Cornell’s first female president dies eight months after starting job
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Elizabeth Garrett, who in July became the first woman to serve as Cornell University’s president, has died a month after learning she had colon cancer, the Ivy League school said on Monday.
Court blocks immediate FCC rate cut for U.S. prisoner telephone calls
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A federal appeals court on Monday put on hold an order by the Federal Communications Commission cutting U.S. prison telephone rates for local and long-distance calls to 11 cents a minute, from levels as high as $14 a minute, for …
Oklahoma man sentenced for sexually abusing children in Kenya
OKLAHOMA CITY (Reuters) – A former missionary from Oklahoma was sentenced in U.S. federal court on Monday to 40 years in prison for molesting children at a Kenyan orphanage.
Chesapeake’s McClendon honored by thousands in Oklahoma ceremony
OKLAHOMA CITY (Reuters) – Friends, family and employees of Aubrey McClendon paid their respects on Monday to the U.S. energy entrepreneur, a hometown hero who died last week in a car crash after his indictment on bid-rigging charges.
Connecticut teen enters plea deal in girl’s murder on prom day
(Reuters) – A Connecticut teen pleaded “no contest” to murder on Monday in the stabbing death of a female classmate in a school hallway hours before their 2014 junior prom.
Supreme court reverses Louisiana death row inmate’s conviction
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday threw out a Louisiana death row inmate’s 2002 murder conviction in the beating death of a 16-year-old pizza delivery boy, saying prosecutors withheld evidence that could have buttressed his claim …
Wife of former Eagles bassist Meisner dead from accidental gunshot
(Reuters) – The wife of former Eagles rock band bassist Randy Meisner was killed on Sunday evening when a gun she was removing from a case went off accidentally at their Los Angeles home after a domestic violence call earlier in the day, city police sa…
Flint becomes U.S. Democratic flash point, but residents want action
FLINT, Mich. (Reuters) – The Flint water crisis has united Democrats Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders in outrage, but some residents suffering through the city’s major public health scandal want more than talking points from the presidential contende…
Alabama high court tosses petitions challenging gay marriage
(This story corrects headline and first paragraph to show that petitions, not lawsuit, were dismissed adds details on suit and ruling in paragraphs 1, 2, 3 and 4.)
Jury to deliberate in Erin Andrews video stalker case
(Reuters) – A jury could soon deliver a verdict in the case of sportscaster Erin Andrews, who sued management and owners of a Nashville Marriott hotel over a 2008 nude video of her that was taken by a stalker in an adjoining room and later posted on th…
