Chicago police officer involved in fatal 2012 shooting resigns
(Reuters) – The Chicago police officer who killed a 22-year-old black woman in an off-duty shooting in 2012 resigned on Tuesday, two days before a hearing was set to begin on whether he should be fired over the incident, officials said.
Texas ‘affluenza’ teen moved to less restrictive jail
AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) – The Texas teenager who tried to use an “affluenza” defense for killing four people while driving drunk was moved on Tuesday out of a maximum security jail where he was held mostly in isolation and into a less restrictive facil…
Judges rule Trump University can appeal to New York’s highest court
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A New York appeals court issued a ruling on Tuesday that apparently made it highly unlikely that a state fraud case against Trump University, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s venture, will be heard before the Nov. 8…
Radio traffic likely distracted Amtrak engineer in 2015 crash: NTSB
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The engineer driving a speeding Amtrak passenger train that crashed in Philadelphia in 2015, killing eight passengers, was likely distracted by radio traffic, U.S. safety officials said on Tuesday after a year-long investigation….
Most Texas quakes likely caused by oil, gas activities: study
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Oil and gas activities may have caused nearly nine in 10 of the earthquakes Texas has experienced in the past 40 years, and the quakes have become more frequent as oilfield activity has picked up in the past decade, according to a …
Blazing meteor creates light show across New England sky
BOSTON (Reuters) – A meteor lit up the night sky over New England and eastern Canada early on Tuesday, startling people who saw it including police officers who captured the show on a dashcam.
Plains All American Pipeline indicted in Santa Barbara oil spill
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – A Houston-based pipeline company has been indicted in California on 46 criminal charges stemming from a major oil spill last year that forced beach closures and fouled miles of shoreline near Santa Barbara, prosecutors said on T…
Pfizer ban on lethal drug sales complicates executions in 20 states
(Reuters) – More than 20 U.S. states that use a combination of drugs to carry out lethal injections will find it harder to conduct executions due to Pfizer’s ban on sales of its chemicals, but the move will have little impact on the handful that rely o…
Violinist Itzhak Perlman scraps N.C. concert over ‘discriminatory’ law
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (Reuters) – Renowned violinist Itzhak Perlman on Tuesday became the latest entertainer to cancel a performance in North Carolina to protest against the state’s law requiring transgender people to use public bathrooms that match thei…
Texas grand jury does not indict officer who fatally shot naked teen
AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) – A Texas grand jury has decided not to bring charges against an Austin police officer who fatally shot an unarmed and naked teenage male in February, a local prosecutor said on Tuesday.
