Family of New York chokehold victim renews calls to charge officer
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The family of Eric Garner, a black man who died after a white police officer put him in a chokehold a year ago, renewed calls to criminally charge the police officer on Tuesday, a day after the family reached a $5.9 million settlem…
Wisconsin asks federal court to clarify food stamp drug testing law
MILWAUKEE (Reuters) – Wisconsin’s attorney general on Tuesday filed a lawsuit against the U.S. government, asking a federal judge if the state can drug test some food stamp recipients, a policy supported by Republican Governor Scott Walker, a president…
Planned Parenthood slams secret video as false portrayal of fetus tissue program
(Reuters) – Planned Parenthood said on Tuesday a secretly recorded video that surfaced on the Internet falsely portrayed the reproductive health group’s participation in the sale of tissue and body parts from aborted fetuses.
Missouri executes first inmate since Supreme Court ruling
(Reuters) – Missouri on Tuesday put to death a man convicted of murdering a 19-year-old woman he encountered in a traffic accident in 2001, in the first execution in the United States since the Supreme Court upheld the use of a lethal injection drug.
Tale of beer served for fallen U.S. soldier spreads online
(Reuters) – A Washington state bartender who fulfilled a woman’s request to serve a beer for a brother who died fighting with U.S. forces in Iraq is honoring the man by keeping the bottle on display next to an American flag, in a story that has spread …
Trial over fate of frozen embryos underway in San Francisco
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – A California judge will soon be asked to decide whether a woman can use frozen embryos against the wishes of her ex-husband to destroy them in a case that could set a new legal precedent in the nation’s most populous state.
On Newport’s Cliff Walk, ‘love locks’ may not be forever
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (Reuters) – They say the whole world loves a lover, but in Newport, Rhode Island, at least, not everyone is fond of the so-called “love locks” that sweethearts are leaving along the resort city’s famed seaside Cliff Walk.
Five arrested in 4th of July Connecticut shooting, bombing death
MILFORD, Conn. (Reuters) – Connecticut police have arrested five people in connection with the murder of their housemate, who investigators said was shot and then blown to bits by a pipe bomb on July 4 in the suburbs of New Haven.
Man found guilty in 2012 Indiana home blast that killed neighbors
(Reuters) – An Indiana jury on Tuesday found a man guilty of murder and arson for trying to burn down a house for insurance money in November 2012, an act which sparked an explosion that killed two neighbors and damaged scores of nearby homes.
Colorado movie gunman had mass murder ‘in heart and mind’: prosecutor
CENTENNIAL, Colo. (Reuters) – A prosecutor broke down on Tuesday as he said the man in black who gunned down a dozen people in a Colorado movie theater had nothing but “mass murder” on his mind when he went on the rampage three years ago.
