Texas girl arrested for fight with classmate in viral video
DALLAS (Reuters) – A 13-year-old Texas girl was arrested on Monday after a video that went viral showed her beating a classmate who was holding a toddler at a Dallas-area elementary school earlier this month, police said.
Illinois attorney general says no state paychecks without budget
CHICAGO (Reuters) – Illinois state workers cannot be paid without an enacted budget for the fiscal year that begins Wednesday, State Attorney General Lisa Madigan said on Monday as a major labor union warned it could sue over any missed paychecks.
Massachusetts officials detail multimillion-dollar heroin bust
(Reuters) – Police have arrested a man suspected of being at the heart of the heroin trade in the Boston area and seized more than 30 pounds (14 kg) of the drug with a street value exceeding $2 million, authorities said on Monday.
California bill to limit vaccine exemptions goes to governor
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (Reuters) – California lawmakers on Monday sent Governor Jerry Brown a bill to substantially limit vaccine exemptions for school children in the most populous U.S. state, following last year’s measles outbreak at Disneyland that sick…
Co-worker recalls Colorado movie massacre gunman acting ‘spaced out’
CENTENNIAL, Colo. (Reuters) – Lawyers for Colorado movie massacre gunman James Holmes sought on Monday to build their case he was legally insane, calling a former co-worker who remembered him as quiet, antisocial and acting oddly.
Supreme Court temporarily blocks Texas abortion restrictions
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday agreed to block temporarily parts of a strict new Texas abortion law that critics say is aimed at shutting down clinics that offer the procedure.
Ohio judge sentences man to death in sledgehammer slayings
CLEVELAND (Reuters) – An Ohio judge on Monday sentenced a 20-year-old man to death for the April 2013 sledgehammer murder of his girlfriend’s mother and also gave him a life sentence for killing her father, the Summit County prosecutor’s office said.
Sixteen states sue EPA over clean water rule
(Reuters) – Sixteen states on Monday filed lawsuits against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, contesting a rule that expands the definition of bodies of water subject to federal pollution controls.
Baltimore prosecutors release witness list in Gray case
BALTIMORE (Reuters) – Baltimore prosecutors have listed more than 30 potential witnesses, including an expert on forensic pathology and a DNA expert, in the trial of police officers charged in the death of Freddie Gray in April.
Obama signs trade bills into law, says tough battle still ahead
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama on Monday signed into law legislation that gives him “fast-track” power to push ahead on a Pacific Rim trade deal that has been the subject of intense debate in Congress and across the nation.
