Death of former NFL player’s cellmate ruled homicide: newspaper
(Reuters) – A California coroner has ruled that the death of a former NFL player’s prison cellmate was a homicide by strangulation, the Los Angeles Times reported on Thursday.
California Governor Brown hears business concerns about drought plan
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (Reuters) – California Governor Jerry Brown on Thursday promised to consider the concerns of businesses affected by his order to cut urban water use by 25 percent as the prolonged drought in the most populous U.S. state drags into it…
Alaska Airlines bans baggage worker who got trapped in cargo hold
SEATTLE (Reuters) – A contract baggage handler who became trapped in the belly of an Alaska Airlines jet on takeoff from Seattle after falling asleep in the plane’s cargo hold has been banned from all future work at the airline, a company spokeswoman s…
Another death row inmate walks free in Alabama
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (Reuters) – An Alabama death row inmate who won a new trial and then reached a plea deal with prosecutors walked out of jail a free man on Thursday, the second condemned man to do so this month.
Fort Hood attack Purple Heart recipients to get added benefits
(Reuters) – The U.S. Army said on Thursday it will provide additional benefits to the dozens of soldiers awarded Purple Heart medals stemming from a 2009 shooting rampage by an Army psychiatrist at the Fort Hood Army base in central Texas.
Oklahoma reserve deputy records falsified: newspaper
OKLAHOMA CITY (Reuters) – Tulsa County Sheriff’s Office supervisors were ordered to falsify training records for a white reserve deputy charged with manslaughter in the fatal shooting of a black suspect, an Oklahoma newspaper reported on Thursday.
Arkansas ex-judge in Charlize Theron adoption leak loses law license
(Reuters) – A former Arkansas judge who was forced from the bench for disclosing confidential information about an adoption by actress Charlize Theron was allowed on Thursday to voluntarily surrender his law license by the Arkansas Supreme Court.
Arizona man gets 14 years in prison for abusing adopted daughters
PHOENIX (Reuters) – An Arizona man was sentenced on Thursday to 14 years in prison after pleading guilty to child abuse for beating and starving his adopted teen daughters, a court official said.
Cloudy execution drug was too cold, not tainted, Georgia officials say
ATLANTA (Reuters) – A lethal drug that Georgia planned to use on a condemned female inmate was not tainted by another substance as feared when her execution was halted over its cloudy appearance but had been stored at too low a temperature, officials s…
Washington state auditor indicted on tax-related charges
SEATTLE (Reuters) – Washington state auditor Troy Kelley, a Democrat elected in 2012, pleaded not guilty on Thursday to charges of possession of stolen property, filing false tax returns and lying to federal agents.
