Defense worker charge cards used for $1 million in casinos bills: audit
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Defense Department employees used their government credit cards to pay for more than $1 million worth of casino and adult entertainment purchases over the course of a year, an audit of transactions by the Pentagon inspector gener…
Colorado movie massacre jurors handle guns, gear used by Holmes
CENTENNIAL, Colo. (Reuters) – Jurors in Colorado’s movie massacre trial handled firearms, a helmet and piles of protective anti-ballistic clothing on Thursday that gunman James Holmes used when he killed 12 people at a midnight premiere of a Batman fil…
Cavs apologize for ‘insensitive’ domestic violence video
(Reuters) – The National Basketball Association’s Cleveland Cavaliers apologized on Thursday for airing a video during a playoff game that depicted an incident of domestic violence.
NYC mayor boosts reserves in budget plan; suggests luxury condo tax
NEW YORK (Reuters) – New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio on Thursday laid out a $78.3 billion executive budget for the next fiscal year, a $600 million increase over his blueprint in early February.
Wake for slain NYC police officer draws thousands of mourners
BETHPAGE, N.Y. (Reuters) – Thousands of law enforcement officers gathered at a Long Island funeral home on Thursday to pay their respects to a New York policeman who died of a fatal gunshot wound this week, the city’s fifth officer to die in the line o…
Jury to return for 18th day of deliberations in NYC missing boy murder case
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Jurors finished a 17th day of marathon deliberations on Thursday without reaching a verdict in the murder trial of a man who confessed to strangling Etan Patz more than three decades ago.
Pittsburgh police, accused of racial bias, will revamp hiring
PITTSBURGH (Reuters) – The Pittsburgh Police Department has agreed to revamp its hiring practices in order to settle a federal lawsuit that claimed discrimination against African-American job applicants, Mayor Bill Peduto said on Thursday.
Cleveland kidnapping survivor Knight talks hope and courage
(Reuters) – Michelle Knight, one of three women held captive for a decade by a former Cleveland school bus driver, is considering studying to become a therapist, she said in an interview with a Fox Cleveland television station.
NSA’s phone spying program ruled illegal by appeals court
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A U.S. spying program that systematically collects millions of Americans’ phone records is illegal, a federal appeals court ruled on Thursday, putting pressure on Congress to quickly decide whether to replace or end the controversi…
White House fence getting sharper spikes in security upgrade
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The black iron fence surrounding the White House will be topped with a row of “sharp metal points” in July, the U.S. Secret Service said on Thursday, part of a series of security upgrades for the famous mansion where the presiden…
