Healthcare IT firm Cerner’s CEO diagnosed with cancer
(Reuters) – Healthcare IT company Cerner Corp’s Chief Executive, Neal Patterson, said he had been diagnosed with a curable soft tissue cancer and that he planned to start treatment immediately.
Missouri professor who called for ‘muscle’ against reporter charged
(Reuters) – A University of Missouri communications professor who called for “some muscle” to get a student journalist to back off during campus protests in November was charged on Monday with misdemeanor assault, prosecutors said.
Ex-cop pleads guilty to murdering Oregon woman found in suitcase
MILWAUKEE (Reuters) – A former Wisconsin police officer accused of killing two women, stuffing their bodies into suitcases and dumping them on a rural road pleaded guilty on Monday to murder in one of the cases, online court records showed.
Ex-drug CEO Shkreli gets green light to appear before Congress
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A federal judge on Monday gave Martin Shkreli, a former pharmaceuticals executive facing securities fraud charges, permission to appear at a Congressional hearing on drug pricing.
North Carolina’s voter ID law goes on trial
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (Reuters) – Minority voters in North Carolina will have a harder time casting a ballot this presidential election year if a judge allows a law requiring photo identification at the polls to take effect, challengers of the law said i…
U.S. top court backs Obama administration electricity markets rule
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday upheld a major Obama administration electricity-markets regulation that encourages big power users like factories to cut consumption at peak times, rejecting a challenge brought by electric utilit…
White House welcomes Supreme Court ruling on electricity markets rule
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to uphold a federal rule for electricity markets that encouraged grid operators to pay large users to reduce consumption at peak times is good news for consumers and clean energy, the White House…
Trial starts for oil truck operator in North Dakota murder-for-hire case
SEATTLE (Reuters) – The trial of an oil truck operator charged with orchestrating the killings of two business rivals competing for work in North Dakota’s Bakken oil patch was set to begin on Monday in Washington state.
Former NFL quarterback Vince Young arrested for DWI in Texas
AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) – Former NFL quarterback and University of Texas football star Vince Young has been arrested in Austin on a charge of driving while intoxicated, police said on Monday.
Former Wayne County prosecutor to lead probe of Flint water crisis
(Reuters) – Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette on Monday named a special prosecutor and investigator to look into possible crimes in the city of Flint’s water crisis.
