U.S. justices skeptical of immigrant’s deportation appeal
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A majority of U.S. Supreme Court justices on Tuesday questioned whether a legal immigrant from the Dominican Republic who pleaded guilty in New York to attempted arson in 1999 has grounds to appeal his threatened deportation.
Former Wal-Mart executive, three others hurt when plane parachutes onto Arkansas road
(Reuters) – A small airplane piloted by a former Wal-Mart Stores Inc executive parachuted onto a Fayetteville, Arkansas, street on Tuesday after encountering difficulty, injuring the three people on board and the driver of a pickup truck.
Four charged in rappelling protest at NFL game in North Carolina
(Reuters) – Four people have been charged after protesters rappelled from an overhang of a stadium in North Carolina during an NFL game to protest construction of a natural gas export project in Maryland, Charlotte-Mecklenburg police said Tuesday.
Three-quarters of U.S. OPM hack victims still in dark
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Fewer than a quarter of 21 million federal workers hit by a major computer hack have been officially told that their personal information was compromised, six months after the breach was detected, a U.S. government official said …
Eight Virginia officers injured in fight with naked man
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Eight Virginia police officers were recovering on Tuesday from injuries during an attack by a naked man who allegedly set fire to his apartment, police said.
Top New York lawmaker ‘betrayed’ people for own profit -prosecutors
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Sheldon Silver, one of New York State’s most influential lawmakers for two decades, abused his position to earn millions of dollars in illegal kickbacks, federal prosecutors told a jury on Tuesday.
Texas attorney general’s lawyers ask judge to toss fraud charges
DALLAS (Reuters) – Lawyers for Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton have asked a state judge to dismiss a felony securities fraud indictment that threatens his political career, arguing in court filings that the grand jury investigation was flawed.
Connecticut man charged with murdering parents in dispute over will
BRIDGEPORT, Conn. (Reuters) – A Connecticut man was formally charged on Tuesday with murdering his parents, three months after they disappeared and days after their dismembered bodies were found buried in a suburban backyard not far from where they onc…
Regulators point to fuel supply line problem in Florida plane fire
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Federal regulators looking for the cause of a fire aboard a jet that was taxiing at a Florida airport last week said on Tuesday they had found that the plane’s main fuel supply line coupling assembly had disconnected.
Missouri scheduled to execute man for 1994 triple murder
(Reuters) – Missouri on Tuesday plans to execute a man who murdered three people in the robbery of a convenience store in 1994.
