News of the day from across the nation, April 6

The mayor of Atlanta is joining other city and state officials in banning taxpayer-funded travel to North Carolina over its new law preventing specific antidiscrimination rules for gay and transgender people for public accommodations and restroom use.

Energy officials say a natural gas well blowout last year that crippled a major energy supply for Southern California could lead to blackouts this summer.

The Energy Commission and other agencies released a draft plan that calls for more than a dozen measures, including conservation by residents, to prevent power outages.

Investigators were headed Tuesday to the scene of a sightseeing helicopter crash that killed five people near the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in eastern Tennessee.

The Milford, Conn., sandwich chain says its new menu boards with calorie counts are already rolling out around the country and should be up in all 27,000 of its U.S. stores by April 11.

The decision to forge ahead comes as restaurant chains have awaited the Food and Drug Administration’s final guidance and enforcement of a rule requiring food sellers with 20 or more locations to post the information.