Hornets co-owner hits out at All Star Game move
(Reuters) – Hornets co-owner Felix Sabates has blasted the NBA’s decision to move the 2017 All Star Game out of Charlotte, North Carolina due to its objections to a state law decried as discriminatory against the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community.
Dallas police job applications surge after fatal ambush attacks
DALLAS (Reuters) – The Dallas Police Department, which was struggling to recruit officers, has seen a surge in job applications after the ambush shooting this month that killed five officers and brought global attention to the Texas city, officials sai…
Alaska’s top court rejects parental notice for abortions
SEATTLE (Reuters) – An Alaska law requiring doctors to notify the parents of girls under the age of 18 seeking an abortion violates the state’s constitution and cannot be enforced, the state’s top court ruled on Friday.
Virginia’s top court rules against move to restore felons’ voting rights
RICHMOND, Virginia (Reuters) – The Virginia Supreme Court ruled on Friday against Democratic Governor Terry McAuliffe’s order restoring voting rights to more than 200,000 felons who completed their sentences, court documents show.
U.S. accuses three more of multimillion-dollar text message scam
NEW YORK (Reuters) – U.S. prosecutors on Friday unveiled an indictment against three men for engaging in a multimillion-dollar scheme to defraud consumers by charging unsuspecting mobile phone users for unwanted text messages.
California governor signs bill to require registration of ‘ghost guns’
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – California Governor Jerry Brown signed into law on Friday a bill to require anyone planning to build a homemade firearm to first obtain a serial number for the weapon and submit to a background check, his office said in a statem…
Funeral for slain Baton Rouge police officer draws thousands
BATON ROUGE, La. (Reuters) – Police officers from across the United States were among several thousand mourners gathered at a church in Louisiana’s state capital on Friday for the first of three funerals for policemen killed this week by an Iraq war ve…
Pennsylvania lawyer gets six months in prison for insider trading
(Reuters) – A former partner at the law firm Fox Rothschild was sentenced on Friday to six months in prison for trading on inside information that a client at his law firm was about to announce a merger, prosecutors said.
First baby with Zika-related birth defect born in New York City
(Reuters) – New York City has reported its first case of a baby born with the birth defect microcephaly related to exposure to the Zika virus, health officials said on Friday.
New York pizzeria owner, son guilty in U.S. drug case tied to Italian mafia
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A New York pizzeria owner and his son were found guilty on Friday of importing over 50 kilograms of cocaine into the United States from Costa Rica, in a case born out of a probe into an Italian organized crime group’s drug traffick…
