U.S. Navy fires commander of sailors who were held by Iran
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Navy said on Thursday that it had fired the commander of the 10 American sailors who wandered into Iranian territorial waters in the Gulf in January and were briefly held by Iran in an incident that risked becoming an in…
Worker at Exxon refinery killed by falling pipe- Texas sheriff’s office
HOUSTON (Reuters) – A 37-year-old Brownsville, Texas, man was killed after being struck in the head and neck early on Wednesday by a falling 6-foot-long, 6-inch-diameter pipe while working at Exxon Mobil Corp’s Beaumont, Texas refinery, a sheriff’s off…
Chicago triple murder suspect killed by self-inflicted wound: police
CHICAGO (Reuters) – A Chicago man suspected of shooting three people to death, including the mother of one of his children, took his own life after an 11-hour standoff with police, authorities said on Thursday.
Exclusive: U.S. plans new wave of immigrant deportation raids
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. immigration officials are planning a month-long series of raids in May and June to deport hundreds of Central American mothers and children found to have entered the country illegally, according to sources and an internal do…
Maryland’s Joint Base Andrews locked down after bomb threat
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Joint Base Andrews in Maryland, the military facility in suburban Washington where the presidential aircraft Air Force One is based, was put on lockdown on Thursday after a woman claiming to have a bomb strapped to her chest arri…
U.S. judge holds Bangladesh diplomat, wife in default
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A Manhattan federal judge on Thursday held a Bangladesh diplomat and his wife in default for willfully ignoring a lawsuit by a former domestic worker who claimed they forced him to work without pay in slavery-like conditions.
Troopers in ‘disturbing’ New Hampshire motorist beating suspended
BOSTON (Reuters) – A state trooper from Massachusetts and another from New Hampshire were relieved of duty on Thursday for their involvement in the beating of a motorist that their commanders called “disturbing,” officials said.
Sentencing phase opens in ‘Grim Sleeper’ serial murder trial
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – The former Los Angeles sanitation worker convicted of murdering nine women and a teenage girl in the “Grim Sleeper” killings returned to court on Thursday for the penalty phase of his trial as prosecutors began making a case tha…
Zimmerman offers gun used to kill Martin on new auction site: report
(Reuters) – The Florida man who shot and killed black teenager Trayvon Martin, triggering nationwide civil rights protests, put his gun on a second auction website on Thursday after it was dropped by a firearm auction site that said it wanted no part i…
Delaware faults police but no charges in shooting of black man
(Reuters) – The Delaware Department of Justice criticized the conduct of Wilmington police who shot dead a wheelchair-bound black man last year, but decided against filing criminal charges against any officers in the death of 28-year-old Jeremy McDole….
