Ohio voters weigh legalizing recreational marijuana use
CLEVELAND (Reuters) – Ohio voters will decide Tuesday on whether to become the first Midwestern state to legalize the recreational use of marijuana, though a rival ballot measure could kill the law before it takes effect.
Seattle ex-ski coach admits to filming teenage girls undressing
SEATTLE (Reuters) – A former Seattle private school cross-country ski coach pleaded guilty on Monday to a sex crime charge for secretly filming teenage girls changing clothes or exiting the shower on annual trips to Canada, a U.S. Attorney’s Office off…
Trial for former Oklahoma police officer accused of rape begins
OKLAHOMA City (Reuters) – The trial of a former Oklahoma City police officer accused of sexually assaulting 13 women while on duty began on Monday.
Former basketball player sues University of Oregon over rape allegations
PORTLAND, Ore. (Reuters) – A former University of Oregon basketball player has sued the school for $7.5 million after it dropped him from the team and barred him from campus last year because of a rape accusation, school officials said on Monday.
Oklahoma mayor’s husband dresses as Klansman for Halloween
OKLAHOMA CITY (Reuters) – The mayor of a small northern Oklahoma town said she was not involved with a group of people including her husband caught on camera dressed as Ku Klux Klan members with robes and a hood on Halloween, authorities have said.
JPMorgan settles California debt collection charges
(Reuters) – JPMorgan Chase & Co will pay $50 million to settle charges that it engaged in abusive credit card debt collection practices against tens of thousands of people in California, state Attorney General Kamala Harris said on Monday.
Pentagon spends $43 million to build Afghanistan gas station: watchdog
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Department of Defense spent nearly $43 million on a gas station in northern Afghanistan and has been unable to explain why it cost so much, a U.S. special inspector reported on Monday.
Posthumous pardon for Delaware man who helped slaves escape in 1847
(Reuters) – Delaware Governor Jack Markell issued a posthumous pardon for Samuel Burris on Monday in the same courtroom where the free black man was convicted 168 years ago of helping slaves escape through the Underground Railroad.
U.S. media challenged not to name perpetrators of mass violence
SAN ANTONIO (Reuters) – Media outlets covering mass shootings should refrain from identifying the attackers in order to prevent similar future attacks, a law-enforcement training and academic group in Texas that focuses on mass killings said on Monday….
U.S. top court wrestles with black death row inmate’s jury claim
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court struggled on Monday over how to resolve an appeal by a black Georgia death row inmate convicted of murdering an elderly white woman in a 1987 trial in which he contends prosecutors unlawfully excluded black…
