Lawyers argue for last time over life of Colorado movie gunman
CENTENNIAL, Colo. (Reuters) – Prosecutors said execution is the only appropriate sentence for the “horror and evil” wrought by Colorado movie massacre gunman James Holmes, while the defense asked jurors on Thursday if they were ready to sign the death …
New York police criticized for ‘weaponized marijuana’ videos
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The New York Police Department faced criticism on Thursday after it emerged that video clips it used to show the crazed affects of smoking synthetic marijuana were of men high on other drugs.
Nashville assailant may have wanted to blow up cinema: police
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (Reuters) – The hatchet-wielding man shot by police after an attack on a Nashville-area movie theater on Wednesday had a propane canister and lighter fluid on him that he may have wanted to use to set off an explosion, police said on T…
U.S. tightens visa waiver program amid foreign fighters concerns
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States announced tighter security measures on Thursday for visitors from the 38 countries in its visa waiver program, which include European nations that have seen hundreds of residents traveling to fight with militant…
Accused Taliban fighter declines to testify as U.S. trial winds to close
RICHMOND, Va. (Reuters) – The first Taliban fighter from the Afghan war to be tried in a U.S. federal court declined to testify in his own defense on Thursday as the precedent-setting case wound toward a close.
University of Oregon settles rape lawsuit against basketball players
PORTLAND, Ore. (Reuters) – The University of Oregon has settled a lawsuit filed by a student who said she was raped by three players on the school’s basketball team, lawyers and university officials said on Thursday. 
Ten years on, Hurricane Katrina’s scars endure for black New Orleans
NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) – A decade after Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans seems to have found its rhythm again: the French Quarter is choked with tourists, construction cranes tower over the skyline, and hipsters bike to cafes in gentrifying neighborhoods….
FBI hopes grainy video will help solve 25-year-old $500 million art heist
BOSTON (Reuters) – Federal investigators in Boston on Thursday released 25-year-old surveillance video showing a security guard admitting a man to the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum the night before it was robbed of $500 million worth of art in the la…
Florida police locate inmate escaped from work-release center
(Reuters) – A Florida inmate briefly escaped his minimum-security facility near West Palm Beach early on Thursday, sending state law enforcement on a manhunt for the second area escapee this week, police said.
Cincinnati halts traffic stops by campus police after shooting
(Reuters) – Cincinnati has suspended an agreement that allowed university police officers to make traffic stops off their campuses after a July incident in which a white campus officers shot and killed an unarmed black man, city officials said on Wedne…
