Los Angeles schools reopen after threat prompted closure
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Public schools in Los Angeles reopened on Wednesday, a day after local officials canceled classes for all 640,000 students in the nation’s second-largest school district over a threatened attack with bombs and guns that was late…
Man pleads not guilty to arson, hate crime at California mosque
(Reuters) – A 23-year-old man suspected of setting a fire at a Southern California mosque in a hate attack following the massacre of 14 people by a Muslim couple pleaded not guilty on Wednesday, officials said.
Two Seattle-area students charged with making lynching threat
SEATTLE (Reuters) – Two Seattle-area teenagers were arraigned on Wednesday on felony hate crime charges of making racist online threats against black students at their high school, including talk of “lynching,” police said.
California shooter was not fully investigated before U.S. visa was issued
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. authorities in Pakistan could have sought – but did not – a full background security investigation of San Bernardino shooter Tashfeen Malik before granting her a visa to enter the United States in 2014, according to a U.S. o…
Racism, misconduct plague California prison, report finds
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (Reuters) – A remote California prison has a culture of racism and abuse that is exacerbated by a code of silence among its guards and staff, the state’s inspector general said Wednesday.
Warrant out for ‘affluenza’ Texas teen for suspected probation violation
FORT WORTH, Texas (Reuters) – A warrant has been issued for a Texas teenager, described at trial as afflicted with “affluenza,” for suspected violation of the terms of the probation deal that kept him out of prison after he killed four people in a drun…
Baltimore on edge after hung jury in policeman’s manslaughter trial
BALTIMORE (Reuters) – A mistrial was declared on Wednesday in the case of a Baltimore police officer charged in the death of Freddie Gray, a black man whose killing while in custody sparked riots in April, and the city’s mayor urged calm.
Ex-N.Y. legislator’s son-in-law gets 2 years in prison for fraud
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A son-in-law of indicted former New York Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver was sentenced to two years in prison on Wednesday for running a Ponzi scheme that defrauded investors out of nearly $6 million.
Federal officials meet with Chicago police over practices
CHICAGO (Reuters) – U.S. Department of Justice officials began meeting with Chicago police on Wednesday, three weeks after the release of a video showing a white officer shooting a black teen 16 times, which spurred calls for Mayor Rahm Emanuel to resi…
Pennsylvania couple handed long sentences in son’s starvation death
HARRISBURG, Pa. (Reuters) – A Pennsylvania man and his wife were each sentenced to up to four decades in state prison on Wednesday after pleading guilty in the murder of their disabled nine-year-old son, who was found starved to death in a dark, feces-…
