Atlanta billboards urging ‘Don’t Run’ from police criticized
ATLANTA (Reuters) – New billboards advising Atlanta residents to “Stay Calm, Don’t Run” during encounters with law enforcement drew rebuke this week from City Council members and police who say the campaign sends the wrong message.
Westchester, NY hospital pays $18.8 million to settle U.S. kickback case
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Westchester Medical Center agreed to pay $18.8 million and admit to misconduct to settle a U.S. lawsuit accusing the suburban New York hospital operator of violating a federal anti-kickback law and defrauding Medicare, federal pros…
No sentence after first full day of Boston bombing jury deliberations
BOSTON (Reuters) – The first full day of jury deliberations in the Boston Marathon bombing trial ended on Thursday without a decision on whether Dzhokhar Tsarnaev would be sentenced to death or to life in prison for the deadly 2013 attack.
U.S. lawmakers blast Secret Service’s ‘culture of fear’
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Secret Service has pervasive problems and a deep-seated culture of fear and retaliation, U.S. lawmakers said on Thursday at a hearing to investigate how two senior agents drove a government car into White House barricade…
Minnesota jury convicts Final Exit group of assisting 2007 suicide
MINNEAPOLIS (Reuters) – A jury on Thursday found the national right-to-die group Final Exit Network guilty of assisting a Minnesota woman’s suicide in 2007 and interfering with a death scene, prosecutors said.
New York City nail salon workers file lawsuit over wages
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Two New York City manicurists on Thursday filed a proposed class action lawsuit claiming four nail salons routinely violated minimum wage and overtime laws, days after a New York Times investigation revealed rampant wage theft and …
Former top sheriff’s officials indicted in Los Angeles jail scandal
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – A federal grand jury indicted a former Los Angeles County undersheriff and a retired captain on obstruction and conspiracy charges in a long-running investigation of inmate abuse and corruption, prosecutors said on Thursday.
Oregon woman dies in car crash day after accepting marriage proposal
PORTLAND, Ore. (Reuters) – An Oregon woman was killed in a car crash and her fiance was in the hospital fighting for his life a day after the couple got engaged on a California beach, authorities said on Thursday.
Chinese-Americans in New York split over officer who shot black man
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Dozens of Chinese-Americans gathered at a court hearing on Thursday to support a New York City police officer charged in the fatal shooting of an unarmed black man, while others joined protesters outside who were demanding he be co…
Georgia school principal dismissed after racial remark
ATLANTA (Reuters) – The principal of a private school in suburban Atlanta has been fired after making remarks she admitted were racially insensitive during a graduation ceremony last week, a civil rights group said on Thursday.
