Guantanamo court in closed hearing on replacing 9/11 suspect’s lawyer
FORT MEADE, Md. (Reuters) – A Guantanamo Bay court went into closed pre-trial session on Wednesday to hear why a Yemeni Sept. 11 suspect should be allowed to replace a lawyer in the slow-moving death penalty case.
U.S. seeks 30 years to life for man convicted in British bomb plot
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A Pakistani man convicted in March in a U.S. court of conspiring with al Qaeda to bomb a shopping center in Manchester, England should spend 30 years to life in prison, U.S. prosecutors said.
Sheriff’s deputy to be fired in South Carolina classroom altercation: MSNBC
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The white sheriff’s deputy who was caught on video flipping a black high school student out of her classroom chair in Columbia, South Carolina, will be relieved of duty, MSNBC reported on Wednesday.
‘Disturbing’ arrest of black S. Carolina student sparks federal, local probes
(This October 27 story has been corrected in paragraph 2 to change girl’s age to 16 from 18 after sheriff’s office corrected information)
As U.S. braces for Syrian refugees, mental health services lag
WASHINGTON/DEARBORN, Mich. (Reuters) – More than 20 years after Saddam Hussein’s soldiers in Iraq killed his brother in front of him, Ali Alghazally still suffers from night terrors he blames on post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), a common problem a…
Labor friction escalates between California port truckers, shippers
LONG BEACH, Calif. (Reuters) – Long-simmering labor tensions between Southern California port truckers and shipping companies they accuse of wage theft escalated on Tuesday as a group of drivers demanded recognition as full-fledged employees and petiti…
Two people dead after explosion at Oregon gun range
(Reuters) – Two people died in an explosion inside a World War Two era tank at a public gun range in Oregon on Tuesday, authorities said.
Earthquake risk analysis shows U.S. nuclear plants safe: NRC
(Reuters) – Nuclear power plants in the United States are safe to continue operating but need to conduct an in-depth analysis where appropriate, as far as earthquake hazards are concerned, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) said on Tuesday.
One killed, college students injured in Pennsylvania crash
HARRISBURG, Pa. (Reuters) – A bus carrying members of the Lehigh University rowing teams collided with a car on a Pennsylvania highway on Tuesday, killing one person in the car and sending students to hospitals with minor injuries, police and campus of…
Los Angeles council OKs law requiring handguns to be locked up
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Handgun owners in Los Angeles would have to keep their weapons locked in a box or disabled with a trigger lock under a measure aimed at protecting children that was given unanimous approval on Tuesday by the city council.
