Trial of alleged Virginia serial killer gets under way
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The trial of an eccentric former Virginia political candidate charged with murdering three people over an 11-year period started on Monday with jury selection.
California governor signs bill legalizing physician-assisted suicide
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (Reuters) – Physician-assisted suicide will become legal in California under a bill signed into law on Monday by Democratic Governor Jerry Brown, despite intense opposition from some religious and disability rights groups.
Tennessee boy, 11, held for killing 8-year-old girl over puppies: sheriff
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (Reuters) – An 11-year-old eastern Tennessee boy was in custody for murder on Monday for shooting and killing an 8-year-old neighbor girl with a shotgun because she would not show him her puppies, authorities said.
Gun safety group recommends action by president
CHICAGO (Reuters) – A gun safety group urged the White House on Monday to take a series of steps it said would help prevent the kind of mass shooting that killed 10 people at an Oregon community college last week and renewed the debate on gun control.
L.A. to pay $2.85 million for black man’s death in police custody
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Attorneys for the city of Los Angeles have agreed to pay $2.85 million to the family of a black grandfather who died in police custody after being shot with an electric stun gun and placed in a choke hold, according to court rec…
Pilot falls ill, dies on American flight from Phoenix to Boston
(Reuters) – A pilot fell ill and died on an American Airlines flight headed to Boston from Phoenix on Monday and the copilot landed the plane safely in Syracuse, New York, airline and police officials said.
Two arrested in Arkansas for threatening attacks at schools
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (Reuters) – A 14-year-old Arkansas junior high school student suspected of posting a warning on social media that he would “shoot up” a school near his home was charged on Monday with first-degree terroristic threatening, police said….
Philadelphia woman who kidnapped child given 40 years to life
(Reuters) – A woman who wore traditional Muslim dress to pose as the mother of a 5-year-old girl so she could take the child from a Philadelphia school and sexually assault her was sentenced on Monday to 40 years to life in prison, prosecutors said.
Supreme Court opens new term, with major cases brewing
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – With cases over affirmative action, voting rights and other contentious issues waiting in the wings, the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday opened its new term as the nine justices took to the bench for the first time since a flurry of…
Trial begins of deputies, nurse in Georgia jail death
ATLANTA (Reuters) – Jury selection began on Monday in the criminal trial of two former deputies and a jail nurse in the death of a restrained Nigerian college student in a Savannah, Georgia jail cell.
