Virginia college fraternity suspended over lewd banners
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A college fraternity was suspended on Monday from a Virginia university over the display of banners containing lewd, sexually suggestive messages welcoming freshmen women to campus, fraternity and school officials said.
Judge overhauls troubled Ferguson, Missouri, court
(Reuters) – A new municipal judge in Ferguson, Missouri, on Monday ordered sweeping changes to court practices in response to a scathing Justice Department report following the shooting of unarmed black teenager Michael Brown a year ago.
New England prep school rape defendant had list of targets: friend
CONCORD, N.H. (Reuters) – Friends of a former student at an elite New Hampshire prep school who is on trial for allegedly raping a younger student described in court testimony on Monday a young man who had made a list of girls he wanted to have sex wit…
Heroes who thwarted France train attack to get California parade
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (Reuters) – Three young men who disarmed a gunman on a high-speed train bound for Paris will get a heroes’ welcome in their hometown in California, the mayor of Sacramento said on Monday.
Colorado movie gunman is ‘monster’ destined for ‘hell,’ victim says
CENTENNIAL, Colo. (Reuters) – The Colorado movie massacre gunman is destined for the “darkest, most painful part of hell,” a sobbing victim testified on Monday at the start of a three-day hearing after which James Holmes will be formally sentenced to l…
Judge fines Final Exit group convicted of assisting Minnesota suicide
MINNEAPOLIS (Reuters) – A Minnesota judge on Monday fined the national right-to-die group Final Exit Network $30,000 on its criminal conviction for assisting a woman’s suicide in 2007.
Louisiana trooper dies after being shot in head
(Reuters) – A Louisiana trooper died on Monday after being shot in the head with a sawed-off shotgun a day earlier when he pulled over to assist a driver, and authorities were also investigating whether the driver played a role in a second death.
Bus slams into NYC building, six injured
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Six people were injured on Monday when a bus crashed into a building in the Queens area of New York City, a spokesman for the Fire Department of New York said.
‘Mystic Pizza’ owner sentenced to year in prison for tax evasion
BRIDGEPORT, Conn. (Reuters) – The owner of the Connecticut restaurant that was the setting for the 1988 movie “Mystic Pizza” was sentenced on Monday to a year and a day in prison in federal court for tax evasion and hiding hundreds of thousands of doll…
White supremacist warned after statement on hatred of Jews in Kansas murder trial
KANSAS CITY, Kan. (Reuters) – A judge warned a Missouri white supremacist, accused of murdering three people outside two Kansas City-area Jewish centers, not to speak about his hatred of Jews in the opening statement of his trial on Monday.
