IKEA offers repairs for dressers after two children die
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – IKEA North America is offering repairs for 27 million chests of drawers after two children were killed when the dressers tipped over on them, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission said on Wednesday.
LaGuardia, JFK workers suspend plans to strike Wednesday: union
(Reuters) – Command Security Corp employees who work at New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport and LaGuardia Airport have suspended plans to strike on Wednesday, the 32BJ SEIU service workers union said.
Appeals court permanently blocks North Dakota ‘heartbeat’ abortion ban
(Reuters) – A U.S. appeals court on Wednesday permanently blocked a North Dakota law that banned most abortions once a fetal heartbeat can be detected, as early as six weeks after conception.
Florida man who landed gyrocopter at Capitol rejects plea deals
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A Florida man who flew a gyrocopter onto the U.S. Capitol grounds has rejected two plea deals and said on Wednesday his trial would be a forum on the need for campaign finance reform.
Ex-sheriff’s deputy indicted after child severely burned in raid
ATLANTA (Reuters) – A federal grand jury in Georgia on Wednesday indicted a former sheriff’s deputy involved in a drug raid that left a 19-month-old child severely burned from a flash bang grenade explosion.
FBI says still not known if Tennessee shooting suspect was radicalized
(Reuters) – The FBI still has not determined whether the suspect in the fatal shootings of five U.S. servicemen in Tennessee last week was radicalized in the run-up to the rampage, the special agent in charge of the investigation said on Wednesday.
Ferguson taps interim police chief who backs changes
(Reuters) – Ferguson, Missouri, on Wednesday named a black police commander from Arizona as its new interim chief to lead a police department that was accused by the U.S. Justice Department of widespread racial bias in its policing.
South Carolina mother who drowned kids in 1994 case says she’s not a monster
(Reuters) – A South Carolina woman serving life in prison for drowning her two young sons in 1994 had planned to kill herself before the public discovered that she had fabricated her story about a black man kidnapping the boys, according to a letter re…
Utah teen charged with murder after luring girl, 12, from home
(Reuters) – A 15-year-old Utah boy has been charged with aggravated murder after allegedly luring a 12-year-old neighbor from her home with a ruse about a lost cat, and then strangling her and dumping her body in a field, prosecutors have said.
Parishioners in Massachusetts vigil trespassing, church lawyer argues
BOSTON (Reuters) – A lawyer for the Archdiocese of Boston on Wednesday asked a state appeals court to find that parishioners who have staged a decade-long vigil intended to stop the closure of their church were trespassing and could be ordered out.
