Curbs on excessive force proposed for Cleveland police
CLEVELAND (Reuters) – Cleveland police would face new limits on the use of force under proposals issued on Thursday by a group charged with monitoring the city’s police department, after a U.S. Justice Department report highlighted abuses by some of i…
Ex-San Francisco 49er charged with assault of elderly man, son
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Former San Francisco 49er Bruce Miller was charged on Thursday with seven felonies including assault with a deadly weapon, described by prosecutors as a cane, in connection with a fight that sent an elderly man and the man’s s…
Two North Carolina men arrested over alleged hack of CIA chief
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Two North Carolina men were arrested on Thursday for allegedly hacking several senior U.S. government officials as part of a group called “Crackas With Attitude,” according to documents filed in federal court on Thursday.
Disability rights groups seek intervention on Wisconsin teen’s plans to die
CHICAGO (Reuters) – Disability rights groups said on Thursday they have asked child protective services to intervene in the case of a severely disabled Wisconsin teenager who suffers chronic pain from her disease and wants to die.
Prosecutors ask judge to jail ex-Boston mobster charged in witness slay
BOSTON (Reuters) – Federal prosecutors argued on Thursday that an alleged Boston ex-mobster accused of the 1993 murder of a man whose body was found earlier this year should be jailed until trial because his alleged victim was targeted because he was a…
Police, FBI spend second day digging for clues to missing California student
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Police and FBI agents spent a second day on Thursday digging at the edge of a California university campus for the remains of a student who went missing 20 years ago while walking to her dormitory.
New York to allow late-term abortions for health at-risk women
NEW YORK (Reuters) – New York will allow late-term abortions for women whose pregnancies endanger their health, a move that brings the state into federal compliance and ends decades of confusion faced by patients and providers of the procedure, state o…
U.S. coal miners hit Congress to rally for pension protection
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – About 10,000 retired coal miners and their families descended on the U.S. Congress on Thursday to pressure lawmakers to pass stalled legislation that would prevent 22,000 of them from losing their pension and health benefits as s…
Closing private detention centers for migrants would pose problems: U.S. agents
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Federal immigration agents have raised concerns about the U.S. government possibly ending its use of private detention centers used to detain undocumented migrants, a potential policy shift that some say could damage the United S…
Expanded U.S. habitat protection ordered for rare lynx
SALMON, Idaho (Reuters) – A federal judge ordered U.S. wildlife managers on Wednesday to enlarge habitat protections in Idaho, Montana and Colorado for the Canada lynx, a rare wild cat that roams the Rockies and mountain forests of several other states…
