Texas policeman resigns after video shows him toppling teen
AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) – A Dallas-area policeman seen in a viral video tossing a bathing suit-clad teenage girl to the ground has resigned from the McKinney Police force, the city’s police chief said on Tuesday, calling the officer’s actions indefensi…
L.A. police commission says officer violated policy in shooting
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Los Angeles police commissioners on Tuesday issued a mixed ruling in the shooting of unarmed black man by two patrolmen, largely approving of one officer’s actions while finding that the other had violated department policy.
U.S. Marine goes on trial again for killing of Iraqi civilian
CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. (Reuters) – Military prosecutors argued at the start of a California retrial on Tuesday of a U.S. Marine whose platoon killed an Iraqi civilian in 2006 that the killing was motivated by a desire to send a message to a resistant I…
Convicted killer in New York prison break on third escape attempt
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A daring weekend escape from a New York state maximum-security penitentiary, the facility’s first prison break, marked at least the third time convicted murderer Richard Matt had moved to bust out from behind bars.
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 …
