Jury finds Massachusetts teen guilty in teacher’s 2013 murder
LOWELL, Mass. (Reuters) – A Massachusetts jury on Tuesday found a teenager guilty of raping and murdering a math teacher at his suburban high school in 2013, rejecting an insanity defense.
‘Suspicious item’ on Paris-Miami flight not a threat: officials
MIAMI (Reuters) – All passengers of an American Airlines jet were cleared and the plane released Tuesday evening after police determined that a suspicious item noticed during a flight from Paris did not pose a threat, a spokesman for Miami Internationa…
Brokerage employee gets three years in U.S. prison over Venezuelan bribes
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A Florida man who worked at a Wall Street brokerage was sentenced to three years in prison on Tuesday for participating in a massive scheme to bribe officials at Venezuelan state-owned development banks for trading business.
Gun and bomb attack threat closes Los Angeles schools in likely hoax
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Los Angeles shut more than 1,000 public schools on Tuesday over a threatened attack with bombs and assault rifles, sending hundreds of thousands of students home as city leaders were criticized for overreacting to what federal o…
Seattle tour operator in deadly crash broke safety laws – state
SEATTLE (Reuters) – The operator of a fleet of amphibious tour buses involved in a crash in Seattle that left five foreign students dead violated safety regulations 442 times and could face penalties of as much as $1,000 per infraction, Washington stat…
Two Colorado girls, 16, detained over high school threat
DENVER (Reuters) – Two 16-year-old girls in Colorado have been detained on suspicion of conspiracy to commit first-degree murder following a threat to students and staff at a Denver-area high school, authorities said on Tuesday.
U.S. sentences Russian nuclear official to four years for bribe scheme
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A federal judge on Tuesday sentenced a former nuclear official of Russia’s state-run enterprise Rosatom to 48 months in prison for his role in a scheme that awarded contracts to American companies in exchange for millions of dollars in bribes.
At American schools, security fears increasingly prompt evacuations
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – While the dramatic closure of the entire Los Angeles school district over a threatened attack grabbed national attention on Tuesday, similar fears are reverberating at schools across the country following a spate of mass shootin…
Indiana university gives all clear after armed robbery near campus
(Reuters) – An Indianapolis university has lifted a shelter-in-place warning on Tuesday more than an hour after a report that a man who had committed an armed robbery was running toward campus, according to the university’s Twitter feed.
U.S. treasure hunter sentenced to prison in case tied to missing gold coins
COLUMBUS, Ohio (Reuters) – An Ohio treasure hunter who eluded authorities for more than two years and has refused to disclose the whereabouts of hundreds of gold coins his company recovered from an 1850s shipwreck was sentenced on Tuesday to two years …
