Four bodies in Connecticut believed linked to serial killer -police
MILFORD, Conn. (Reuters) – Police in Connecticut said on Monday they had identified a suspect in the deaths of seven people after partial remains of four bodies were found behind a shopping mall where the bodies of three women were discovered eight yea…
Texas mother charged in deaths of her twins released on bail
HOUSTON (Reuters) – A Houston-area mother charged with two counts of manslaughter in the drowning deaths of her twin 15-month-old daughters was released on a $100,000 bond on Monday, police said.
Boston bomber told nun ‘no one’ should suffer as his victims did
BOSTON (Reuters) – Lawyers for the Boston Marathon bomber on Monday wrapped up the case to spare Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s life with testimony from a Roman Catholic nun and death-penalty opponent who said Tsarnaev told her “no one deserves to suffer” as his …
Chicago officer faces civil trial over shooting of black teen
CHICAGO (Reuters) – A civil trial opened on Monday in a lawsuit against the city of Chicago and a police officer for the alleged use of unjustified force in the 2011 fatal shooting of an 18-year-old black man.
USDA finds H5N8 bird flu strain in Indiana
(Reuters) – A strain of highly pathogenic H5 avian flu that had recently been found only in the Western United States has been confirmed in a backyard poultry flock in Indiana, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said on Monday.
Texas, Arkansas tornadoes kill at least 4, shatter homes
VAN, Texas/LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (Reuters) – Emergency crews were cleaning up on Monday from tornadoes that killed at least four people and injured 50 others in Texas and Arkansas that were part of a twister series to hit central states overnight, flatteni…
U.S. airline consumer complaints soared in March: report
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Complaints among U.S. air travelers soared more than 55 percent in March from a year earlier, mainly due to flight problems, a federal government report said on Monday.
Ex-NFL star Hernandez charged in 2013 shooting of witness
BOSTON (Reuters) – Former New England Patriots player Aaron Hernandez, who was convicted last month of murdering an acquaintance in 2013, was charged on Monday with the non-fatal shooting of a man believed to be a witness to another murder of which Her…
Colorado movie gunman’s lawyers object to ‘upsetting’ testimony
CENTENNIAL, Colo. (Reuters) – Lawyers trying to avoid the death penalty for Colorado movie massacre gunman James Holmes objected on Monday when prosecutors tried to bring testimony the defense called “upsetting” from investigators at the bloody crime s…
Ex-CIA officer in NY Times leak case gets 42 months in prison
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A former CIA officer was sentenced on Monday to 42 months in prison for leaking classified information to a New York Times reporter about a failed U.S. effort to undermine Iran’s nuclear weapons program, the Justice Department sa…
