Chicago board halts naming police chief candidates
CHICAGO (Reuters) – The board in charge of choosing candidates to become Chicago’s next police chief said on Friday it will not suggest any new names until it sees whether the city council changes the selection rules.
Flint considering lawsuit against Michigan: report
CHICAGO (Reuters) – The city of Flint is considering suing the state of Michigan over lead contamination in the city’s drinking water, a local media report said on Friday.
New York woman in headscarf lied about being slashed: police
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A woman in a headscarf who reported being slashed across the cheek by an attacker who called her a terrorist has admitted she lied, police said on Friday.
VW recalls 91,000 Passat sedans in U.S. to fix cable insulation
FRANKFURT (Reuters) – Volkswagen is recalling 91,000 Passat sedans in the United States to fix insufficient cable insulation that could cause short circuits, it said on Friday.
Chicago doctor charged with making false diagnosis to help immigrants
CHICAGO (Reuters) – A Chicago doctor and a member of her staff have been charged with falsifying medical documents to help applicants bypass U.S. citizenship tests, prosecutors said on Friday.
Missing Texas mother found dead in car, children alive in back seat
DALLAS (Reuters) – A woman from a Dallas suburb who was reported missing this week was found dead inside her sport-utility vehicle in a shopping center parking lot with her three children alive in the back seat, police said on Friday.
CIA left inert explosives on school bus after exercise
(Reuters) – The CIA left behind inert explosives in a Virginia school bus used for a canine training exercise and students were transported in it before the materials were found, officials said.
U.S. military training dozens of Syrian fighters in new program
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. military said on Friday it has started training dozens of Syrian opposition fighters to battle the militant group Islamic State as part of a revamped program that aims to avoid mistakes that doomed its first training eff…
Texas jury selection starts for re-sentencing of ‘Bernie’ mortician
(Reuters) – A pool of East Texas residents was called as prospective jurors on Friday for a re-sentencing hearing of a former mortician convicted of killing a wealthy, elderly woman and hiding her body in a freezer, a story that inspired the 2011 movie…
FedEx fails to end New York lawsuit over illegal cigarettes
NEW YORK (Reuters) – FedEx Corp must face a second lawsuit claiming it shipped thousands of cartons of untaxed cigarettes in New York over roughly a decade, cheating the state and New York City out of tax revenue and undercutting their efforts to curb …
