Court overturns Indiana death sentence in ‘stun belt’ case
(Reuters) – A federal appeals court on Friday threw out the death sentence for a man forced to wear a “stun belt” during the penalty phase of his trial for a 1996 triple murder in Indiana.
Kansas City IRS staff sickened after contact with suspicious package: media
(Reuters) – About 10 people at a Kansas City, Missouri, IRS building were sickened with symptoms including chest pains and vomiting after they came into contact on Friday with a suspicious package delivered to their office, local news reports said.
U.S. investigators focus on gas meter in fatal Minneapolis school blast
(Reuters) – U.S. safety investigators on Friday began their weeklong inquiry into a deadly explosion at a Christian private school in Minneapolis, including examining whether workers moving a gas meter could have caused the blast.
U.S. judge dismisses lawsuit over Buffett’s See’s ‘kosher’ chocolate
(Reuters) – A U.S. judge has dismissed a proposed class action lawsuit claiming that See’s Candies, a unit of Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc, sold Valentine’s Day chocolates that were mislabeled as kosher.
U.S. court tosses murder conviction of ex-Blackwater guard
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A federal appeals court on Friday threw out the murder conviction of an ex-Blackwater security guard and ordered three of his former colleagues to be re-sentenced in the high-profile prosecution stemming from the massacre of 14 u…
Rwandan who sought asylum after genocide faces U.S. fraud charge
BOSTON (Reuters) – A Rwandan man who sought asylum in the United States claiming he fled the African nation’s 1994 genocide was charged by U.S. prosecutors on Friday with lying about having been part of the political party that led the killing.
Fires extinguished after CSX train derailment in Pennsylvania
(Reuters) – Firefighters on Friday extinguished a string of sulfur fires that broke out in a small Pennsylvania town after dozens of CSX Corp rail cars careened off the tracks, the company said, but residents remained under evacuation orders.
Immigrants denied credit by Wells Fargo may sue bank, judge says
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Young immigrants denied credit by Wells Fargo Bank because they are not permanent U.S. residents can sue the bank under a post-Civil War law barring discrimination on the basis of immigration status, a federal judge ruled.
Wells Fargo to pay U.S. $108 million over veterans’ loans
(Reuters) – Wells Fargo & Co will pay the U.S. government $108 million to settle a whistleblower lawsuit claiming it charged military veterans hidden fees to refinance their mortgages, and concealed the fees when applying for federal loan guarantees.
Nebraska regulators block testimony ahead of Keystone XL hearings
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Nebraska regulators weighing the fate of TransCanada Corp’s proposed Keystone XL pipeline have ruled that opponents of the project cannot use one of their best arguments against it in final hearings next week: that America does not need the oil.
