Fishing ship catches fire south of Hawaii, 42 crew members rescued
(Reuters) – Crew members of a fishing ship that caught fire south of Hawaii on Wednesday were rescued after they abandoned their vessel, the U.S. Coast Guard said.
Justice Dept. sues Ferguson, Missouri, to force police reforms
FERGUSON, Mo./WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Justice Department sued Ferguson, Missouri, on Wednesday to force the city to change its police department and court system after the federal government found both to be biased against minorities.
Ex-Anglo Irish Bank head due back in Boston court
BOSTON (Reuters) – The former head of Anglo Irish Bank is due to return to a Boston federal courthouse on Thursday where he is expected to acquiesce to a U.S. effort to ship him back to his native Ireland to face criminal charges related to the bank’s …
Wife of Thunder assistant coach Williams dies after crash
(Reuters) – The wife of Oklahoma City Thunder assistant coach Monty Williams died on Wednesday following a car accident the night before, the NBA said.
Flint has highest rate of vacant homes in United States: report
DETROIT (Reuters) – Flint, Michigan, known for its drinking-water crisis, is also suffering a real-estate slump as the city’s rate of vacant homes stands at the highest in the nation, pushing down house prices, according to a report released on Thursda…
U.S. Coast Guard to investigate storm-battered cruise ship
(Reuters) – A Royal Caribbean cruise ship battered by an Atlantic storm returned to its New Jersey port late on Wednesday, where the U.S. Coast Guard plans to investigate what went wrong.
Former L.A. County sheriff pleads guilty to corruption charge
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Former Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca pleaded guilty on Wednesday to lying to investigators in a federal corruption and civil rights probe that clouded the final years of his tenure as chief custodian of the nation’s larges…
Robert Kennedy assassin, Sirhan Sirhan, denied parole: official
(Reuters) – Sirhan Sirhan, the assassin of Democratic presidential candidate Robert Kennedy in 1968, was denied parole for the 15th time on Wednesday, a California prison official said.
Appeals court overturns decision to halt executions in Mississippi
(Reuters) – A U.S. appeals court on Wednesday reversed a decision that halted executions in Mississippi, finding a lower court abused its discretion when it blocked the use of certain lethal injection drugs.
‘Son of Sal’ convicted of killing New York shopkeepers
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A New York clothing salesman known as the “Son of Sal” serial killer was convicted on Wednesday of three counts of second-degree murder in the 2012 shooting deaths of three shopkeepers in Brooklyn, prosecutors said.
