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.
Massive fissure mysteriously opens in Wyoming mountains
(Reuters) – A massive fissure that has mysteriously appeared on the flanks of the Bighorn Mountains in Wyoming is a slow-moving landslide possibly triggered by excessive precipitation combined with moisture from a nearby spring, a state geologist said …
Man launched from car onto overhead sign in fatal California crash
(Reuters) – A motorist was launched from his car and onto an overhead freeway sign in a fatal crash near Los Angeles on Friday morning, officials said.
Mass release of U.S. prisoners spells deportation for hundreds
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Almost a third of 6,000 federal prisoners scheduled to be freed between Friday and Tuesday, part of a push to reduce America’s soaring incarceration rate, will immediately be turned over to U.S. immigration authorities for deport…
Two passengers still in hospital in Florida as plane fire investigated
MIAMI (Reuters) – Two adult passengers remained hospitalized as National Transportation Safety Board investigators began examining the engine on a Venezuela-bound 767 airplane that burst into flames before takeoff on Thursday at a South Florida airport…
