Massachusetts 13-year-old took stolen car on 30-mile joyride
BOSTON (Reuters) – A 13-year-old Massachusetts boy was due in court on Thursday to face charges of allegedly stealing a sport-utility vehicle and taking it on a 30-mile joyride before crashing in Boston, prosecutors and local media said.
Oklahoma storm-packing tornadoes injure seven, damage buildings
(Reuters) – Several tornadoes were reported in northern Oklahoma late on Wednesday, with heavy winds blowing down power lines, damaging structures and injuring at least seven people, regional officials said.
Trump sounds off on abortion; criticism comes from all sides
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump said on Wednesday that women who end pregnancies should face punishment if the United States bans abortion, triggering a torrent of criticism from both sides of the abortion debat…
FBI’s secret method of unlocking iPhone may never reach Apple
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The FBI may be allowed to withhold information about how it broke into an iPhone belonging to a gunman in the December San Bernardino shootings, despite a U.S. government policy of disclosing technology security flaws discovered …
Lawsuit seeks to disband California surf crew
(Reuters) – A group of surfers in Southern California should be designated a criminal gang after years of intimidating visitors and vandalizing property to keep their slice of the ocean to themselves, according to a federal lawsuit.
Former Stanford swimmer convicted of sex assault on unconscious woman
(Reuters) – A former Stanford University swimmer was convicted on Wednesday of sexually assaulting an unconscious woman following a party on the campus of the prestigious California school, the Los Angeles Times reported.
Alaska school children plotted to poison classmate: police
(Reuters) – Police in Anchorage, Alaska, said on Wednesday they had investigated a plot by two young school children to poison a classmate.
Pentagon to send about a dozen Guantanamo inmates to other countries soon
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Pentagon plans to transfer about a dozen inmates of the Guantanamo military prison to at least two countries that have agreed to take them, a U.S. official said on Wednesday, the latest move in President Barack Obama’s final …
Police will not be charged in Minneapolis death of black man
MINNEAPOLIS (Reuters) – Two Minneapolis police officers involved in the shooting death of a 24-year-old black man will not be charged, prosecutors said on Wednesday, because evidence showed Jamar Clark was not handcuffed and that he reached for an offi…
Rescued sea turtles Thunder & Lightning arrive for rehab in San Diego
SAN DIEGO, Calif. (Reuters) – Two endangered olive ridley sea turtles found stranded and comatose along the northern Oregon coast in December were flown by the U.S. Coast Guard on Wednesday to San Diego to begin long-term rehabilitative care at SeaWorl…
