Wildfire burns near Los Angeles, threatening upscale homes
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – A wildfire erupted on Monday near an upscale neighborhood of Los Angeles as some 200 firefighters, backed by water-dropping helicopters, fought the flames.
Boston bomber’s lawyer urges ‘unrelenting punishment’ over death
BOSTON (Reuters) – Convicted Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was adrift and following his obsessive older brother when he carried out the deadly 2013 attack, a defense lawyer said on Monday as he urged a jury to spare his client’s life.
Storm knocks out power to New Orleans airport
NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) – A line of storms moving through Louisiana on Monday knocked out power to the New Orleans International Airport, sent train cars tumbling from an elevated bridge and left some 168,000 customers without power.
Stage set for landmark U.S. Supreme Court gay marriage arguments
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A day before the U.S. Supreme Court hears landmark arguments on whether the Constitution provides a right to same-sex marriage, activists on both sides of the contentious social issue converged on the white marble courthouse to v…
Orr to leave Atlantic City emergency management team
(Reuters) – Lawyer Kevyn Orr will leave Atlantic City’s emergency management team, finalizing his work on the struggling New Jersey gambling hub by the end of the month, Governor Chris Christie’s office said on Monday.
Two Cleveland kidnap survivors say hope helped them survive ordeal
CLEVELAND (Reuters) – Nearly two years after they escaped the Cleveland house where they were held for years, Amanda Berry and Gina DeJesus said in a memoir published Monday that they were stronger than the former school bus driver who abducted them.
Shooting in Sacramento area prompts lockdown of nearby schools
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (Reuters) – A woman was shot and wounded along a major thoroughfare of a Sacramento suburb on Monday, prompting a security alert and lockdown of nearby schools while police searched for the suspect, a Sacramento County sheriff’s spok…
Oklahoma sheriff’s official resigns after fatal shooting
OKLAHOMA CITY (Reuters) – The No. 2 official at the Tulsa County Sheriff’s Office has resigned weeks after the fatal shooting of a suspect by a reserve deputy who said he mistakenly fired his handgun instead of his Taser, the sheriff said on Monday.
Lynch inherits civil rights probes from Holder as attorney general
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A string of deadly confrontations between mostly white police and black men will be among the challenges immediately facing new Attorney General Loretta Lynch, who was sworn in on Monday.
Former S.C. sheriff sentenced to year in prison in public corruption case
(Reuters) – A former South Carolina sheriff who pleaded guilty in a public corruption case involving illegal immigrants was sentenced on Monday to a year and a day in federal prison and fined $10,000, a U.S. Attorney’s office said.
