$10,000 in rewards offered as California police hunt fugitive murder suspect
(Reuters) – Reward money totaling $10,000 has been offered in the search for a man wanted in a crime spree that included a killing and kidnapping as police in California on Thursday scoured mountain ranges and high desert for the suspect.
Fifteen U.S. states seek to block EPA carbon rule
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Fifteen state attorneys general petitioned a federal court in Washington on Thursday to block new U.S. rules to curb carbon emissions from power plants, in the first of several expected legal challenges to the Obama administratio…
Judge OKs settlement with families of Newtown massacre victims
BETHEL, Conn. (Reuters) – A Connecticut judge on Thursday approved the largest portion yet of a settlement in which the estate of the mother of the gunman who carried out a 2012 massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary school will pay out $1.5 million to fami…
Mentally ill killer of five gets life without parole in Georgia
ATLANTA (Reuters) – A Georgia man who killed five people earlier this year, including members of his family, will spend the rest of his life in prison after pleading guilty but mentally ill, authorities said Thursday.
California bans secret hearings on most police shooting deaths
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (Reuters) – California will no longer assign grand juries to investigate most deaths of people killed by police under a law signed this week by Democratic Governor Jerry Brown.
Connecticut’s top court bans death penalty in state
(Reuters) – Connecticut’s top court on Thursday ruled that the state could no longer impose the death penalty, calling it unconstitutionally cruel and unusual punishment.
State of emergency in Ferguson, Missouri, extended at least 24 hours
(Reuters) – The government of St. Louis County extended for at least 24 hours a state of emergency in Ferguson, Missouri, which has been the scene of protests a year after an unarmed black teenager was killed by a white police officer.
Chicago to argue for pension reforms before state high court in November
CHICAGO (Reuters) – Lawyers for the city of Chicago will appear before the Illinois Supreme Court in November to argue that a law aimed at shoring up two of the city’s financially shaky public pensions is constitutional, according to a Thursday court o…
Pennsylvania man’s 1982 murder conviction thrown out on new DNA evidence
HARRISBURG, Pa. (Reuters) – A man convicted in 1982 in the rape and murder of a 15-year-old girl was freed from a Pennsylvania prison on Thursday thanks to new DNA testing after spending more than three decades behind bars filing repeated appeals procl…
Clemson student ‘forced’ to walk rail before death, witness says -media
(Reuters) – Family members of a Clemson University fraternity member who died after plunging headfirst off a bridge say new information shows he was “forced” to balance on the bridge’s railing in the moments before he died, according to a report Thursd…
