Scams, ignorance burn foreign buyers of Detroit properties
DETROIT (Reuters) – Buying a property in Detroit a few years ago seemed like a steal for overseas investors – as little as a few thousand dollars would get them a house in a city that had hit rock bottom and could only see better times.
California shooters borrowed $28,000 before attack: source
SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. (Reuters) – A married couple who killed 14 people in a California shooting rampage the FBI is investigating as an act of terrorism borrowed about $28,000 from an online lender, a sum deposited into their bank account about two we…
Ex-police chief from Long Island arrested in beating: reports
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The FBI on Wednesday arrested James Burke, a former police chief of New York’s Suffolk County, for beating a man suspected of breaking into his car in the latest accusation against a U.S. law enforcement officer of violence, accord…
Georgia executes man for 1992 killing over forged checks
ATLANTA (Reuters) – Georgia on Wednesday executed a man convicted in the 1992 murder of a family friend, state officials said, after he lost appeals based on the drug to be used in a lethal injection.
Colorado prosecutors set to charge accused Planned Parenthood shooter
DENVER (Reuters) – The man accused of shooting three people to death and wounding nine others at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado was due in court on Wednesday to face formal charges expected to include multiple counts of first-degree murder.
Lynch says no indication California shooting couple were part of wider cell
LONDON (Reuters) – The United States has no indication that a couple who killed 14 people in California were part of a wider cell or that they planned more attacks, U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch said on Wednesday.
Shooting brings troubled San Bernardino an unwelcome new distinction
SAN BERNARDINO (Reuters) – The list of challenges confronting this blue-collar Southern California enclave was already long: a devastating municipal bankruptcy, high unemployment, foreclosures, homelessness, crime – even a nagging yellow smog that ofte…
Two Afghan trainees reported missing from Georgia Air Force base
(Reuters) – Two men from Afghanistan being trained by the U.S. military have disappeared from an Air Force base in Georgia and were being sought by federal authorities, officials said on Tuesday.
Many Americans struggling to keep up with sky high rents: study
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Record numbers of U.S. renter households are spending more than 30 percent of their income, and in many cases more than half their income, on housing costs, according to a study published on Wednesday.
Pennsylvania Supreme Court justice faces disciplinary hearing over emails
HARRISBURG, Pa. (Reuters) – A Pennsylvania Supreme Court justice accused of using state computers to exchange scores of sexually and racially offensive emails with other judges, prosecutors and lawyers over six years was ordered on Tuesday to face a di…
