White officer won’t face death penalty in South Carolina murder: prosecutor
CHARLESTON, S.C. (Reuters) – A white South Carolina patrolman charged with murder for shooting a black man in the back as he fled after a traffic stop will not face the death penalty if convicted, a prosecutor said on Monday.
Texas judge pleads guilty to fixing cases for car repairs
SAN ANTONIO (Reuters) – A veteran Texas criminal court judge pleaded guilty on Monday to fixing cases in exchange for car repairs and faces two years in a federal prison.
Jury selection starts for Oklahoma teen charged with murdering Australian
OKLAHOMA CITY (Reuters) – Jury selection started on Monday in the trial of an Oklahoma teenager who has been charged with murdering an Australian student on a local university’s baseball team as he was jogging in the southern part of the state in 2013….
Three abalone divers drown off Northern California coast
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Three men drowned as they dived for abalone off the rocky coast of Northern California’s Mendocino County after becoming trapped by pounding surf in a narrow channel, authorities said on Monday.
New York questions big retailers over ‘on-call’ staffing
(Reuters) – New York’s attorney general has sent letters to 13 national retailers, including Gap Inc, Target Corp and JC Penney Co Inc, about “on-call shifts” in which workers are told whether to report to work a day or less before a scheduled shift.
Tennessee high court suspends four executions
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (Reuters) – The Tennessee Supreme Court has suspended executions for four men on death row while courts decide the constitutionality of the state’s use of lethal injection and the electric chair.
Possible Lincoln deathbed blanket tested in Wisconsin 150 years after assassination
MILWAUKEE (Reuters) – A bedspread that may have covered Abraham Lincoln as he lay dying will be tested for his blood in Wisconsin on Tuesday, 150 years to the day after the 16th U.S. president was fatally shot while watching a play in Washington.
Oklahoma deputy charged with manslaughter in fatal Tulsa shooting
OKLAHOMA CITY (Reuters) – Oklahoma prosecutors charged a sheriff’s reserve deputy with second-degree manslaughter on Monday in the fatal shooting of a black man this month in Tulsa, the most recent in a series of U.S. cases that have raised questions a…
Driving instructor killed in Disney World race car crash
ORLANDO, Fla. (Reuters) – A passenger killed in a crash at a Walt Disney World Speedway race-car attraction has been identified as an instructor who was riding in a Lamborghini that hit a guardrail after the driver lost control, according to the Florid…
Defense says confession to 1979 murder of New York boy ‘improbable’
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The attorney for a former deli worker accused of murdering a New York boy in 1979 argued on Monday that his confession was unreliable and improbable and that prosecutors failed to present evidence of his guilt.
