Congress mulls measures to curb soaring drone incidents
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. lawmakers are considering steps to reverse a disturbing rise in illegal drone flights, including new government enforcement tools to crack down on rogue flyers, especially near airports, according to people familiar with the…
Exclusive: Scandal-tainted U.S. Secret Service to hire 1,100 staff – sources
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Facing accusations that it cannot adequately protect the White House, the U.S. Secret Service plans to hire 1,100 more officers and agents for an agency besieged by embarrassing scandals and security lapses, two law enforcement s…
Bomb threat prompts evacuation of Stanford business school
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – A bomb threat prompted the evacuation of Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business on Friday morning, the San Francisco Bay Area school said.
Man kills ex-girlfriend, self in loans store in downtown Chicago
CHICAGO (Reuters) – A man shot and killed his former girlfriend and then himself on Friday in the downtown Chicago loans store where she worked, police said.
Family of mentally ill teen killed by California police files suit
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – The family of a mentally ill teenage girl who was holding a cordless power drill when she was shot dead by a California police officer exactly one year ago filed a civil rights lawsuit against the officer on Friday.
Murder conviction overturned, Rhode Island man could walk free
PROVIDENCE (Reuters) – A Rhode Island man who has spent 23 years behind bars after being convicted of murder in the 1982 bludgeoning of a 22-year-old woman could walk free on Tuesday after a state court in July overturned his conviction, a judge ruled …
North Carolina police officer: fatal shooting was unavoidable
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (Reuters) – A white North Carolina police officer who shot and killed an unarmed black man in 2013 told jurors on Friday that he had no other choice as he explained his actions during a second day of testimony in his manslaughter trial….
Hillary Clinton offers plan to help students with children
CLEAR LAKE, Iowa (Reuters) – Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton said on Friday that if elected she would dramatically expand a program that provides child care for college students with children, and to create a scholarship program for s…
Man sentenced to life without parole in deadly Indiana home blast
(Reuters) – An Indiana judge sentenced a man to life in prison without parole on Friday for murder and arson for causing a explosion in 2012 that killed two neighbors when he tried to burn down an Indianapolis house for insurance money, prosecutors sai…
Uzbek man pleads guilty in New York to supporting Islamic State
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A 25-year-old Uzbek man who lives in Brooklyn pleaded guilty on Friday in federal court to conspiring to provide material support to Islamic State militants, the U.S. Justice Department said.
