Hawaii becomes first U.S. state to raise smoking age to 21
(Reuters) – Hawaii’s governor on Friday signed a bill raising the legal smoking age statewide to 21, the first U.S. state to do so.
NRA executive suggests slain Charleston pastor to blame for gun deaths
DALLAS (Reuters) – A National Rifle Association executive in Texas has come under fire for suggesting that a South Carolina lawmaker and pastor slain with eight members of his congregation bears some of the blame for his opposition to permitting concea…
Two Alabama policemen ousted over neo-Confederate ties
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (Reuters) – A police officer in Anniston, Alabama, has been fired and a second retired after they were linked to a neo-Confederate group that calls for the South to secede from the United States, city officials said on Friday.
Judge declares mistrial in South Carolina police chief’s murder retrial
CHARLESTON, S.C. (Reuters) – A judge declared a mistrial on Friday night in the re-trial of a former South Carolina police chief accused of murder after a jury failed to reach a verdict despite seven hours of deliberation, a defense attorney told Reute…
Man convicted in killing of dismembered New Orleans dancer
GRETNA, La. (Reuters) – A jury convicted a man of second-degree murder on Friday in the 2012 death and dismemberment of a New Orleans nightclub dancer whose body parts were discovered on Gulf Coast beaches.
U.S. man arrested for attempting to provide support to Islamic State
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A U.S. man was arrested on Friday in Ohio for attempting to provide material support to the Islamic State militant group, the U.S. Justice Department said.
U.S. doctor sanctioned for ‘abhorrent and abnormal’ troop training
RICHMOND, Va. (Reuters) – A state board revoked the license of a former U.S. Army doctor on Friday, finding that he plied students with hypnotic drugs during battlefield-trauma training and performed dangerous procedures, including intentionally induci…
Judge denies bond for Washington man accused of threats on transit
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A man who last year appeared on an MTV reality show and is accused of threatening Washington’s mass transit system and President Barack Obama in calls to emergency responders was denied release on bond on Friday by a federal judg…
Mormon church to make available records of 4 million freed slaves
(Reuters) – The Mormon Church will lead efforts to index records of about 4 million former slaves and their families in the hope of connecting African Americans with their Civil War-era ancestors, the Utah-based faith said on Friday.
Church shootings put spotlight on South Carolina prosecutor again
NEW YORK (Reuters) – For the second time in two weeks, South Carolina prosecutor Scarlett Wilson finds herself at the center of a racially charged murder case generating national headlines, after the shooting of nine black men and women at a historic c…
