Georgia prisoner charged in sheriff’s killing escapes in transit
ATLANTA (Reuters) – A Georgia prisoner charged with killing a sheriff escaped on Tuesday while being transported between jails, according to state law enforcement officials helping try to recapture him.
VW opposing UAW skilled trades worker vote at Tennessee plant
DETROIT (Reuters) – Volkswagen AG opposes a union representation vote by a small group of workers at the automaker’s sole U.S. vehicle assembly plant, according to a letter to Chattanooga, Tennessee, employees issued on Monday night.
California runner sues Nike after breaking leg on ‘dream run’
PORTLAND, Ore. (Reuters) – A Los Angeles distance runner who fell and broke her leg on a Nike Inc “dream run” adventure in Iceland has sued the sportswear maker for $1.3 million, claiming the run was unsafe, according to her lawsuit.
Man gets five-year sentence for attempted arson in Ferguson, Missouri
(Reuters) – A federal judge sentenced a St. Louis County man to five years in prison for trying to burn down a store in Ferguson, Missouri, during riots after a grand jury declined to charge a white officer who had killed an unarmed black 18-year-old.
U.S. justices skeptical of immigrant’s deportation appeal
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A majority of U.S. Supreme Court justices on Tuesday questioned whether a legal immigrant from the Dominican Republic who pleaded guilty in New York to attempted arson in 1999 has grounds to appeal his threatened deportation.
Former Wal-Mart executive, three others hurt when plane parachutes onto Arkansas road
(Reuters) – A small airplane piloted by a former Wal-Mart Stores Inc executive parachuted onto a Fayetteville, Arkansas, street on Tuesday after encountering difficulty, injuring the three people on board and the driver of a pickup truck.
Four charged in rappelling protest at NFL game in North Carolina
(Reuters) – Four people have been charged after protesters rappelled from an overhang of a stadium in North Carolina during an NFL game to protest construction of a natural gas export project in Maryland, Charlotte-Mecklenburg police said Tuesday.
Three-quarters of U.S. OPM hack victims still in dark
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Fewer than a quarter of 21 million federal workers hit by a major computer hack have been officially told that their personal information was compromised, six months after the breach was detected, a U.S. government official said …
Eight Virginia officers injured in fight with naked man
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Eight Virginia police officers were recovering on Tuesday from injuries during an attack by a naked man who allegedly set fire to his apartment, police said.
Top New York lawmaker ‘betrayed’ people for own profit -prosecutors
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Sheldon Silver, one of New York State’s most influential lawmakers for two decades, abused his position to earn millions of dollars in illegal kickbacks, federal prosecutors told a jury on Tuesday.
