Ex-San Francisco 49ers player Ray McDonald charged with rape
(Reuters) – Former San Francisco 49ers defensive end Ray McDonald has been charged with rape by intoxication, and current 49ers linebacker Ahmad Brooks has been charged with sexual battery of the same woman on the same night, prosecutors said on Wednes…
Policeman shot to death and three women stabbed, one fatally, in Louisiana
(Reuters) – Police firing tear gas stormed a grocery market in southwestern Louisiana on Wednesday to arrest a man accused of shooting a police officer to death and stabbing three women, one fatally, before barricading himself inside the store, authori…
U.S. court approves Corinthian Colleges’ liquidation plan: WSJ
(Reuters) – A U.S. bankruptcy judge has approved Corinthian Colleges Inc’s plan to liquidate its assets, facilitating the company’s final winding-down process, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday.
‘We’re all right,’ train hero tells Dad. ‘But something has happened’
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (Reuters) – The Rev. Tony Sadler, whose son Anthony was one of three Sacramento friends who subdued a gunman on a high-speed train bound for Paris, was sitting in a Sacramento barber’s chair last Friday when his phone buzzed from an …
Arizona severs ties with prison operator over violent uprisings
PHOENIX (Reuters) – Arizona will fire the private operator running a state prison after three major uprisings that caused extensive damage and forced more than 1,200 inmates to be relocated, Governor Doug Ducey said on Wednesday.
Supporters seek to put Nebraska death penalty to voters in 2016
(Reuters) – An activist group seeking to override the Nebraska legislature’s abolition of the death penalty submitted nearly three times as many signatures as needed on Wednesday to put the question to voters in 2016.
New Hampshire rape trial defendant says sexual encounter was consensual
CONCORD, N.H. (Reuters) – A former student on trial for rape in a case that has cast a harsh light on the culture of an elite New Hampshire prep school testified on Wednesday that he had a consensual sexual encounter with his 15-year-old accuser that s…
Pennsylvania court unseals pornographic emails sent by officials
HARRISBURG, Pa. (Reuters) – Pennsylvania’s highest court on Wednesday unsealed a trove of pornographic emails exchanged by state officials years ago that Attorney General Kathleen Kane said her political enemies wanted to suppress and her foes said she…
Video links white supremacist to Kansas killings: prosecutors
OLATHE, Kan. (Reuters) – Prosecutors presented witnesses, video and forensic evidence on Wednesday they said proved white supremacist Frazier Glenn Cross fatally shot three people outside two Jewish centers in Kansas last year.
Chicago fire destroys Second City comedy offices, spares theater
CHICAGO (Reuters) – A fire destroyed the Second City comedy offices, but largely spared the theater of the sketch and improv company in Chicago that has helped launch the careers of many comedians, the Chicago Fire Department said.
