Ex-New York City jail guard union boss pleads not guilty to bribery
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The former union leader for New York City’s prison guards and a hedge fund financier pleaded not guilty on Friday to engaging in a bribery scheme in a case linked to a widening federal municipal-corruption investigation.
Chicago police officer shot, suspect killed in exchange of gunfire
CHICAGO (Reuters) – A Chicago police officer was wounded and a suspect was fatally shot on Thursday when police responded to a man acting erratically on the city’s south side, police said.
NBA pulls All-Star Game from Charlotte over transgender law
(Reuters) – The NBA is moving its 2017 All-Star Game out of Charlotte, North Carolina, given its objections to a state law decried as discriminatory against the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community, the league on Thursday.
J&J unit Acclarent to pay $18 million to settle false claims case
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Johnson & Johnson Inc subsidiary Acclarent Inc., a California-based medical device manufacturer, has agreed to pay $18 million to resolve allegations that it caused healthcare providers to submit false claims to Medicare and other federal healthcare programs, the Justice Department said on Friday.
Austin policeman being probed after slamming black woman to ground
AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) – Austin, Texas, police on Friday were investigating the circumstances surrounding a traffic stop in which a white officer twice slammed a black woman to the ground while another officer later made racially charged comments.
Deere to lay off 120 employees at Moline factory
(Reuters) – Farm equipment maker Deere & Co said on Friday it would lay off about 120 production employees at its John Deere Harvester Works factory in east Moline, Illinois from Sept. 6.
Glitzy parties, bowling: Scenes from the other Republican convention
CLEVELAND (Reuters) – Bourbon flowed, a jazz band played, and pink and violet lights bathed the vaulted stone ceilings at a party thrown by a liquor producers’ lobby group on Monday for attendees of the Republican National Convention.
A carnival of contrasting views near Cleveland’s Republican convention
CLEVELAND (Reuters) – Stevedore Crawford strode onto the plaza at Cleveland’s Public Square, not far from this week’s Republican National Convention, pulled two brightly colored toy guns from his pants, waved them around and then threw himself onto the…
High water mark: active marijuana ingredient found in U.S. town well
DENVER (Reuters) – Residents of a small farming community in eastern Colorado have been warned to avoid drinking the town’s water after THC, the psychoactive agent in marijuana, was found in one of its feeder wells, authorities said on Thursday.
Former California police officer arrested on suspicion of rape
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (Reuters) – A former California police officer was arrested on Thursday and booked on suspicion of 22 felonies related to the rape and sexual battery of five women while on duty and in uniform, the prosecutor handling the case said.
