Penn State’s Sandusky wins partial victory in bid for child-sex retrial
HARRISBURG, Pa. (Reuters) – A state judge on Thursday ordered Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane to turn over any documents she holds that might suggest the victims of convicted child sex offender Jerry Sandusky had a financial incentive to sh…
Pentagon chief fires military assistant, cites misconduct allegations
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter removed his senior military assistant, Lieutenant General Ron Lewis, from his position on Thursday over allegations of misconduct that Carter said he learned of this week.
Crew spoke about weather before deadly Ohio jet crash: officials
CLEVELAND (Reuters) – Thirty minutes of cockpit audio recording recovered from a business jet in Ohio revealed that crew members were discussing weather conditions and landing before a crash that killed all nine people on board, federal officials said …
Utah judge orders foster child removed from married lesbian couple
SALT LAKE CITY (Reuters) – A married lesbian couple in Utah are reported to be readying a legal challenge to a judge’s decision ordering them to relinquish custody of a foster child because of their sexual orientation.
Texas tries to stitch a safety net without Planned Parenthood
MCALLEN, Texas(Reuters) – Four years after cutting off funding for Planned Parenthood, the state of Texas says it has been able to rebuild its safety net, in what could be a model for Republicans in Congress who hope to defund the nation’s largest fami…
Reputed New York mobster, 80, cleared in 1978 ‘Goodfellas’ heist
NEW YORK (Reuters) – An 80-year-old reputed mobster was found not guilty on Thursday of participating in a brazen 1978 New York airport heist that helped inspire the Mafia movie “Goodfellas.”
Missouri man, charged with threat to shoot black students, denied bail
COLUMBIA, Mo. (Reuters) – A 19-year-old white Missouri man charged with making terrorist threats on social media to shoot black students at the University of Missouri campus was denied bond on Thursday, and court documents said he expressed a “deep int…
Illinois university settles with professor who criticized Israel
CHICAGO (Reuters) – The University of Illinois said on Thursday that it would pay $875,000 to settle a lawsuit by a professor who lost out on a tenured position after he made Twitter postings critical of Israel.
Mormons to resign in Utah protest at church’s gay marriage stance
(Reuters) – Hundreds of Mormons plan to resign from the church in Salt Lake City this weekend at a protest against a church policy barring the children of married same-sex couples from receiving baptism, organizers said on Thursday.
Law clerk in trading fraud involving chewed napkins pleads guilty
(Reuters) – A former clerk at a prestigious New York law firm on Thursday became the third and final defendant to plead guilty in an insider trading scheme in which an accomplice ate evidence written on napkins to conceal the fraud, federal prosecutors…
