Analysis: If Trayvon Martin family pursues civil case |
- Analysis: If Trayvon Martin family pursues civil case
- Morgan Stanley banker contests cab driver's assault story
- Colorado governor suspends controlled burns after deadly wildfire
- U.S. charges screaming, incoherent JetBlue pilot
- Strauss-Kahn's U.S. legal team argue for civil suit dismissal
- Texas executes man who beat baby boy to death in 2001
- Teen guilty in British tourists' deaths in Florida
- Former defense official gets prison over Afghanistan bribe
- Wife shot dead by husband after dog poops in house: police
- Nurse pleads not guilty to congressional mail threat
- U.S. charges screaming, incoherent JetBlue pilot
- Cargill cuts "pink slime" output, sees hamburger price rise
- Detroit City Council to consider proposed state pact
- Hazing reported at Florida professor's home, police say no charges
- Brooke Astor's will finally settled; $100 mln to charities
- California woman charged with helping WWII veteran commit suicide
- Texas executes man who beat baby boy to death in 2001
- Detroit City Council to vote Monday on state pact: spokeswoman
- Abuse victim testifies in Philadelphia church trial
- Racial strategy by gay marriage foes draws criticism
- College exams work to deter cheating; problems abroad
- Struggling Long Beach, NY cuts spending, sets note sale
- Lawmaker dons "hoodie" in appeal over Florida killing
- Former defense official gets prison over Afghanistan bribe
- Cuban soccer player missing from team at Olympic qualifying
- Lottery fever strikes U.S. with $500 million jackpot
- Controversial Arizona late-term abortion bill advances
- Jet Blue pilot suspended following disturbance on flight
- Body of boy, 4, missing from Boy Scout camp found in river
- Racial strategy by gay marriage foes draws criticism
- Former official gets prison over Afghanistan bribe
- U.S. charges screaming, incoherent JetBlue pilot
- Morgan Stanley banker contests cab driver's assault story
- Nurse pleads not guilty to congressional mail threat
- Former defense official gets prison over Afghanistan bribe
- Colorado governor suspends controlled burns after deadly wildfire
- Detroit City Council to consider proposed state pact
- Texas executes man who beat baby boy to death in 2001
- Cargill cuts "pink slime" output, sees hamburger price rise
- Hazing reported at Florida professor's home, police say no charges
| Analysis: If Trayvon Martin family pursues civil case Posted:
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| Morgan Stanley banker contests cab driver's assault story Posted:
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| Colorado governor suspends controlled burns after deadly wildfire Posted:
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| U.S. charges screaming, incoherent JetBlue pilot Posted:
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| Strauss-Kahn's U.S. legal team argue for civil suit dismissal Posted:
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| Texas executes man who beat baby boy to death in 2001 Posted: AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - A Texas man was executed on Wednesday by lethal injection for beating a 10-month-old boy to death in Dallas in 2001, state officials said. Jesse Hernandez was babysitting 10-month-old Karlos Borja and Karlos' 4-year-old sister while their mother was at work when he assaulted both children. The girl survived injuries to her face and head, but her brother died a week after the beating. Karlos had a skull fracture and bruises on his forehead, temple, abdomen and genitalia, according to autopsy records described by the Dallas Morning News at the time of the trial. ... |
| Teen guilty in British tourists' deaths in Florida Posted:
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| Former defense official gets prison over Afghanistan bribe Posted: ATLANTA (Reuters) - A federal judge in Atlanta sentenced a former Defense Department official on Wednesday to a year and eight months in prison for taking nearly $100,000 in bribes from a company seeking a contract in Afghanistan. Desi Deandre Wade, 40, of Climax, Georgia, was arrested last August after traveling to Atlanta from Afghanistan for the Fire Rescue International Conference, officials said. ... |
| Wife shot dead by husband after dog poops in house: police Posted: DALLAS (Reuters) - A 76-year-old Texas man was charged with murder for shooting his wife and two dogs after one of the animals pooped in the house. Police arrested Michael Stephen Stolz after a five-hour standoff at the man's home in the Dallas suburb of Lewisville late Tuesday. He was charged with murder in the shooting death of his wife, Bernice Stolz, and remained in the Denton County Jail on Wednesday on a $250,000 bond. Stolz told officers he shot his 49-year-old wife and the couple's two dogs after the German Shepherd mix defecated on the floor on Saturday, said Lewisville Police Capt. ... |
| Nurse pleads not guilty to congressional mail threat Posted: PORTLAND, Oregon (Reuters) - A nurse from the Pacific Northwest pleaded not guilty on Wednesday to charges stemming from more than 100 threatening letters he is suspected of sending to members of Congress and the media last month. Christopher Carlson has been jailed without bond since his arrest at his home in Vancouver, Washington, on March 9 in connection with the mass mailing of menacing envelopes postmarked from nearby Portland, Oregon, that contained a white powder later determined to be harmless. ... |
| U.S. charges screaming, incoherent JetBlue pilot Posted:
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| Cargill cuts "pink slime" output, sees hamburger price rise Posted:
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| Detroit City Council to consider proposed state pact Posted: DETROIT (Reuters) - The Detroit City Council will see a draft on Thursday of the proposed agreement with the state of Michigan to stabilize the city's finances, a spokeswoman for Council President Charles Pugh said late Wednesday. Spokeswoman Kirsten Ussery said Detroit Deputy Mayor Kirk Lewis would "walk the council through" the proposed agreement during the meeting and that a formal vote on the pact would likely take place on Monday. ... |
