‘Affluenza’ teen to drop fight against Mexico deportation: source
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Lawyers for a Texas teen who killed four people in a so-called “affluenza” drunk-driving case have told Mexican authorities they want to drop their fight against his deportation to the United States, a Mexican official said on W…
Man facing N.J. terrorism charges cited Islamic State: prosecutors
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A man accused of killing four people in New Jersey and Washington state to avenge U.S. foreign policy kept a journal where he expressed a desire to travel to Iraq to support the Islamic State militant group, according to state pros…
Baltimore judge rules against prosecutors over Freddie Gray trial witness
BALTIMORE (Reuters) – A judge on Wednesday rejected prosecutors’ request that a Baltimore policeman facing retrial over the death of black detainee Freddie Gray be forced to testify in the trials of his fellow officers.
Foundation head pleads guilty in U.N. bribery case
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The head of a New York-based foundation pleaded guilty on Wednesday to participating in a scheme to bribe a former U.N. General Assembly president to advance various business interests, becoming the second defendant to admit wrongd…
More charges for driver accused of plowing into Las Vegas pedestrians
LAS VEGAS (Reuters) – An Oregon woman facing a murder charge for killing a tourist when she drove onto a sidewalk and caused chaos on the Las Vegas Strip was charged on Wednesday with dozens more counts, including attempted murder, for harming other pe…
Ex-guard at N.Y.’s Rikers Island sentenced for assaulting inmate
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A former guard at New York City’s notorious Rikers Island jail complex was sentenced on Wednesday to 90 days in jail for assaulting an inmate in 2009 in an incident that blinded the man in one eye.
U.S. Supreme Court rules against ‘Wichita Massacre’ brothers
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled against two brothers challenging their death sentences for a 2000 Kansas crime spree known as the “Wichita Massacre” that included execution-style murders of one woman and three men on a …
U.S. justices target Alaska moose hunter’s hovercraft claim
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Supreme Court took aim on Wednesday at a U.S. government regulation that banned an Alaska moose hunter from riding his hovercraft through a conservation area in a case that touches upon simmering tensions over federal control…
Trial under way for N.Y. officer charged with shooting black man
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Jury selection began on Wednesday in the manslaughter trial of a New York City police officer who killed an unarmed black man in a darkened stairwell, Brooklyn prosecutors said.
Natural gas likely overtook coal as top U.S. power source in 2015
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Last year looks like it was an unwelcome watershed for the embattled U.S. coal industry.
