Backstreet Boys’ Nick Carter charged after bar fight in Florida
ORLANDO, Fla. (Reuters) – Backstreet Boys singer Nick Carter was arrested and jailed in Key West, Florida, on a charge of battery after he punched a bouncer at a bar, police said on Thursday.
Amanda Knox acquitted of slander charges against Italian police
ROME (Reuters) – An Italian court acquitted American Amanda Knox of slander charges brought after she said police coerced her to name the person who murdered her British flatmate Meredith Kercher, according to her Italian lawyer.
Advocates perplexed by U.S. response to Central American migrants
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Refugee advocates said on Thursday the Obama administration is sending mixed signals to Central American migrants by deporting families who have fled to the United States while increasing resources in the crime-ridden region for …
‘Power Rangers’ actor charged with stabbing murder of roommate
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – A former actor in the “Power Rangers” children’s television series accused of stabbing a roommate to death with a sword nearly a year ago has been charged with murder, prosecutors said on Thursday.
Maryland man indicted for providing support to Islamic State: DOJ
(Reuters) – A Maryland man was indicted for conspiring to provide material support to Islamic State, the U.S. Department of Justice said on Thursday.
Anxious phone calls, tense moments before Iran’s Supreme Leader okayed U.S. sailors’ release
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Iran’s detention of 10 U.S. sailors on Tuesday set off a furious round of meetings in both Washington and Tehran. Anxious officials in both capitals had the same goal: to ensure the incident did not torpedo a historic nuclear acc…
Obama says will focus on criminal justice reform, cancer research
BATON ROUGE, La. (Reuters) – President Barack Obama said on Thursday that he will focus his final-year legislative efforts on criminal justice reform, an expansion of a tax credit for the working poor, and a push to find medical research breakthroughs….
Alex gusts into first hurricane formed in January since 1938
TAMPA, Fla. (Reuters) – Hurricane Alex blasted into the record books on Thursday as the first Atlantic hurricane to form during the month of January in more than three-quarters of a century, U.S. weather forecasters said.
Venezuelan businessman to be sent to Texas for U.S. corruption case
MIAMI (Reuters) – A judge in Miami on Thursday ordered the transfer to Texas of a Venezuelan businessman accused by U.S. prosecutors of taking part in a $1 billion conspiracy to pay bribes to obtain contracts from Venezuela’s state oil company.
Alabama officer acquitted after injuring Indian grandfather
(Reuters) – A federal judge has acquitted an Alabama police officer charged with violating an Indian grandfather’s civil rights by throwing him to the ground and causing him serious injuries after the case previously went to two mistrials.
