Suspicious envelopes mailed to Oregon police contained no toxins: FBI
PORTLAND, Ore. (Reuters) – Twenty suspicious letters delivered to Oregon law enforcement agencies, including a rural sheriff who was sent to a hospital after opening one of them, showed no evidence of a toxic substance, the FBI said on Tuesday.
New York police used improper force arresting teen, review finds
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A city review board has concluded that a New York police officer used improper physical force when he shoved a handcuffed teenager through the plate-glass window of a Bronx bar during his arrest last spring, the boy’s attorney said…
New Mexico dispatcher told woman with dying teen to ‘deal with it’
(Reuters) – A New Mexico emergency dispatcher has been placed on leave after he told a woman attending to a shot and dying 17-year-old boy to “deal with it yourself” during an argument on the telephone, fire officials said on Tuesday.
U.S. Senate aims to vote on defunding Planned Parenthood
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is planning a vote in coming days on Republican legislation halting federal funding for Planned Parenthood, following the release of secretly recorded videos about its role in supplying…
Second suspect in 10 days dies in custody of Houston police
AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) – Houston police are investigating the deaths of two suspects in their custody in the past 10 days, incidents that have come as national attention has been focused on Texas police after a black woman was found hanged in a jail c…
Florida cop on leave after video of him tossing peanuts to prisoner
(Reuters) – A Florida police officer has been placed on leave after jail video showed him throwing peanuts to a handcuffed homeless man as though feeding an animal, authorities said on Tuesday.
Teen arrested after body of missing California girl found
San Francisco (Reuters) – Authorities have arrested a 15-year-old boy in connection with the death of an 8-year-old girl missing since Sunday whose body was discovered in a recycling bin at a residential complex in Santa Cruz, California, police said.
Seattle officer who arrested black man with golf club should be fired: watchdog probe
SEATTLE (Reuters) – A white Seattle officer should be fired for biased and improper policing after she arrested an elderly black man using a golf club as a cane during a walk last summer, the director of a police watchdog group said on Tuesday.
Detroit-area teens charged with selling iPhone boxes filled with Play-Doh
DETROIT (Reuters) – Three Detroit-area teenagers have been charged with selling fake new Apple iPhones to a local business that were made of Play-Doh modeling compound, police said on Tuesday.
Fires in U.S. West threaten thousands of structures
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Fires burning in drought-parched California on Tuesday menaced thousands of structures as firefighters struggled to corral the blazes there and elsewhere in the U.S. West, authorities said.
