Tennessee woman jailed over abortion attempt freed after a year
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (Reuters) – A Tennessee woman initially accused of attempted murder for unsuccessfully using a coat hanger to try to abort a 24-week-old fetus has been released after spending more than a year in jail, law enforcement officials said Tu…
California police officer not charged in shooting of unarmed black man
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – A police officer was legally justified in shooting dead an unarmed black man in El Cajon, California, in September, and will not be charged criminally, the county’s top prosecutor said on Tuesday.
First of 37 defendants in Baruch College fatal hazing case pleads guilty
HARRISBURG, Pa. (Reuters) – The first of 37 defendants in a 2013 fraternity hazing death of a Baruch College student in Pennsylvania’s Pocono Mountains to go on trial pleaded guilty Tuesday in Monroe County Court of Common Pleas in Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania.
Female athletes sue famed U.S. sports doctor for sexual assault
(Reuters) – Eighteen female athletes on Tuesday sued a sports doctor to Olympian gymnasts, saying he sexually assaulted them under the guise of medical examinations over two decades when most of them were minors.
New York man gets 13 years prison for trying to join al Qaeda
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A New York man was sentenced on Tuesday to 13 years in prison for trying to join the Islamic militant group al Qaeda when he was a high school senior.
Clinton, other former top diplomats mark new diplomacy center
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Four current and former U.S. secretaries of state, including Hillary Clinton, gathered at the State Department on Tuesday to mark the ceremonial opening of a museum on American diplomacy.
Oklahoma woman gets life in prison for killing four at parade
(Reuters) – A woman was sentenced to life in prison on Tuesday after she pleaded no contest to charges she killed four people and injured some 40 others by plowing her car into a crowd at Oklahoma State University’s 2015 homecoming parade, court documents showed.
Christie to battle New Jersey’s drug abuse problem in last year as governor
(Reuters) – New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, trying to redeem himself at home and nationally after a scandal-tarred 2016, said on Tuesday he will make tackling New Jersey’s spiraling drug-abuse epidemic the focus of his last year in office.
San Bernardino gunman’s brother pleads guilty to immigration fraud
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – The brother of the man who with his wife killed 14 people in a shooting rampage at a government building in San Bernardino, California, pleaded guilty to immigration fraud on Tuesday in connection with his sister-in-law’s marria…
FBI looks for source of ‘robocall’ bomb threats to Jewish centers
NEW YORK/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A wave of telephone bomb threats to 16 Jewish community centers in nine U.S. states may have originated from the same number and been placed by at least one individual and an automated calling system, security officials …
