Two detention center staffers where Kentucky teen died face misdemeanor charges
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (Reuters) – Two staff members of the Kentucky youth detention center where a teenage girl died have been indicted by a grand jury on misdemeanor charges of failing to perform their official duties, prosecutors said on Friday.
Virginia man pleads guilty to trying to join Islamic State
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A Virginia man pleaded guilty in U.S. federal court on Friday to trying to join Islamic State in Syria earlier this year, becoming the fourth American this week to be convicted of attempting to support the group.
Indiana man gets life sentence for 2012 fatal house explosion
(Reuters) – An Indiana man was sentenced to life in prison on Friday for his part in causing a 2012 home explosion that killed two neighbors, injured dozens of people and damaged scores of homes in an Indianapolis neighborhood, a court official said.
Fatal fall of L.A. worker from unfinished high-rise probed as suicide
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – The fatal fall of a construction worker from the 53rd floor of an unfinished skyscraper in downtown Los Angeles, soon to be the tallest on the West Coast, is under investigation as a possible suicide, the medical examiner’s offi…
Illinois lawmaker’s daughter charged in political staple attack
(Reuters) – A daughter of an Illinois state representative has been charged with participating in an attack on one of her mother’s political rivals that included using a staple gun on the victim’s forehead, police and the victim said on Friday.
Chicago mayor must weigh insider versus outsider to reform police
CHICAGO (Reuters) – Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, who faces calls for his resignation over police misconduct, must weigh whether an insider or an outsider is the best choice for police chief to reform a long-troubled department that is under federal inve…
U.S. airmen at nuclear missile base suspended over drug probe
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Fourteen airmen who helped secure a U.S. complex in Wyoming that includes nuclear-armed intercontinental ballistic missiles have been suspended from their duties due to an investigation of “illegal drug activity,” the U.S. milita…
U.S. Navy missile program uses first 3D printed component
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A U.S Navy ballistic missile program used its first component made from 3D printing, a process that sharply reduces the manufacturing time, according to the weapons’ producer, Lockheed Martin Corp.
Some documents in Sumner Redstone case to be unsealed: judge
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – A Los Angeles judge tentatively ruled on Friday that certain documents can be made public in a lawsuit that challenges the mental competency of 92-year-old media mogul Sumner Redstone.
U.S. general Lori Robinson to become first woman to lead combatant command
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama will name the first woman to head a U.S. combatant command, selecting Air Force General Lori Robinson as the next head of the military’s Northern Command, Defense Secretary Ash Carter said on Friday.
