Large truck causes highway havoc during high-speed chase in Texas
(Reuters) – A stolen tractor-trailer truck caused six accidents and closed a major interstate in Arlington, Texas for hours as it weaved in and out of traffic in a high-speed chase on Friday afternoon, police and media said.
New York attorney general looking at Eric Trump charity’s payouts
(Reuters) – New York’s attorney general is looking into a report that the Eric Trump Foundation funneled more than $1 million from charity golf tournaments into President Donald Trump’s business, a spokesman for the attorney general said on Friday.
Florida governor signs bolstered ‘stand your ground’ law
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (Reuters) – Florida Governor Rick Scott signed amended “stand your ground” legislation on Friday, making it easier for defendants in the state to successfully claim they were protecting themselves when they commit violence.
Virginia appeals re-sentencing ruling for D.C. sniper Malvo
(Reuters) – Virginia’s attorney general on Friday appealed a May federal court ruling tossing out life prison terms for one of the two men convicted of a 2002 deadly shooting spree in Washington, D.C.
‘Trial of a lifetime’ plays out in tiny South Dakota town
ELK POINT, S.D. (Reuters) – In this rural outpost of just over 1,900 residents, a local college student has become a courtroom sketch artist, trailers on Main Street are ersatz offices for a major law firm and members of an agricultural youth club are …
Kansas man charged with U.S. hate crime for shooting Indian men
(Reuters) – A Kansas man, accused of shouting “get out of my country” as he shot dead one Indian man and injured another at a bar, faces federal hate crime and firearms charges, the U.S. Justice Department said on Friday.
NSA backtracks on sharing number of Americans caught in warrant-less spying
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – For more than a year, U.S. intelligence officials reassured lawmakers they were working to calculate and reveal roughly how many Americans have their digital communications vacuumed up under a warrant-less surveillance law intend…
U.S. court upholds $11 million verdict against Toyota over fatal crash
(Reuters) – A federal appeals court on Friday upheld an $11 million verdict against Toyota Motor Corp over a fatal 2006 car crash in Minnesota, which a jury found was caused by an accelerator defect in a 1996 Camry.
Civil rights groups sue Missouri to stop voter ID law
(Reuters) – Civil rights groups have sued Missouri to prevent its new voter identification law from interfering with a local special election next month, saying the measure could disenfranchise voters.
F-35 jets grounded at U.S. Air Force base in Arizona: officials
(Reuters) – The stealthy F-35 fighter jets made by Lockheed Martin Corp were temporarily grounded at a U.S. Air Force base in Arizona on Friday because of irregularities in pilots’ oxygen supplies, an Air Force spokesman said.