| Hazing reported at Florida professor's home, police say no charges Posted: ORLANDO, Florida (Reuters) - A Florida college roiled by the hazing death of a marching band drum major last fall now faces allegations that other students were previously subjected to hazing at a music professor's home, police said on Wednesday. However, prosecutors have declined to file charges in the incident said to have occurred at a spaghetti party for members and pledges of a band fraternity at Florida A&M University due to a statute of limitations issue, according to a police report. ... |
| Brooke Astor's will finally settled; $100 mln to charities Posted:
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| California woman charged with helping WWII veteran commit suicide Posted: LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A California woman was charged on Wednesday with helping an 86-year-old World War Two veteran she met at Starbucks kill himself by mixing a lethal dose of Oxycontin into his yogurt, prosecutors said. Elizabeth Barrett, 66, was charged with one count of assisted suicide. She was being held in lieu of $25,000 bail pending an arraignment in Orange County Superior Court and faces a maximum prison term of three years if convicted. ... |
| Texas executes man who beat baby boy to death in 2001 Posted: AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - A Texas man was executed on Wednesday by lethal injection for beating a 10-month-old boy to death in Dallas in 2001, according to a spokesman for the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. Jesse Hernandez was babysitting 10-month-old Karlos Borja and Karlos' 4-year-old sister while their mother was at work when he assaulted both children. The girl survived injuries to her face and head, but her brother died a week after the beating. Hernandez, 47, was the fourth person executed this year in Texas and the 12th inmate put to death this year in the United States. ... |
| Detroit City Council to vote Monday on state pact: spokeswoman Posted: DETROIT (Reuters) - The Detroit City Council will see a draft on Thursday of the proposed agreement with the state of Michigan to stabilize the city's finances, a spokeswoman for Council President Charles Pugh said late Wednesday. Spokeswoman Kirsten Ussery said Detroit Deputy Mayor Kirk Lewis would "walk the council through" the proposed agreement during the meeting and that a formal vote on the pact would likely take place on Monday. ... |
| Abuse victim testifies in Philadelphia church trial Posted: PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - The jury in the Philadelphia Archdiocese pedophilia case on Wednesday got a look at the lurid lives of priests that were allegedly ignored by a top church official now on trial for child endangerment. Testimony by a former altar boy who said he was abused and by a priest who stumbled upon his fellow clergy's misdeeds came during the trial of Monsignor William Lynn, the most senior church official to go to trial in the child sex abuse case rocking the Roman Catholic Church. ... |
| Racial strategy by gay marriage foes draws criticism Posted: (Reuters) - A confidential memo saying the best way to fight same-sex marriage is to drive "a wedge between gays and blacks" and manipulate Latinos drew criticism on Wednesday in the weeks ahead of a vote to ban gay marriage in North Carolina. The memo written by the National Organization for Marriage was made public late Monday as part of a lawsuit in Maine, where voters will consider a November referendum to legalize gay marriage. ... |
| College exams work to deter cheating; problems abroad Posted: (Reuters) - U.S. college admissions officers on Wednesday welcomed new rules aimed at deterring cheating on entrance exams, but continued to raise concerns about fraud, especially among foreign applicants. The new regulations require students taking the SAT and ACT, the two most widely used college entrance exams in the United States, to provide a photo of themselves when they register. Test proctors will be asked to check those photos against identification cards students present when they check in for the exams - and against the students themselves. ... |
| Struggling Long Beach, NY cuts spending, sets note sale Posted: (Reuters) - Long Beach, New York, an oceanfront enclave on Long Island, will cut spending by 25 percent and sell $6 million of notes to help reduce a $10.25 million deficit, city officials said on Wednesday. That deficit, for the fiscal year ending on June 30, equals more than 12 percent of all planned spending, city officials estimated in mid-March. City Manager Jack Schnirman, a Democrat who took office in January, has eliminated nine jobs, cut his salary by $8,315 to just under $158,000 and reduced overtime spending by $246,000 from last year. ... |
| Lawmaker dons "hoodie" in appeal over Florida killing Posted:
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| Former defense official gets prison over Afghanistan bribe Posted: ATLANTA (Reuters) - A federal judge in Atlanta sentenced a former Defense Department official on Wednesday to a year and eight months in prison for taking nearly $100,000 in bribes from a company seeking a contract in Afghanistan. Desi Deandre Wade, 40, of Climax, Georgia, was arrested last August after traveling to Atlanta from Afghanistan for the Fire Rescue International Conference, officials said. ... |
| Cuban soccer player missing from team at Olympic qualifying Posted: NASHVILLE, Tennessee (Reuters) - A local media reported on Wednesday that a Cuban soccer player who may be trying to defect left the team while it was in Nashville, Tennessee, but U.S. federal and local authorities declined comment on his location. The Cuban defensive player, Yosmel de Armas, was not with the team when it left a downtown hotel Tuesday, according to Nashville television station WZTV Fox-17. A player on the team told WZTV that De Armas had left the team. ... |
