Texas officer in video let ’emotions get the better of him’: lawyer
AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) – The Dallas-area policeman seen in a viral video throwing a bikini-clad black teenager to the ground was emotionally fraught at the time after responding to two suicide calls, and was not targeting minorities, his attorney said…
Exclusive: Confusion clouds count of cars hit by Takata air bag recall
DETROIT(Reuters) – The number of vehicles on U.S. roads with potentially defective Takata air bags appears to be less than half the 34 million initially estimated by federal regulators, according to a Reuters analysis of recall records submitted to the…
Floods sweep northwest Louisiana, damaging hundreds of structures
(Reuters) – A surging Red River that flooded northwest Louisiana this week, damaging hundreds of structures and displacing scores of people, slowly began to recede on Wednesday but was still expected to be above flood stage for several more days.
U.S. officials looking into possible seventh Takata air bag death
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. auto safety regulators said on Wednesday that they are looking into a possible seventh death linked to defective Takata air bag inflators, a Louisiana woman who died after her 2005 Honda Civic hit a utility pole in the early…
Los Angeles City Council approves minimum wage hike
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – The Los Angeles City Council on Wednesday gave final approval to an ordinance raising the minimum wage in America’s second-largest city to $15 an hour by 2020 from the current $9.
U.S. egg prices to hit record high due to bird flu, USDA says
CHICAGO (Reuters) – The average price of a dozen eggs in the United States will climb to a record high this year due to the nation’s worst-ever outbreak of bird flu in poultry, U.S. Department of Agriculture data issued on Wednesday show.
Michigan legislation allows adoption agencies to reject LGBT parents
(Reuters) – Adoption agencies in Michigan would be able to refuse service on religious grounds to homosexual couples who want to adopt children under three bills that the state’s Republican-controlled Senate passed on Wednesday.
Cheap, synthetic ‘flakka’ dethroning cocaine on Florida drug scene
MIAMI (Reuters) – For decades, South Florida has battled drug traffickers who ship boatloads of cocaine from South America. Now the region is dealing with a new epidemic – cheap, synthetic drugs that arrive from China through the mail.
Family of dead NYC teen loses court battle over brain
ALBANY, N.Y. (Reuters) – The family of a New York City teen who died in a car crash had no right to be notified that his brain was removed during an autopsy, New York state’s top court ruled, overturning a $600,000 jury verdict awarded to his parents.
Murder charges dropped for Georgia woman who took abortion pill
ATLANTA (Reuters) – Georgia prosecutors are dropping a murder charge against a woman who was jailed in the death of her 5 1/2-month-old fetus after she took an abortion-inducing pill, officials said on Wednesday.
