Ohio mother confesses to killing three young sons over past year: police
(Reuters) – An Ohio woman has confessed to killing her three young sons – two infants and a 4-year-old – over the past year, police said on Tuesday.
Man arrested over bounty hunter raid on Arizona police chief’s home
PHOENIX (Reuters) – A bounty hunter believed responsible for deliberately giving a rival false information that led to a mistaken raid on the Phoenix police chief’s home was arrested on Tuesday, police said.
Three missing, home destroyed by Alaska landslide
(Reuters) – Three people, including a fire marshal, were missing and a home was destroyed when a landslide hit a small Alaska town on Tuesday, officials said.
Second Yosemite National Park visitor diagnosed with plague
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – A second person to visit California’s Yosemite National Park has been diagnosed with the plague, the latest of several such infections in the Western United States this year, health officials said on Tuesday.
U.S. doctor’s Washington state license suspended over troop training
(Reuters) – A Washington state board has suspended the medical license of a former U.S. Army doctor who earned millions in government training contracts but who witnesses said practiced bizarre medical procedures.
Two men fall during attempted suicide at University of Hawaii, one dies
(Reuters) – A 24-year-old man died trying to save another man who attempted to kill himself by jumping from a 14th-floor dormitory window at the University of Hawaii, Honolulu police and university officials said on Tuesday.
Man arrested in cold-case killing of Arizona woman from 1982
PHOENIX (Reuters) – A man has been arrested in the 1982 strangling of an Arizona mother of three young children, based partly on DNA evidence recovered from under the victim’s fingernails, police said on Tuesday.
Georgia ex-police officers indicted over man’s 2014 Taser death
ATLANTA (Reuters) – A grand jury has indicted two former Georgia police officers on murder charges for allegedly killing a handcuffed suspect with a stun gun last year, a prosecutor said on Tuesday.
Family sues over death of hostage in California police shootout
(Reuters) – The family of a California woman taken hostage by bank robbers and killed in a shootout with police filed a lawsuit on Tuesday accusing officers of causing her 2014 death by indiscriminately firing hundreds of bullets at the suspects’ vehic…
U.S. military probe of Afghan shooting found Bales’ camp had lax discipline
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The month before he killed 16 Afghan civilians in a shooting rampage, Army Staff Sergeant Robert Bales bloodied the nose of an Afghan truck driver in an assault that was not reported to his camp commanders, according to a report …