| Lottery fever strikes U.S. with $500 million jackpot Posted: LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Lottery fever spread across the United States on Wednesday with people in more than 40 states buying tickets for the Mega Millions jackpot that has reached an all-time record of $500 million, officials said. The cash prize, which officials said could be the biggest in the world, was reached after nobody matched all six numbers in Tuesday's regular draw. The jackpot could rise higher as more people buy tickets for Friday's drawing. ... |
| Controversial Arizona late-term abortion bill advances Posted: PHOENIX (Reuters) - A controversial Arizona bill that bans most abortions performed after 20 weeks of pregnancy moved closer to becoming law on Wednesday in the Republican-controlled state legislature after clearing the state Senate. The bill, which would still allow abortions after 20 weeks in the case of medical emergency, was passed by a mostly party-line 20-to-10 vote in the Senate on Tuesday. Only a small number of abortions are performed in Arizona after 20 weeks. ... |
| Jet Blue pilot suspended following disturbance on flight Posted:
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| Body of boy, 4, missing from Boy Scout camp found in river Posted: LITTLE ROCK, Ark (Reuters) - A 4-year-old boy missing since the weekend from a Boy Scout camp in the Ozark Mountains' foothills was found dead on Wednesday, law enforcement officials said. Caleb Linn traveled with his aunt to a cleanup day at Kia Kima Scout Reservation on Saturday near Hardy, Arkansas, when he disappeared. The wooded 900-acre camp is about 160 miles north of Little Rock near the Missouri border. On Tuesday, searchers found the boy's shirt and undershirt in the South Fork of the Spring River after cadaver dogs alerted them, according to authorities. ... |
| Racial strategy by gay marriage foes draws criticism Posted:
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| Former official gets prison over Afghanistan bribe Posted: ATLANTA (Reuters) - A federal judge in Atlanta sentenced a former Defense Department official on Wednesday to a year and eight months in prison for taking nearly $100,000 in bribes from a company seeking a contract in Afghanistan. Desi Deandre Wade, 40, of Climax, Georgia, was arrested in August after traveling to Atlanta from Afghanistan for the Fire Rescue International Conference, officials said. ... |
| U.S. charges screaming, incoherent JetBlue pilot Posted:
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| Morgan Stanley banker contests cab driver's assault story Posted:
|
| Nurse pleads not guilty to congressional mail threat Posted: PORTLAND, Oregon (Reuters) - A nurse from the Pacific Northwest pleaded not guilty on Wednesday to charges stemming from more than 100 threatening letters he is suspected of sending to members of Congress and the media last month. Christopher Carlson has been jailed without bond since his arrest at his home in Vancouver, Washington, on March 9 in connection with the mass mailing of menacing envelopes postmarked from nearby Portland, Oregon, that contained a white powder later determined to be harmless. ... |
| Former defense official gets prison over Afghanistan bribe Posted: ATLANTA (Reuters) - A federal judge in Atlanta sentenced a former Defense Department official on Wednesday to a year and eight months in prison for taking nearly $100,000 in bribes from a company seeking a contract in Afghanistan. Desi Deandre Wade, 40, of Climax, Georgia, was arrested last August after traveling to Atlanta from Afghanistan for the Fire Rescue International Conference, officials said. ... |
| Colorado governor suspends controlled burns after deadly wildfire Posted:
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| Detroit City Council to consider proposed state pact Posted: DETROIT (Reuters) - The Detroit City Council will see a draft on Thursday of the proposed agreement with the state of Michigan to stabilize the city's finances, a spokeswoman for Council President Charles Pugh said late Wednesday. Spokeswoman Kirsten Ussery said Detroit Deputy Mayor Kirk Lewis would "walk the council through" the proposed agreement during the meeting and that a formal vote on the pact would likely take place on Monday. ... |
| Texas executes man who beat baby boy to death in 2001 Posted: AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - A Texas man was executed on Wednesday by lethal injection for beating a 10-month-old boy to death in Dallas in 2001, state officials said. Jesse Hernandez was babysitting 10-month-old Karlos Borja and Karlos' 4-year-old sister while their mother was at work when he assaulted both children. The girl survived injuries to her face and head, but her brother died a week after the beating. Karlos had a skull fracture and bruises on his forehead, temple, abdomen and genitalia, according to autopsy records described by the Dallas Morning News at the time of the trial. ... |
| Cargill cuts "pink slime" output, sees hamburger price rise Posted:
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| Hazing reported at Florida professor's home, police say no charges Posted: ORLANDO, Florida (Reuters) - A Florida college roiled by the hazing death of a marching band drum major last fall now faces allegations that other students were previously subjected to hazing at a music professor's home, police said on Wednesday. However, prosecutors have declined to file charges in the incident said to have occurred at a spaghetti party for members and pledges of a band fraternity at Florida A&M University due to a statute of limitations issue, according to a police report. ... |
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