Illinois attorney general asks judge to stop paying workers
(Reuters) – The attorney general of Illinois asked a judge on Thursday to lift an order requiring state workers to be paid during the state’s record 19-month budget impasse in hopes of putting pressure on lawmakers to pass a spending plan.
San Bernardino massacre yields second immigration fraud conviction
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – The Russian-born wife of the California man accused of supplying guns used by another couple who killed 14 people in San Bernardino pleaded guilty on Thursday to federal immigration fraud charges, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said…
Florida airport shooting suspect indicted on 22 criminal counts
TAMPA, Fla. (Reuters) – A federal grand jury has indicted on 22 criminal counts an Iraq war veteran suspected of killing five people in a mass shooting at a Florida airport this month, U.S. prosecutors said on Thursday.
Georgia police chief to apologize for black man’s 1940 lynching
ATLANTA (Reuters) – The police chief of a small Georgia city will publicly apologize on Thursday for the lynching of a young black man almost 77 years ago, an official gesture historians say is rare in the U.S. South.
Chicago school audit pegs FY 2016 deficit at $487 million
CHICAGO (Reuters) – The Chicago Public Schools (CPS) ended its last fiscal year with a bigger-than-expected deficit and will need to find new revenue or make major spending cuts in order to sustain operations over the long term, according to the distri…
Actor Shia LaBeouf arrested in New York anti-Trump protest
(Reuters) – Actor Shia LaBeouf was arrested early on Thursday after a scuffle outside a New York museum where he was chanting “He will not divide us” during a live-streamed protest against President Donald Trump, police said.
NY man linked to Islamic State gets 20 years prison for New Year’s Eve plot
(Reuters) – An upstate New York man was sentenced on Thursday to 20 years in prison after pleading guilty to conspiring to provide material support to Islamic State, in connection with his alleged role in preparing a New Year’s Eve attack in 2015 at a …
Killer named in decades-old New Hampshire quadruple murder
CONCORD, N.H. (Reuters) – A man convicted of killing a California woman also murdered a woman and three girls in New Hampshire and may have had more victims, New Hampshire authorities said on Thursday as they unveiled new details about a decades-old co…
Police probe reported rape at Kansas University basketball dorm
(Reuters) – University of Kansas police are investigating the reported rape of a 16-year-old girl last month at the dormitory housing the college’s highly ranked men’s basketball team, officials said on Thursday.
Atlanta’s ‘Spaghetti Junction’ ranked as No.1 truck bottleneck in U.S.
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The most-congested bottleneck for truck traffic in the United States is a suburban Atlanta intersection known as “Spaghetti Junction,” where the average vehicle crawls at less than 20 mph during the peak of the afternoon rush, a ne…
