Female prison worker, New York escapees plotted husband’s murder: prosecutor
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The female prison worker in custody for helping two New York inmates escape had discussed with the convicts a murder-for-hire plot targeting her husband, Clinton County District Attorney Andrew Wylie said on Wednesday.
Washington subway has serious safety shortfalls, regulators say
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Washington’s troubled subway system suffers from serious safety lapses and needs to improve immediately, the Federal Transit Administration said on Wednesday, six months after a tunnel fire in the U.S. capital killed one person.
U.S. postal workers turn Scrooge, poor kids lose: authorities
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Federal authorities have accused three U.S. postal workers of being Scrooges, by writing fake letters to Santa Claus to get Christmas gifts meant for poor children.
NY auto dealers to pay $14 million for selling illegal services
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Three New York auto dealers have agreed to pay nearly $14 million to customers who were unlawfully sold credit repair, identity theft protection and other services along with their vehicles, state officials said on Wednesday.
Massachusetts murderer’s lawyers seek move for death-penalty retrial
BOSTON (Reuters) – A federal judge in Boston on Wednesday indicated that the upcoming death-penalty trial for an admitted triple murderer will likely remain in Massachusetts, despite defense lawyers’ arguments it will be impossible to seat an impartial…
Mother whose son dropped into Ohio zoo cheetah pen gets probation
(Reuters) – An Ohio judge on Wednesday sentenced a woman who dropped her 2-year-old son into a cheetah exhibit at the Cleveland zoo in April to one year of probation.
Baltimore light rail project gets new impetus after Freddie Gray death, riots
BALTIMORE (Reuters) – Maryland officials are eyeing a $2.9 billion light rail project long in the works for Baltimore as a way of combating the crushing poverty that fueled rioting in the city after the police-custody death of Freddie Gray.
Economists predict shockwaves if Obamacare subsidies are nixed
NEW YORK (Reuters) – As the U.S. Supreme Court prepares to rule on whether people in 34 states can continue to receive Obamacare health insurance subsidies, economists are projecting billions of dollars in lost healthcare spending for hospitals, drugst…
Shark attack victim felt jaws ‘biting up my left arm’
(Reuters) – A 16-year-old who lost his arm this week in one of two back-to-back shark attacks in North Carolina said the encounter came without warning and he first saw the predator when its teeth were cutting into his skin.
Man shot trying to enter air base in Arkansas dies at hospital
(Reuters) – The armed man who was shot trying to gain entry this week into the Little Rock Air Force base has died at an Arkansas hospital, law enforcement officials said on Wednesday.
