Policeman cannot use ‘0INK’ license plate: Indiana Supreme Court
(Reuters) – Indiana acted properly in forbidding a police officer from using a vanity license plate that said “0INK,” the state’s highest court decided on Friday, reversing a lower court ruling.
Man who landed gyrocopter at U.S. Capitol to plead guilty: lawyer
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A Florida man who flew a gyrocopter onto the U.S. Capitol grounds in an effort to advocate for campaign finance reform will plead guilty and face jail time when he appears in federal court this month, his lawyer said Friday.Dougl…
Convicted Russian Taliban fighter to be sentenced in U.S. next month
RICHMOND, Va. (Reuters) – The first enemy combatant from Afghanistan to be found guilty in a U.S. federal court of charges related to helping Taliban fighters will be sentenced next month, a judge ruled on Friday, according to a defense attorney.
Autumn storms make small dent in California drought
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (Reuters) – Fall storms that brought rain and snow to parts of California have made a small but measurable dent in the state’s four-year drought, experts said.
Six die in charter bus crash in Arkansas -police
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (Reuters) – Six people died early on Friday morning when a charter bus veered off an interstate highway in Arkansas and crashed into a concrete barrier and an overpass, according to state police.
Missouri police fatally shoot man who injured relatives with hammer
St. LOUIS (Reuters) – A Missouri man who had seriously wounded his sister and nephew with a hammer was shot to death by police after he repeatedly refused orders to drop his weapon, an official said on Friday.
New York woman who aided prison escape to pay $80,000 restitution
PLATTSBURGH, N.Y. (Reuters) – A former prison worker who helped two convicted killers escape from a maximum security lockup in upstate New York earlier this year will pay nearly $80,000 in restitution to repair damage caused by the inmates in preparing…
N.Y. jurors urged to convict accused mobster for ‘Goodfellas’ heist
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Federal prosecutors urged a New York jury on Friday to convict an octogenarian mobster for his role in an infamous 1978 airport heist that helped inspire the movie “Goodfellas.”
Texas jury begins deliberations of man charged with murdering four at SXSW
AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) – The man charged with murdering four people by plowing his car into a South by Southwest festival crowd last year heard the thuds of bodies hitting metal and kept on speeding down Austin streets, prosecutors said in closing sta…
U.S. Coast Guard searching for passenger fallen from cruise ship
MIAMI (Reuters) – U.S. Coast Guard search-and-rescue crews were searching on Friday for a 35-year-old Brazilian man who fell from a cruise ship at night in the Bahamas, officials said.
