Washington state teen charged with hate crime over social media message
SEATTLE (Reuters) – A university student in Washington state was charged on Thursday under the state’s hate crime statute with posting a racist threat on the anonymous social media platform Yik Yak, authorities said.
Oklahoma City ex-policeman Holtzclaw found guilty of rape
OKLAHOMA CITY (Reuters) – A jury on Thursday found a former Oklahoma City police officer accused of sexually assaulting and raping 13 women guilty of rape and sexual battery.
Accused 9/11 plotters’ objections to female guards a bid to stall trial: U.S. officer
FORT MEADE, Md. (Reuters) – Prisoners’ religious objections to being touched by female guards at Guantanamo Bay are an attempt to stall proceedings in the death penalty trial of five men accused of a role in the Sept. 11 attacks, a U.S. military comman…
Oklahoma City ex-policeman Holtzclaw found guilty of rape
OKLAHOMA CITY (Reuters) – A jury on Thursday found a former Oklahoma City police officer accused of sexually assaulting and raping 13 women guilty of rape and sexual battery.
Oklahoma City ex-policeman Holtzclaw found guilty of rape
OKLAHOMA CITY (Reuters) – A jury on Thursday found a former Oklahoma City police officer accused of sexually assaulting and raping 13 women guilty of rape and sexual battery.
California public pension reform measure can try for ballot
(Reuters) – Proponents of an initiative to reduce public pension obligations in California took a step forward on Thursday with approval to start collecting signatures to get a proposal onto the November 2016 ballot.
South Carolina military college suspends cadets over KKK-like hoods
CHARLESTON, S.C. (Reuters) – The Citadel military college in South Carolina said on Thursday it was suspending eight cadets after photographs were posted on social media showing them wearing pointed white pillowcases that resemble hoods worn by the Ku …
Armed suspect taken into custody at Arkansas State University
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (Reuters) – An armed man crashed a pickup truck carrying propane tanks on the campus of Arkansas State University on Thursday and was taken into custody by police after a standoff lasting about an hour, school officials said, adding t…
House blocks effort to force vote on gun legislation
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Republican-run House of Representatives on Thursday blocked a Democratic effort to consider bipartisan gun control legislation in the wake of repeated, highly publicized mass shootings in the United States.
Arkansas Supreme Court halts birth certificates for same-sex partners
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (Reuters) – The Arkansas Supreme Court on Thursday temporarily blocked a lower court order that allowed same-sex parents throughout the state to be listed as parents on the birth certificates of their children.
