Gunman who killed Indian man in Kansas bar pleads guilty to federal charges
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A Kansas man who shot and killed an Indian software engineer and injured two others in February 2017 pleaded guilty on Monday in federal court to hate crime and firearm charges, the Justice Department said.
Deadly acid cloud rises over Hawaii as lava streams into ocean
PAHOA, Hawaii (Reuters) – Deadly white clouds of acid and fine shards of glass boiled into the sky over Hawaii on Monday as lava from the Kilauea volcano flowed into the ocean, creating a new hazard from a more than two-week eruption.
Pennsylvania sues over troubled Harrisburg incinerator bond deals
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf’s administration on Monday sued an array of financial, legal and other professional firms over their involvement in a 15-year-old incinerator upgrade project that nearly bankrupted the state capital, …
Companies win big at U.S. top court on worker class-action curbs
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court delivered a blow to the rights of workers on Monday by allowing companies to require them to sign away their ability to bring class-action claims against management, agreements already in place for about 25…
Same grief, different outcomes: Texas mulls school safety
(This version of the May 21st story corrects first paragraph to say fourth-deadliest school shooting, not fourth deadly school shooting)
Pennsylvania sues over troubled 2003 Harrisburg incinerator deal
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf’s administration on Monday sued an array of financial, legal and other professional firms over their involvement in a 2003 incinerator upgrade project that nearly bankrupted the state’s capital city, …
Ex-Vanderbilt football player in U.S. rape case gets suspended sentence
NASHVILLE (Reuters) – A former Vanderbilt University football player charged in the 2013 rape of an unconscious female student in a university dormitory accepted a plea deal on Monday that allows him to avoid jail while the other three men in the case …
Texas Governor to hold talks on school violence after massacre
(Reuters) – Texas Governor Greg Abbott on Monday was set to hold a series of meetings on how to combat school violence, three days after a 17-year-old killed 10 people in the fourth-deadliest mass shooting at a public school in modern U.S. history.
U.S. top court backs companies over worker class-action claims
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court delivered a blow to the rights of workers on Monday by allowing companies to require them to sign away their ability to bring class-action claims against management, agreements already in place for about 25…
U.S. top court takes up challenge to Virginia uranium mining ban
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday agreed to decide whether states have the right to ban uranium mining for public health reasons in a dispute over a moratorium Virginia put in place on the radioactive metal in 1982.
