Iowa top court rejects 72-hour waiting period for abortions
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Iowa’s Supreme Court on Friday rejected a 72-hour waiting period for abortions signed into law last year, ruling it was unconstitutional.
Court throws out Time Warner Cable $229,500 penalty for 153 robocalls
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A federal appeals court on Friday threw out a $229,500 award that a Texas woman had won from Time Warner Cable Inc for harassing her with 153 robocalls after she told it to stop.
Man admits making bomb threat targeting Florida mosque
(Reuters) – A 26-year-old Florida man has admitted obstructing the free exercise of religious beliefs through the threatened use of a dangerous weapon and explosive after he called in a bomb threat to a mosque, federal prosecutors said on Friday.
Suspect charged with five murders in shotgun attack on Maryland newsroom
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (Reuters) – A Maryland man was charged with multiple counts of murder on Friday, a day after police say he rampaged through a newsroom in Annapolis with a shotgun and killed five people in one of the deadliest attacks on journalists in U…
Suspect charged after five killed in shotgun attack on newspaper newsroom
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (Reuters) – A man was charged with murder on Friday, local media in Maryland said, after a gunman carried out a rampage through a newsroom in Annapolis, with a shotgun, killing five people in one of the deadliest attacks on journalists i…
Gunman held, newspaper publishes a day after five killed in newsroom
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (Reuters) – A gunman who blasted his way through a newsroom in Annapolis, Maryland, with a shotgun, killing at least five people in one of the deadliest attacks on journalists in U.S. history, was in custody on Friday pending charges, au…
Salvadoran father reunited with daughter after month-long separation
SAN LUIS TALPA, El Salvador (Reuters) – Salvadoran fisherman Arnovis Guidos was reunited with his six-year-old daughter late on Thursday a month after the girl was taken from him by U.S. authorities, leaving him with no idea where she was.
Wildfires rage in Colorado as weather conditions deteriorate
DENVER, Colo. (Reuters) – At least a dozen wildfires were raging on Friday in drought-stricken portions of Colorado where hundreds of residents have been evacuated as a wave of prime wildfire weather conditions moves through the U.S. West.
Protestors, lawmaker arrested in Senate building sit-in over immigration
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Some 600 protestors were arrested during a clangorous occupation of a U.S. Senate office building in Washington on Thursday, where they decried U.S. President Donald Trump’s “zero- tolerance” stance on illegal immigration.
Maryland shooting suspect battled newspaper in court and lost
(Reuters) – The 38-year-old man suspected of killing five people at the offices of a Maryland newspaper group on Thursday had a long-running feud with Capital Gazette, attacking the Annapolis-based family of publications in the courts and on social med…
