Families sue Illinois school district over transgender bathroom case
CHICAGO (Reuters) – Dozens of families on Wednesday sued two federal agencies and a suburban Chicago school district over a policy they said disregards student privacy and safety by allowing transgender students to use bathrooms that correspond with th…
Lawsuit extends fascination with Kent State deaths 46 years on
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A federal lawsuit filed on Wednesday revives lingering questions about the bloodshed at Kent State University, a traumatic event in U.S. history that still holds sway over many who lived through it 46 years ago.
Cleveland man did not plan murders, lawyers tell jury
CLEVELAND (Reuters) – A Cleveland man charged with murdering three women and wrapping their bodies in plastic to disguise them as trash is responsible for their deaths but had not planned them, his lawyers argued on Wednesday in a bid to save him from …
California teens abducted after prom but break free from captor
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – A 22-year-old man with a handgun kidnapped a teenage couple over the weekend in Southern California after their high school prom, but the abduction was foiled when the boy wrestled away the firearm and hit the suspect with it, p…
New Mexico man faces charges in kidnapping, slaying of Navajo girl
SANTA FE, N.M. (Reuters) – A man accused of kidnapping an 11-year-old girl on a Navajo reservation in New Mexico and striking her on the head with a tire iron made his initial court appearance on Wednesday to face murder and other charges related to he…
‘Y’all ruined my life,’ says man, killing co-worker, self in Texas
(Reuters) – A man who had been fired from a Houston-area trucking firm on Wednesday returned to the company and fatally shot a co-worker with a shotgun before taking his own life, the Harris County sheriff said.
Obama: Filtered water in Flint is safe for kids over 6 years old
FLINT, Mich. (Reuters) – President Barack Obama on Wednesday urged parents in Flint, Michigan, to ensure their children were tested for lead in their blood even as he sought to assure the community that filtered water in the city was safe for anyone ov…
Flint official cuts deal in water crisis, agrees to aid prosecutors
FLINT, Mich. (Reuters) – An official in Flint, Michigan, agreed to cooperate in probes of dangerous levels of lead in the city’s drinking water as part of a deal reached on Wednesday in which he pleaded no contest to a misdemeanor charge and won the di…
Amish lose appeal of convictions in Ohio beard-cutting attacks
(Reuters) – Fifteen members of an Ohio Amish sect convicted in a spate of beard- and hair-cutting attacks on other adherents to their faith lost a bid on Wednesday to have their convictions thrown out, after a U.S. appeals court ruled they had failed t…
Father of ex-investment banker avoids prison for insider trading
(Reuters) – The father of a former investment banker at Perella Weinberg Partners and JPMorgan Chase & Co was sentenced on Wednesday to a year of home confinement and three more years of probation, for trading securities ahead of healthcare mergers based on tips from his son.
