Florida ‘Facebook killer’ gets life in prison for wife’s murder
MIAMI (Reuters) – A Florida man convicted of second-degree murder after killing his wife and posting a photo of her blood-spattered body on Facebook was sentenced to life in prison on Friday.
Obama’s move on gender pay gap seen as first step in uphill battle
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Advocates fighting to close the U.S. gender pay gap hailed President Barack Obama’s proposal to expand salary reporting requirements but said much more was needed to end wage discrimination.
Ohio deputy fatally shoots man after apparent stabbing incident
CLEVELAND (Reuters) – An Ohio sheriff’s deputy shot and killed a man armed with a knife after a woman called 911 and told dispatchers she had been stabbed multiple times and “needed rescue,” officials said on Friday.
Bayer rejects EPA request to pull insecticide from U.S. market
CHICAGO (Reuters) – The agricultural unit of German chemicals company Bayer AG said on Friday it will fight a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) request to pull one of its insecticides from the marketplace amid concerns that it could harm organ…
U.S. Air Force says plans test F-35 deployment this month
NELLIS AIR FORCE BASE, Nevada (Reuters) – The U.S. Air Force will deploy four Lockheed Martin Corp F-35 fighter jets to a different U.S. air base this month as it assesses whether the new warplane can be declared combat-ready by August as planned, a se…
Super Bowl home rental prices not meeting stratospheric hopes
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Some San Francisco Bay Area residents hoping to rent their homes for thousands of dollars a night to deep-pocketed Super Bowl attendees are finding themselves short of the goal line.
New Jersey man arrested after drone crashes into Empire State Building
(Reuters) – A New Jersey man was arrested on Thursday after a drone he was flying crashed into the 40th floor of the Empire State Building in New York City, police said.
Pentagon chief pledges $1 billion boost for U.S. Air Force training
NELLIS AIR FORCE BASE, Nev. (Reuters) – The Pentagon’s fiscal 2017 budget will propose a $1 billion boost in spending on advanced training for the U.S. Air Force over the next five years, U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter said on Thursday.
Suspended U.N. diplomat lacks immunity from U.S. bribe case: judge
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A suspended deputy United Nations ambassador from the Dominican Republic cannot claim diplomatic immunity to avoid U.S. charges that he participated in a vast bribery scheme, a U.S. judge ruled on Thursday.
Unreliable phone data helped convict Maryland man in ‘Serial’ case: expert
BALTIMORE (Reuters) – The murder conviction of a Baltimore man that was explored by the 2014 podcast “Serial” was based in part on unreliable cellphone data, a forensic expert testified at a court hearing on Thursday.
