New Jersey’s top court to rule in high-stakes public pension case
(Reuters) – The New Jersey Supreme Court is expected to decide on Thursday whether the state’s 2011 public pension reform improperly froze retirees’ cost-of-living increases, a ruling that could cost the state billions of dollars in new liabilities.
California surrogate loses bid to be named mother of triplets
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A federal judge in Los Angeles has dismissed a lawsuit brought by a surrogate mother of triplets seeking to overturn California’s surrogacy law and name her as the children’s mother.
Gold medal stolen from Olympian’s car in Atlanta parking lot
ATLANTA (Reuters) – Atlanta police were searching on Wednesday for a 1992 Olympic gold medal stolen from champion canoer Joe Jacobi’s car in a restaurant parking lot earlier this week.
Kentucky prisons drop mail policy targeting homosexuality
(Reuters) – The Kentucky Department of Corrections has dropped a policy allowing state prisons to ban inmates’ mail it claimed promoted homosexuality, a spokeswoman with the department said on Wednesday.
Rape retrial begins for ex-Vanderbilt football player
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (Reuters) – Former Vanderbilt University football player Brandon Vandenburg’s retrial began on Wednesday with jury selection, nearly a year after a judge declared a mistrial following his conviction for the June 2013 rape of an unconsc…
Former Oklahoma sheriff’s deputy to appeal manslaughter conviction
TULSA, Okla. (Reuters) – A white former volunteer sheriff’s deputy in Oklahoma has filed court papers saying he will appeal his manslaughter conviction for fatally shooting an unarmed black suspect with a pistol he said he mistook for a Taser, court of…
At largest U.S. training site, police dogs learn to thwart attacks
STORMVILLE, N.Y. (Reuters) – At a sprawling campus north of New York City, a 3-year-old German Shepherd named Johnny frantically sniffed through seats and luggage bins on an out-of-service commuter rail train trying to catch a whiff of hidden explosive…
Non-profit for late caricaturist Al Hirschfeld sues NY gallery
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A non-profit that exhibits art by the late theater and screen caricaturist Al Hirschfeld has filed a lawsuit against a New York gallery that has long sold his work, court records on Wednesday showed.
Ex-CIA agent appeal fails, faces extradition to Italy
LISBON (Reuters) – A former CIA agent will be extradited to Italy for her involvement in the kidnapping of an Egyptian cleric under the U.S. “extraordinary rendition” program, after a last appeal to Portuguese authorities failed, she said on Wednesday….
Five cyclists killed, four injured in Michigan car crash
(Reuters) – Five cyclists were killed and four injured on Tuesday evening when a pickup truck collided with a cycling group along a road in southwest Michigan, officials said.
