Georgia to allow hormone therapy for transgender inmates
ATLANTA (Reuters) – Transgender inmates in Georgia will be eligible to receive hormone therapy treatments while in prison, Georgia corrections officials said on Friday as they contend with a lawsuit filed by a transgender prisoner denied hormones.
Study finds Virginia leads nation in referring students to police
(Reuters) – Virginia leads the nation in the number of students it sends to police, and nationwide special needs and black children are disproportionately affected, a study released on Friday showed.
Northern Illinois tornado kills at least two, injures 20
(Reuters) – At least two people were killed and 20 injured when a tornado ripped through a small northern Illinois town on Thursday night, Illinois Governor Bruce Rauner said on Friday.
Disabled Connecticut man ordered freed after 26 years in prison
HARTFORD, Conn. (Reuters) – A judge on Friday ordered the release of a 69-year-old mentally disabled Connecticut man who has been imprisoned for a quarter century for rape and murder based on a contested confession but was found last month to have been…
Kansas study shows USDA land value surveys below market prices
CHICAGO (Reuters) – Actual farmland prices in Kansas, the top U.S. wheat state, generally run far higher than values shown from surveys of farmland owners conducted by the U.S. Agriculture Department, according to a study by a Kansas State University e…
Air Force general reprimanded over A-10 ‘treason’ remark
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – An Air Force major general has been formally reprimanded and removed from his job for telling a group of officers that talking to Congress in a bid to block retirement of the A-10 Warthog amounted to “treason,” the Air Force said…
After four days, no verdict in ex-NFL star Hernandez’s murder trial
FALL RIVER, Mass. (Reuters) – The jury in the murder trial of former National Football League star Aaron Hernandez finished its fourth day of deliberations on Friday without a verdict.
Connecticut man gets probation for infant son’s death in hot car
(This April 9 story corrects to change sixth paragraph to read “hyperthermia” instead of “hypothermia”)
Ex-Harvard lecturer convicted of bilking Hong Kong jewelry magnate
BOSTON (Reuters) – A former Harvard lecturer was convicted by a Boston jury of stealing more than $600,000 from a couple in Hong Kong, after they paid him more than $2 million to help get their sons accepted into Ivy League schools.
Maryland police search for man who shot officer near convenience store
(Reuters) – Authorities in Maryland are searching for a man who shot and seriously injured a police officer early Friday morning in a confrontation outside a convenience store near the state’s capital, according to police.
