Ohio man guilty of corpse abuse in case of infant dead in crib
(Reuters) – An Ohio man whose infant daughter was discovered dead in a crib by a cable television installer was found guilty on Wednesday of abuse of a corpse and tampering with evidence.
Two gay men challenge Tennessee denial of service law
(Reuters) – Two men have filed a lawsuit against Tennessee and its governor saying their constitutional rights as gay individuals are violated by a new law that allows mental health counselors to refuse to treat patients on the basis of “sincerely held…
Rangers search for man who fell into Yellowstone hot spring
(Reuters) – Yellowstone National Park rangers on Wednesday were attempting to recover the body of a man who was believed killed after falling into a hot spring at the tourist attraction in Wyoming, a park spokesman said.
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…
