Mormon church expands on stance toward children of gay marriage
(Reuters) – Mormon church leaders elaborated on Friday about a recent policy on children in same sex marriages that drew fire from rights activists and prompted hundreds of members to say they planned to resign.
Michigan woman sentenced in 1998 death of her granddaughter
DETROIT (Reuters) – An elderly Michigan woman was sentenced on Friday to nine to 25 years in prison in the 1998 death of her granddaughter.
Hired-gun hacking played key role in JPMorgan, Fidelity breaches
NEW YORK/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – When U.S. prosecutors this week charged two Israelis and an American fugitive with raking in hundreds of millions of dollars in one of the largest and most complex cases of cyber fraud ever exposed, they also provided…
Illinois appeals court upholds wife-killer cop’s conviction
(Reuters) – An Illinois appeals court on Friday upheld the conviction of a former Chicago-area police officer who was found guilty of killing his third wife during their contentious divorce in 2004.
Texas county says woman killed herself when no one bailed her out
DALLAS (Reuters) – Lawyers for a Texas county sued by the family of black woman found hanged in a jail cell said she committed suicide because she was despondent over her relatives refusing to bail her out.
Hearing on Boston Marathon bomber’s retrial motion set for December 1
BOSTON (Reuters) – A federal court in Massachusetts set Dec. 1 as the date to hear a motion by lawyers for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev seeking a new trial in the deadly bombing at the finish line of the 2013 Boston Marathon.
U.S. court keeps college football player sidelined in heatstroke case
(Reuters) – A U.S. federal appeals court in Virginia ruled on Friday that a college football player who nearly died from heatstroke during a practice two years ago cannot rejoin the team at Towson University in Maryland, overturning a lower court’s dec…
‘NCIS’ actress Pauley Perrette assaulted in Hollywood
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Pauley Perrette, an actress on the popular U.S. television show “NCIS,” was attacked in Los Angeles by a homeless man who punched her repeatedly in the face and made her fear for her life, she said in a social media post.
Second suspect in New York Penn Station shooting held in Rhode Island
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A second suspect in a fatal shooting near New York’s Penn Station was apprehended in Cranston, Rhode Island, just days after the gunfire erupted outside the major transportation hub, authorities said on Friday.
Supreme court to decide major abortion case for first time since 2007
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court took up a major new abortion case on Friday, agreeing to hear a challenge by abortion providers to parts of a restrictive, Republican-backed Texas law that they contend are aimed at shutting clinics that of…
