Texas man sentenced to about five years in prison for mineral rights fraud
FORT WORTH, Texas (Reuters) – A Texas man who confessed to running a fraud scheme on his employer, a subsidiary of oil and gas major ExxonMobil, has been sentenced to just over five years in federal prison, officials said on Friday.
FBI investigating California massacre as ‘act of terrorism’
SAN BERNARDINO, Calif./WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The FBI is investigating this week’s massacre of 14 people by a married couple in California as an “act of terrorism,” officials said on Friday, noting that the female shooter had pledged allegiance to a le…
Federal charges for 25 New Mexico prison gang members
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (Reuters) – Twenty-five members of New Mexico’s largest and most violent prison gang have been indicted on federal racketeering charges that allege some committed crimes including murder, attempted murder and assault, U.S. prosecutors…
Exclusive: Investigators piece together portrait of Pakistani woman in shooting massacre
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – Tashfeen Malik’s path to accused mass killer in California began in a small city on the Indus River in Pakistan’s Punjab province.
U.S. fund manager accused of faking own death is convicted of fraud
(Reuters) – A New York City hedge fund manager who allegedly faked his own death to conceal his fraud was convicted on Friday for stealing more than $800,000 from investors he solicited, New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman said on Friday.
New York City mayor urges city pension funds to divest gun stocks
NEW YORK (Reuters) – New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio urged the city’s pension funds on Friday to divest their holdings in stocks of gun makers after this week’s mass shooting in San Bernardino, California.
Arizona couple convicted of imprisoning, abusing daughters
TUCSON, Ariz. (Reuters) – A jury convicted an Arizona couple of kidnapping and child abuse on Friday after a trial in which their three daughters described being beaten and held in prison-like conditions, deprived of sleep and subjected to bizarre ritu…
Boston police blow up suspicious suitcase, no threat found
BOSTON (Reuters) – Police blew up an unattended suitcase found near a U.S. Coast Guard facility in Boston on Friday, but later determined it posed no threat, Police Commissioner William Evans said.
Blizzardy Buffalo turns balmy, breaks 116-year record for no snow
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The notoriously snowy city of Buffalo, which was buried under nearly seven feet of powder in a single storm by this time last fall, on Friday broke a 116-year-old record for its longest period without measurable snow, meteorologist…
Prosecutors weigh charges in South Carolina slain motorist case: lawyers
CHARLESTON, S.C. (Reuters) – The Justice Department is considering filing federal charges against a white former police officer charged by South Carolina prosecutors with killing an unarmed black man who ran from a traffic stop, lawyers in the state ca…
