Texas tortoise theft leads to arrest of suspected sex offender
AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) – Police investigating a Texas man for holding a tortoise for ransom ended up arresting him on a charge of sexually assaulting a child, officials said on Thursday.
At least five dead in spate of shootings around Boston
BOSTON (Reuters) – At least five people were killed in four apparently unrelated shooting incidents around Boston, police said on Thursday, provoking outrage from the city’s mayor who said the violence “has to stop.”
At drab Philadelphia jail, anxious times precede papal visit
PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) – When Dino Robinson was sent to Philadelphia’s largest jail to await trial, the tattooed, 29-year-old inmate could hardly have imagined he would wind up in the furniture shop upholstering a special chair to be presented to Pope …
Rents for prime U.S. cropland, farmer incomes projected to fall more
CHICAGO (Reuters) – Cash rents for some of the most fertile farmland in the United States fell in the second quarter and are likely to decline again between July and September, according to a survey published on Thursday by the Federal Reserve Bank of …
U.S. military’s transgender care costs ‘negligible,’ study says
LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Transition care for transgender members of the U.S. military would cost around $5.6 million a year, “little more than a rounding error” as a share of total expenditure, according to new research published amid crit…
Los Angeles to pay $15 million to teen with pellet gun paralyzed by police
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – The city of Los Angeles on Wednesday agreed to pay $15 million dollars to the family of a teenager paralyzed in 2010 when he was shot by a police officer who mistook a pellet gun the youth was holding for a real firearm.
Chelsea Manning could face solitary confinement at military prison
(Reuters) – Chelsea Manning, a soldier imprisoned for leaking classified U.S. information to pro-transparency site WikiLeaks, could face solitary confinement on charges she violated prison rules by having prohibited reading material, her attorney said …
Inmate who participated in ‘San Quentin Six’ 1971 escape attempt killed in California prison riot
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (Reuters) – An inmate who had been imprisoned for 50 years and participated in a notorious 1971 escape attempt from San Quentin was killed and numerous others injured in a riot on Wednesday afternoon at a prison outside Sacramento, o…
Former President Carter says he has cancer
(Reuters) – Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter said on Wednesday that recent liver surgery revealed he had cancer that had spread to other parts of his body.
Ohio sets November vote on legalizing marijuana
CLEVELAND (Reuters) – Ohio voters will decide in November whether to legalize marijuana use for treating illnesses and for getting high.
