New trial for man who said he killed New York boy to open in 2016
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A new trial for the former New York deli worker who confessed to strangling 6-year-old Etan Patz in a case that changed the way the U.S. responds to missing children will open in 2016, a judge said on Wednesday.
Manhunt for escaped New York inmates expands to Vermont
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The manhunt for two inmates who escaped from a New York maximum security prison expanded to neighboring Vermont on Wednesday as the pair set a record for the longest jailbreak in New York history, authorities said.
Connecticut woman charged with murdering her children in gas-filled home
MILFORD, Conn. (Reuters) – A Connecticut mother with a history of child abuse was arrested on Wednesday and charged with murdering her two youngest children, whose bodies were found in a home filled with natural gas, police said.
Parishioners of Massachusetts church get breathing room in long standoff
BOSTON (Reuters) – A decade-long standoff between parishioners trying to save their Massachusetts church and church leaders who want to close it will last a little longer, following a Wednesday appeals court decision.
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.
