Prison sentences for eight former Atlanta educators in test-cheating scandal
ATLANTA (Reuters) – Eight former Atlanta public school educators were ordered on Tuesday to serve between one and seven years in prison for their convictions on racketeering charges in one of the nation’s largest test-cheating scandals.
Battery charge against U.S. judge dropped, angering congresswoman
(Reuters) – A misdemeanor charge against a federal judge accused of beating his wife in an Atlanta hotel room in August 2014 has been dropped, a court official said on Tuesday, prompting an angry reaction from a U.S. congresswoman who has called for hi…
NY prosecutor recounts impact of Etan Patz 1979 disappearance
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Prosecutors in the trial of a former deli worker accused of murdering a New York boy said on Tuesday that the child’s 1979 disappearance, which launched a movement to find missing children, marked “a loss of innocence” for the city…
Shooting at N.C. community college investigated as possible hate crime
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (Reuters) – A 20-year-old man accused of killing his former supervisor at a North Carolina community college carried out a “calculated plan,” according to police, who on Tuesday said they are investigating the shooting as a possible…
Chicago to make reparations to police torture victims
CHICAGO (Reuters) – Chicago will pay $5.5 million and make other reparations to dozens of victims of police torture in the 1970s and 1980s under a city law that human rights lawyers said was the first of its kind, Mayor Rahm Emanuel announced on Tuesda…
U.S. drug agents’ alleged sex parties go back to 2001: lawmakers
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agents in Colombia were taking part in alleged sex parties with prostitutes funded by drug cartels years earlier than previously known, U.S. lawmakers said on Tuesday.
Florida legislature passes bill to scrap gay adoptions ban
TALLAHASSEE (Reuters) – The Florida Senate sent Governor Rick Scott a bill Tuesday repealing the state’s 1977 ban on adoptions by gay parents that was struck down by an appeals court in 2010.
Educator sentenced in Atlanta test cheating case spared lengthy jail time
(Reuters) – The first former Atlanta public school educator sentenced on Tuesday in one of the nation’s largest test-cheating scandals was ordered by a judge to serve six months of weekends in jail and five years of probation.
‘Slicing and dicing’: How some U.S. firms could win big in 2016 elections
NEW YORK (Reuters) – By one estimate U.S. online political advertising could quadruple to nearly $1 billion in the 2016 election, creating huge opportunities for digital strategy firms eager to capitalize on a shift from traditional mediums like televi…
Detroit, Stockton bankruptcies may flag wider problems: Fed’s Dudley
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The municipal bankruptcies in Detroit and Stockton, California, may foretell more widespread problems in the United States than is implied by current bond ratings, a top Federal Reserve official said on Tuesday.
