Red tuna crabs carpet Southern California beaches again
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Masses of tiny red crustaceans known as tuna crabs have washed up for a second straight year along stretches of the Southern California shoreline in a phenomenon marine scientists say is linked to warmer ocean currents flowing u…
Two former L.A. Sheriff’s deputies guilty of beating inmate: prosecutors
(Reuters) – A federal court found two former Los Angeles County Sheriff’s deputies guilty of beating, kicking and pepper spraying a mentally ill jail inmate in the largest county jail system in the United States, prosecutors said.
St. Louis officer charged with 2011 murder of black man
(Reuters) – A former St. Louis police officer was charged on Monday with first-degree murder for killing a black man in 2011 after a car chase, prosecutors said.
Sinead O’Connor found safe after going missing in Chicago area
CHICAGO (Reuters) – Irish-born singer Sinead O’Connor turned up safe at an undisclosed location on Monday, hours after police in Illinois said she was missing, citing a concerned caller who told authorities she had failed to return from a bicycle ride….
Colorado babysitter held in drive-through bank robbery with kids in car
DENVER (Reuters) – A Colorado babysitter has been arrested on suspicion of robbing a drive-through bank by falsely claiming that a man in her car threatened to harm the two children in her care unless given money, police said on Monday.
Two Mexicans extradited on charges of murdering U.S. immigration agent
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Two Mexican men have been extradited to the United States to face charges in the killing of a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent, the U.S. Justice Department said on Monday.
U.S. captain of doomed El Faro aimed to avoid storm: testimony
TAMPA, Fla. (Reuters) – U.S. Coast Guard investigators on Monday resumed a probe of last year’s deadly sinking of the El Faro off the Bahamas, beginning two weeks of hearings to examine the cargo ship’s operations, weather forecasts and regulatory over…
Appeals court revives challenge to California county’s gun law
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – A federal appeals court on Monday revived a lawsuit by prospective gun shop owners who were banned by Alameda County, California, from opening within 500 feet of a residential district, ruling that local officials had failed to …
U.S. judge restores bail for ex-prep school student in sex case
CONCORD, N.H. (Reuters) – A New Hampshire judge on Monday ordered the release from jail of a former prep school student convicted of luring an underage classmate into a sexual encounter, two months after his bail was revoked for curfew violations.
Gun used by Zimmerman to kill Trayvon Martin on block again
(Reuters) – George Zimmerman, the Florida man who killed unarmed teenager Trayvon Martin in 2012, will try again this week to sell the handgun he used in the shooting after an online auction last week was hijacked by fake buyers.
