Alleged Texas shooter knocked murder victim’s gun from his hands: police
DALLAS (Reuters) – An Army private accused of shooting his wife during an argument in a Dallas-area parking lot and killing a man who tried to intervene knocked the man’s gun from his hands, police said on Tuesday.
Ex-N.Y. legislative leader Silver sentenced to 12 years in prison
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Former New York State Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, for decades one of the state’s most powerful politicians, was sentenced on Tuesday to 12 years in federal prison for collecting millions of dollars in illegal kickbacks.
No charges against Virginia police for using stun guns on man who later died
(Reuters) – A Virginia prosecutor declined on Tuesday to seek criminal charges against police officers who used stun guns repeatedly on a black man in 2013 before he died.
New York City to pay U.S. $4.3 million in Medicare fraud case
NEW YORK (Reuters) – New York City agreed to pay the U.S. government $4.3 million to settle a civil fraud lawsuit accusing the city’s fire department of accepting tens of thousands of improper Medicare reimbursements for emergency ambulance services.
Bill allowing guns on Tennessee campuses becomes law
NASHVILLE (Reuters) – Educators and other full-time staffers at Tennessee’s public state universities and colleges will soon be able to carry handguns on campus after Governor Bill Haslam allowed a bill to become law on Monday without his signature.
Connecticut rabbi, former police commissioner accused of child sex abuse
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A former police commissioner in New Haven, Connecticut, who became a rabbi is accused of sexually abusing a teenager in his care from 2001 to 2005, according to a federal lawsuit filed on Tuesday.
Man hijacks Washington bus, kills pedestrian
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A man hijacked a Washington D.C. bus on Tuesday and drove it into a gas station, killing a pedestrian in an incident that was over in less than three minutes, police said.
Washington’s 2015 subway fire showed widespread safety lapses: agency
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A Washington subway fire last year that killed a passenger and injured 91 people showed widespread shortcomings by the U.S. capital’s troubled transit system and emergency personnel, safety officials said on Tuesday.
Obama to meet with Flint, Michigan residents on water crisis
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama will meet with 1,000 residents of Flint, Michigan, at a roundtable discussion about the city’s water crisis during his visit to the Detroit suburb on Wednesday, the White House said.
U.S. prosecutors consider more charges against ex-CEO Shkreli
(Reuters) – Former drug executive Martin Shkreli, who last year became a lightning rod for outrage over soaring prescription drug prices, may face additional U.S. charges of securities fraud, a federal prosecutor said on Tuesday.
