U.S. okays $1.5 billion sale of Lockheed Aegis combat system to Japan
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. State Department has approved the likely sale to Japan of two Lockheed Martin Corp Aegis combat systems valued at $1.5 billion, a deal aimed at boosting Japan’s defenses against a ballistic missile attack, the U.S. Defen…
Georgia women arrested on suspicion of caging special-needs children
(Reuters) – A mother was charged with child cruelty and false imprisonment after authorities said her special needs children, an 11-year-old boy and 8-year-old girl, had been kept in homemade cages, investigators said on Friday.
Texas sumo wrestler arrested on kidnapping charge
SAN ANTONIO (Reuters) – A Texas sumo wrestler has been arrested on aggravated kidnapping charges in San Antonio on suspicion of holding a woman captive in an apartment where she may have been sexually abused, police said on Friday.
Woman killed by commuter train in Connecticut: Metro-North
MILFORD, Conn. (Reuters) – An 28-year-old Connecticut woman was killed by a Metro-North express train in Greenwich, Connecticut, on Friday after stepping onto the tracks to try to retrieve a dropped personal item, a railroad spokeswoman said.
California man who took hundreds of ‘up-skirt’ photos gets more jail time
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – A California man who prosecutors say secretly took pictures up the skirts of hundreds of women and is already serving 15 years in prison was sentenced on Friday to five more years behind bars.
Texas judge gives man a choice: get married or go to jail
TEXARKANA, Texas (Reuters) – A 20-year-old East Texas man jumped into a quickly arranged marriage after a judge told him last month he had a choice of getting hitched or spending 15 days in jail on an assault charge.
U.S. sees small number of railroads meeting safety deadline
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Only a small number of U.S. railroads will meet the Dec. 31 deadline for implementing new train safety technology that experts say would have prevented the deadly May 12 Amtrak derailment in Philadelphia, officials said on Friday…
Jury begins deliberations in trial of accused Taliban
RICHMOND, Va. (Reuters) – A U.S. jury on Friday began deliberating the fate of an alleged Russian Taliban fighter, the first military prisoner from Afghanistan to be tried in a U.S. federal court.
Death of Georgia man hit by police stun gun under investigation
ATLANTA (Reuters) – Investigators are probing the death of a man shocked with a stun gun while fleeing police in suburban Atlanta, authorities said on Friday, hours after a grand jury declined to indict another Georgia officer in the fatal shooting of …
Three charged in ‘bizarre’ New York break-in, home occupation
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Three men have been charged with breaking into a New York City home, changing the locks and demanding that the rightful owners turn over the deed, in a case that a prosecutor on Friday called “truly bizarre.”
