Maryland teacher assistant pleads not guilty to child porn charges
BELTSVILLE, Md. (Reuters) – A Maryland teaching assistant accused of filming sex videos of children at an elementary school pleaded not guilty on Friday to 13 federal child pornography charges.
Arkansas woman sentenced to five years after biting off boyfriend’s eyebrow
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (Reuters) – An Arkansas woman has been sentenced to five years in prison for slicing open her ex-boyfriend’s hand with a knife and biting off one of his eyebrows when he tried to break off the relationship, law enforcement authorities…
Pentagon chief eyes reforms to U.S. military structure
JOINT BASE LEWIS MCCORD, Wash. (Reuters) – U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter said on Friday that he planned to unveil proposals in a few weeks to reform the structure of the U.S. military to reflect changes in military challenges and requirements.
Closing arguments begin in Erin Andrews stalker civil trial
(Reuters) – Closing arguments began on Friday in sportscaster Erin Andrews’ civil trial against a Nashville hotel over a 2008 nude video of her taken by a stalker in an adjoining room at the hotel.
Michigan criticized for weak oversight of drinking water
DETROIT (Reuters) – Michigan’s Department of Environmental Quality failed to adequately monitor the city of Flint’s switch of the source of its drinking water, which later became contaminated with dangerously high levels of lead, the state’s auditor ge…
Mainstream Republicans struggle for strategy to stop Trump’s climb
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Mainstream U.S. Republicans struggled for a strategy on Friday to stop their party’s presidential front-runner Donald Trump from becoming the nominee for the Nov. 8 election, as Democrats reveled in the chaos they hoped would boo…
‘Son of Sal’ sentenced to 75 years in killings of New York shopkeepers
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A convicted New York clothing salesman known as the “Son of Sal” serial killer was sentenced on Friday for the 2012 shooting deaths of three shopkeepers in Brooklyn, prosecutors said.
Bomb threats at northern Virginia schools lead to evacuations
(Reuters) – Six northern Virginia schools received bomb threats on Friday, prompting evacuations, authorities said.
Serial airplane stowaway gets six months in Chicago mental health center
(Reuters) – A woman barred from airports around the United States for trying to evade security and board flights without a ticket was sentenced on Thursday to six months in a mental health center, after she pleaded guilty to trespassing at a Chicago ai…
CPAC says Trump drops out at ‘last minute’
(Reuters) – The Conservative Political Action Conference, or CPAC, on Friday said Donald Trump has dropped out of the annual event underway outside of Washington.
