Texas boy, 12, in custody for fatal shooting of 13-year-old friend
AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) – A 12-year-old boy has been taken into police custody for the homicide of a 13-year-old who was shot when the two were playing with a gun in a suburban Dallas home last month, police said on Monday.
Arizona judge drops charges against ex-death row inmate Milke
PHOENIX (Reuters) – A judge in Arizona formally exonerated a woman on Monday who spent more than two decades on death row for the 1989 murder of her 4-year-old son before a federal appeals court tossed out the conviction.
Mexican laborer slain by police in U.S. faced swiftly crumbling life
PASCO, Wash. (Reuters) – The afternoon before Antonio Zambrano-Montes was shot dead by police after he pelted them with rocks, the farmworker had walked out of a Washington state jail a free man.
Ex-NFL star Sharper pleads no contest in Los Angeles to two rapes
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Former National Football League star Darren Sharper pleaded no contest on Monday to charges in Los Angeles of drugging four women and raping two of them, after receiving a nine-year prison sentence for a sexual assault case in A…
U.S. to stop collecting bulk phone data if spying law expires
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. intelligence agencies in June will stop bulk collection of data on calls by U.S. telephone subscribers, unless Congress extends a law authorizing the spying, U.S. officials said on Monday.
Protest planned in Connecticut over teen’s violent arrest
NEW HAVEN, Conn. (Reuters) – A protest was being planned for later on Monday outside the New Haven, Connecticut, police headquarters following the release of a video that showed a black teenaged girl being thrown to the ground by a white police officer…
U.S. hospitals’ uncompensated care fell by $7.4 billion in 2014: government
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The costs of caring for the uninsured at U.S. hospitals fell by an estimated $7.4 billion in 2014 due to the expansion of healthcare to millions of people under Obamacare, according to a government report released on Monday.
U.S. top court wrestles over Confederate flag license plate
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Supreme Court justices on Monday appeared conflicted over how to resolve a free speech dispute over whether the state of Texas was required to approve a specialty vehicle license plate that displays a Confederate battle flag…
Maryland students accused of using Twitter to cheat on test
(Reuters) – Two Maryland high school students have been accused of using Twitter to cheat on Common Core state standardized tests, officials said on Monday.
Lack of orange juice leads Louisiana man to shoot son in buttocks
(Reuters) – A Louisiana man was in custody on Monday after shooting his 18-year-old son in the buttocks during a fight about orange juice, police said.
