Four injured in freight train derailment in North Texas
AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) – Four people were injured when a BNSF freight train derailed in northern Texas on Friday, with high winds and flooding likely causing it to go off the tracks, a company spokesman said.
Day 18 of marathon deliberations in New York missing boy murder trial
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The murder trial of a former deli worker who confessed to strangling 6-year-old Etan Patz resumed on Friday with the 18th day of jury deliberations.
Hillary Clinton woos technorati, draws comparison to Eleanor Roosevelt
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Hillary Clinton makes the final stop on Friday on a California fundraising tour where she has courted technology titans for her 2016 campaign and where one of her admirers tried comparing her to fellow former first lady Eleano…
Poll: Americans favor Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert over conservatives for punditry
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Jon Stewart has spent 16 years skewering U.S. politicians and media as the liberal host of television’s “The Daily Show” – and many Americans think he gets it right on the issues with his satirical look at the news.
Rescuers find California father, children missing after camping trip
(Reuters) – A Northern California man and his two young children have been found safe two days after they failed to return home from a family camping trip in the rugged Sierra Nevada mountains, authorities said on Friday.
Delaware police release video of white officer kicking black suspect
(Reuters) – Police in Delaware have released video from a 2013 incident showing a black suspect being kicked in the face by a white officer who has been charged with assault.
Los Angeles police chief, union at odds over homeless man’s slaying
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – The union representing Los Angeles Police Department officers has lashed out at LAPD Chief Charlie Beck for comments suggesting that the police slaying of an unarmed man during a scuffle in Venice Beach was unjustified.
Man found guilty of murder in 1995 kidnapping and stabbing in California
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – A Southern California man was convicted of murder on Thursday in a 1995 kidnapping and stabbing that gained international attention when his accomplice, who had become a professor in Europe, was arrested three years ago.
U.S. to launch federal probe into Baltimore police practices: Washington Post
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Attorney General Loretta Lynch will launch a federal probe into whether Baltimore’s police department has engaged in a “pattern or practice” of excessive force, the Washington Post reported on Thursday.
U.S. to launch federal probe into Baltimore police practices: Washington Post
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Attorney General Loretta Lynch will launch a federal probe into whether Baltimore’s police department has engaged in a “pattern or practice” of excessive force, the Washington Post reported on Thursday.
