Tennessee bus driver was texting before deadly crash: police
(Reuters) – The driver of a Tennessee school bus that crashed in December, killing two students and a teacher’s aide, had been receiving and sending texts before the crash, police said on Friday.
Huntington Ingalls wins $4.3 billion in U.S. Navy carrier deals
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Huntington Ingalls Industries Inc on Friday won two contracts worth a combined $4.3 billion to complete design work and construction of the USS John F. Kennedy aircraft carrier, the Pentagon said in its daily digest of major weap…
U.S. auto safety agency sets reforms after GM recall
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. safety regulators acknowledged shortfalls in their probe of a General Motors Co ignition switch defect linked to over 100 deaths, and unveiled plans on Friday for more aggressive enforcement of auto defects.
Boston bomber’s friends sentenced for hampering investigation
BOSTON (Reuters) – Two college friends of the Boston Marathon bomber were sentenced to prison on Friday for removing a backpack containing empty fireworks shells from Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s dorm room amid a massive manhunt three days after the deadly 2013…
Sinkhole swallows police vehicle in Colorado
(Reuters) – A sinkhole on a street just south of Denver swallowed a police SUV on Friday, sending it 10 feet down into the hole and forcing the sergeant inside to climb onto the roof to clamber out of the pit, the local police chief said.
Texas man sentenced to prison for trying to join Islamic State
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – An Austin, Texas man was sentenced on Friday to almost seven years in prison for attempting to travel to Syria to join the Islamic State militant group.
Three more arrested in Connecticut steroids trafficking case
MILFORD, Conn. (Reuters) – Three more Connecticut men have been arrested on charges related to a global steroids trafficking ring run by a Newtown police sergeant even as he acted as a department spokesman in the aftermath of the town’s 2012 Sandy Hook…
Former Los Angeles policeman caught in Mexico charged with murder
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – A former Los Angeles police officer who was arrested in Mexico after fleeing there following the shooting death of a Southern California man has been formally charged with murder in the high profile case, prosecutors said on Fri…
Ex-security guard pleads guilty to aiding Kentucky bourbon theft
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (Reuters) – A former security guard at a Kentucky distillery pleaded guilty on Friday to a misdemeanor charge under a deal with prosecutors and has agreed to testify against others accused in the theft of rare bourbons and other expensi…
Man accused of plotting to bomb Kansas airport to change plea
(Reuters) – A man accused of plotting a suicide bomb attack at an airport in Wichita, Kansas, in 2013, notified the U.S. District Court that he plans to change his not guilty plea at a hearing next week, according to online court records.
