Michigan boy found in basement was abused doctor tells court
DETROIT (Reuters) – A Detroit boy who was missing for 11 days last June before police found him emaciated in his own basement suffered years of social isolation, excessive exercise and beatings, a doctor said on Friday in a hearing on abuse charges aga…
Washington governor won’t remove prosecutor probing police shooting of farmworker
SEATTLE (Reuters) – Washington state Governor Jay Inslee has temporarily denied a request by a Latino advocacy group to remove a local prosecutor from a probe into the controversial death of a Mexican orchard worker shot dead by police after pelting th…
Ex-POW Bergdahl did not try to desert U.S. Army, his lawyer says
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Army Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl was trying to find a U.S. general officer to report a disturbing situation when he left his combat outpost in Afghanistan and was captured by the Taliban, and he did not intend to desert, accordin…
JetBlue sued by ex-pilot who had midair meltdown
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A former JetBlue Airways Corp pilot whose midair meltdown forced an emergency landing of a 2012 flight on Friday sued the carrier for $14.9 million, saying it should have grounded him because it knew he was incapable of flying.
Woman in Colorado fetus attack charged with attempted murder
BOULDER, Colo. (Reuters) – A Colorado woman who police say admitted to cutting a fetus from a stranger was charged with attempted murder and unlawful termination of a pregnancy on Friday, after the coroner said there was no evidence the unborn child su…
NYC mayor says possibility gas line wrongly tapped before blast
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Workers may have “inappropriately” tapped into a gas line before a devastating explosion in New York City that destroyed buildings, injured 22 people and left at least two people unaccounted for, Mayor Bill de Blasio said on Friday…
University of Oklahoma says racist song began with national fraternity
OKLAHOMA CITY (Reuters) – A racist song chanted by members of a University of Oklahoma fraternity was learned at a national Sigma Alpha Epsilon leadership cruise four years ago and became a part of the chapter’s culture, school President David Boren sa…
California Governor Brown signs $1 billion emergency drought package
(Reuters) – California Governor Jerry Brown signed emergency legislation on Friday that fast-tracks over $1 billion in funding for drought relief and water infrastructure within the parched state.
Deal reached over insurance money for missing Utah mother Susan Powell
SEATTLE (Reuters) – The family of Susan Powell, a Utah woman who vanished in 2009 and whose husband later killed himself and the couple’s two young sons, has reached a settlement with her husband’s family over the couple’s estate and life insurance mon…
Detroit children found in freezer died by trauma, burns
DETROIT (Reuters) – The deaths of two children whose bodies were found in a freezer in their mother’s Detroit apartment were the result of homicides, a county medical examiner said on Friday.
