Arizona governor signs $3.5 billion education plan to end lawsuit
PHOENIX (Reuters) – Arizona Governor Doug Ducey signed legislation on Friday to pump $3.5 billion more into education coffers over the next decade and settle a five-year-old legal dispute.
California doctor convicted of murder by over-prescription
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – A Southern California doctor was found guilty of murder on Friday for over-prescribing drugs that caused the fatal overdose of three patients, in a landmark verdict prosecutors called the first such conviction in the United Stat…
New charges for suspect in road rage killing of New Mexico girl
(Reuters) – A New Mexico man accused of killing a 4-year-old girl by shooting her in the head in a road rage incident last week was also charged on Friday with federal firearms and drug trafficking offenses, court records showed.
Port truckers take wage theft grievances to Los Angeles City Hall
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Striking Southern California port truckers who accuse shipping companies of wage theft took their grievances on Friday to City Hall in Los Angeles, where they gained new political backing for their cause.
Colorado carjacker gets 160 years for crime spree caught on live TV
DENVER (Reuters) – A Colorado man convicted of carjacking three vehicles, including one with a 4-year-old boy inside, was sentenced on Friday to 160 years in prison for the high-speed chase that was seen on live TV, prosecutors said.
Man charged in St. Louis area church fires
ST. LOUIS (Reuters) – A 35-year-old man with an extensive criminal record was charged on Friday in connection with a string of suspected arson fires at St. Louis-area churches, police said.
Two dead as torrential rains, tornadoes lash central Texas
AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) – At least two people were killed when a storm with high winds and heavy rains pelted central Texas on Friday, flooding highways, causing evacuations after rivers overflowed and spawning tornadoes that ripped through buildings o…
U.S. charges Burkina Faso man with fraud over bogus malaria nets
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A Burkina Faso man has been criminally charged by U.S. prosecutors in New York over an alleged $12.2 million fraud in which he put millions of people in his home country at risk for malaria by distributing bogus mosquito nets.
Cemetery association cleared in four-year-old’s tombstone crushing death
SALT LAKE CITY (Reuters) – A cemetery association in Utah has been found not responsible for the 2012 death of a 4-year-old boy who was crushed by a tombstone during a summer excursion with his family.
9/11 suspects’ lawyers say U.S. senators may have swayed testimony
FORT MEADE, Md. (Reuters) – Defense attorneys for suspects in the Sept. 11 attacks questioned on Friday whether U.S. lawmakers improperly influenced the legal process during a visit to the Guantanamo Bay military prison.
