Ex-guard at N.Y.’s Rikers Island sentenced for assaulting inmate
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A former guard at New York City’s notorious Rikers Island jail complex was sentenced on Wednesday to 90 days in jail for assaulting an inmate in 2009 in an incident that blinded the man in one eye.
U.S. Supreme Court rules against ‘Wichita Massacre’ brothers
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled against two brothers challenging their death sentences for a 2000 Kansas crime spree known as the “Wichita Massacre” that included execution-style murders of one woman and three men on a …
U.S. justices target Alaska moose hunter’s hovercraft claim
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Supreme Court took aim on Wednesday at a U.S. government regulation that banned an Alaska moose hunter from riding his hovercraft through a conservation area in a case that touches upon simmering tensions over federal control…
Trial under way for N.Y. officer charged with shooting black man
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Jury selection began on Wednesday in the manslaughter trial of a New York City police officer who killed an unarmed black man in a darkened stairwell, Brooklyn prosecutors said.
Natural gas likely overtook coal as top U.S. power source in 2015
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Last year looks like it was an unwelcome watershed for the embattled U.S. coal industry.
U.S. South braces for snow and freezing cold ahead of winter storm
(Reuters) – Predictions of icy roads and freezing temperatures prompted school closings and emergency preparations in several states in the U.S. South on Wednesday, ahead of a major storm expected to blast snow across the Northeast later this week.
Wal-Mart to hike pay for 1.2 million workers in 2016
(Reuters) – Wal-Mart Stores Inc said more than 1.2 million of its employees would get a raise in 2016 and introduced new rules allowing staff to carry over paid days off as the retailer aims to retain workers amid a tight U.S. labor market.
Nearly all Detroit schools closed due to teachers’ sickout
(Reuters) – Nearly all public schools in Detroit were closed on Wednesday as teachers called in sick to protest conditions, the school system and teachers’ union said.
Black Lives Matter protesters interrupt U.S. mayors’ conference
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Demonstrators from the Black Lives Matter movement interrupted the U.S. Conference of Mayors’ meeting on Wednesday, protesting the killing of a Chicago teenager by police and the lead-tainted water supply of Flint, Michigan.
Obama determined to find out what went wrong in Flint water crisis: White House
ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE (Reuters) – President Barack Obama wants to find out what happened in Flint, Michigan where a switch in water supplies led to a variety of health problems, the White House said on Wednesday.
