Activists demand Los Angeles officer be charged over shooting
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Civil rights activists called on Wednesday for criminal charges against one of two Los Angeles police officers in the shooting death of an unarmed black man, after the city’s police commission found the officer had violated depa…
U.S. charges New York jail guards over 2012 inmate death
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Two jail guards who have worked at New York City’s Rikers Island complex were arrested on Wednesday on federal charges stemming from an assault that led to the death of an inmate there in December 2012.
Suspect charged with murder over illegal buttocks augmentation
DALLAS (Reuters) – One suspect was charged with murder on Wednesday and another was sought on a similar charge on suspicion of providing illegal butt augmentation injections in a Dallas salon, which likely resulted in one woman’s death.
Florida governor signs bill requiring two clinic visits, waiting period for abortion
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (Reuters) – Women seeking abortions in Florida will be required to make two visits to a clinic, with a mandatory 24-hour waiting period in between, to end a pregnancy under a bill signed into law on Wednesday.
Warner Music to pay $4.2 million to end intern wage lawsuit
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Warner Music Group Corp has agreed to pay hundreds of former interns more than $4.2 million to resolve a class-action lawsuit accusing the company of underpaying them.
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…
