New York escapees on run as prison officer is suspended
DANNEMORA, N.Y. (Reuters) – A New York state corrections officer was suspended on Friday in connection with the prison escape of two convicted murderers who have evaded capture for nearly two weeks, officials said.
Japanese-American couple interned by U.S. in WW2 get high school diplomas
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – A Japanese-American couple who were plucked from their California high school during World War Two and forcibly detained at a U.S. government internment camp were given honorary diplomas this week at the school’s graduation cere…
Oregon man sentenced for helping people linked to Pakistan suicide bombing
PORTLAND, Ore. (Reuters) – A former Portland city worker was sentenced on Friday to 87 months in federal prison for providing support to people linked to a suicide bomb attack on the headquarters of Pakistan’s intelligence service in 2009 that killed a…
Charleston church shooter planned first to attack college: media
(Reuters) – Friends of the white gunman who shot and killed nine black people inside an historic African-American church in Charleston, South Carolina said he first talked about attacking a college campus, the Washington Post and NBC News reported on F…
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.
