 starting today.

Colorado: First Marijuana Club Breaks Ground, but Closes a Day Later
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/members-only-marijuana-clubs-pop-colorado-pot-legal-article-1.1230878
The nation's first known legal recreational marijuana club has already closed. The White Horse Inn in the town of Del Norte closed Tuesday, a day after its opening, because of a landlord dispute.

Temperatures set to plunge, no new snow expected
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/2013/01/01/can-new-year-polar-bear-dip.html
Pittsburgh Police officer and Polar Bear Plunge organizer Carlos Schrader, center, dives backward into the Monongahela River at Mon Wharf during the annual New Year's Day Polar Bear Plunge.

Maryland trolley company halts wedding rides after gay marriage law
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-gay-marriage-20121229,0,1784522.story
ANNAPOLIS, Md. - A company whose old-fashioned trolleys are iconic in the city's wedding scene has abandoned the nuptial industry rather than serve same-sex couples.

Suspect held in fatal shooting at California fireworks show
http://sacramento.cbslocal.com/2013/01/01/friends-gather-in-old-sacramento-to-mourn-shooting-victim/
(CNN) -- A 22-year-old man was in custody as a suspect in a shooting during a New Year's Eve fireworks show in Sacramento, California, where two people were fatally shot and three were wounded, police said Tuesday.

North Carolina governor pardons 'Wilmington 10′
http://www.sfgate.com/news/crime/article/Gov-Perdue-sign-pardons-for-Wilmington-10-4157848.php
Members of the ?Wilmington 10? hold a brief communion service before boarding a prison bus on Feb. 2, 1976 in Burgaw, North Carolina, as they surrendered to start prison terms on convictions growing out of 1971 racial disorders in Wilmington, N.C.

Putnam vows to withhold gun data
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2255891/Journal-News-hires-armed-guards-patrol-headquarters.html?ito=feeds-newsxml
Putnam County officials, who say they will refuse a newspaper's request to release the names and addresses of residents with pistol permits, would break state law by withholding the data, a state official said.

8-year-old girl dies from sledding injuries
http://www.mynews3.com/mostpopular/story/8-year-old-girl-dies-from-sledding-injuries/TNHDV_o9SUWHgznBeRfTfQ.cspx
LAS VEGAS (KSNV)- -- Las Vegas Metro is investigating a sledding accident that took the life of an 8-year-old girl. Metro responded to the scene of the accident on Foxtail Mountain in the Mount Charleston Recreation area just after 12 p.m.