Video of police beating California assault suspect prompts probe
(Reuters) – Authorities in a Central California city are investigating whether police used excessive force when they struck an assault suspect with batons while subduing him in an incident captured on cell phone video and posted on the Internet, offici…
Arkansas judge tells state to recognize hundreds of same-sex marriages
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (Reuters) – A judge ordered Arkansas on Tuesday to recognize hundreds of same-sex marriages that were performed during a six-day window in the state in May 2014 and have since been in legal limbo.
Most signatures on petition to recall Ferguson mayor invalid: official
(Reuters) – A group that wants to recall the mayor of a Missouri town where an unarmed black teen was killed by a policeman last summer needs to try again, after more than half the signatures on the recall petition were declared invalid, an official sa…
U.S. wildlife managers eye more hunting, fishing at national wildlife refuges
(Reuters) – U.S. wildlife managers proposed on Tuesday allowing the first migratory bird hunt at a wildlife refuge in Oregon and opening or expanding sport fishing and hunting at other protected sites in states including California and North Dakota.
Protesters seek firing of Texas officer who threw girl to ground
McKINNEY, Texas (Reuters) – Hundreds marched through the Dallas-area city of McKinney on Monday calling for the firing of a police officer seen in a video throwing a bikini-clad teenage girl to the ground and pointing his pistol at other youths at a po…
Transgender physician breaks barrier in Pennsylvania capital
HARRISBURG, Pa. (Reuters) – Dr. Rachel Levine, a transgender woman confirmed on Tuesday as Pennsylvania’s physician-general, says she wants to be defined by her public health priorities, not her breakthrough appointment as an influential gubernatorial …
Former Connecticut anti-fraud watchdog pleads guilty to fraud charge
BRIDGEPORT, Conn. (Reuters) – The former head investigator of welfare fraud for Connecticut has pleaded guilty to a federal charge of lying about his income and assets so he could secure a mortgage under a program aimed at helping lower-income American…
Uncle Sam wants you: rare World War One posters up for auction
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A collection of about 2,000 posters from the World War One era, considered to be one of the world’s finest and amassed over more than a decade by a U.S. Army officer, will be sold at auction later this month, Guernsey’s auction hou…
Charges dropped for cheering out of turn at Mississippi graduation
JACKSON, Miss. (Reuters) – Charges have been dropped against three people who cheered out of turn at a recent high school graduation in Mississippi, a court official said on Tuesday.
Elderly couple dies in murder-suicide at Texas hospital
SAN ANTONIO (Reuters) – A husband and wife, both in their 80s, died on Tuesday in a murder-suicide that took place in a central Texas hospital room where the woman was being treated for a serious illness, officials said.
