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…
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.
Ohio man held in alleged U.S. Capitol plot hit with new charge
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – An Ohio man already in custody for an alleged plot to attack the U.S. Capitol in January has been charged with the additional crime of attempting to provide material support to the Islamic State militant group, the U.S. Justice D…
Brooklyn cabbie gets life in U.S. prison over Pakistan ‘honor killings’
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A Brooklyn cab driver was sentenced to life in prison on Thursday for arranging the “honor killings” of two family members of a man who helped his daughter flee from Pakistan to the United States to escape an arranged marriage.
De Blasio tells Rolling Stone New Yorkers don’t appreciate him
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Mayor Bill de Blasio said New Yorkers don’t appreciate his “very special” accomplishments since he took office in January 2014, and criticized the actions of his predecessors and even President Barack Obama, according to a Rolling …
