Accused ‘flash crash’ trader seeks release from custody
LONDON (Reuters) – The British trader fighting extradition to the United States on charges of having contributed to the 2010 “flash crash” on Wall Street will go to London’s High Court next week to seek his release from custody, his lawyer said on Wedn…
Arizona prosecutors charge woman who faked cancer
PHOENIX (Reuters) – An Arizona woman was charged with fraud and identity theft after faking cancer to get the state to pay for her late-term abortion five years ago, prosecutors said on Tuesday.
Five found shot dead in Arizona home
PHOENIX (Reuters) – Five men and women were found shot dead in an Arizona home on Tuesday, the Arizona Daily Star newspaper reported.
ETF companies boost bank credit lines amid liquidity concern
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The biggest providers of exchange-traded funds, which have been funneling billions of investor dollars into some little-traded corners of the bond market, are bolstering bank credit lines for cash to tap in the event of a market me…
Wisconsin officer will not face charges in killing of biracial teen
MADISON, Wis. (Reuters) – A Wisconsin police officer who fatally shot an unarmed biracial teenager in March, prompting several days of peaceful protests, will not be charged, a prosecutor said on Tuesday.
Harriet Tubman wins poll to replace Andrew Jackson on $20 bill
(Reuters) – Twenty-dollar bills could soon be known as “Tubmans” if a grassroots campaign succeeds in persuading President Barack Obama to remove Andrew Jackson’s portrait from circulation on U.S. paper currency in favor of a famous woman in U.S. histo…
Los Angeles job growth flat while San Francisco booms, report says
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (Reuters) – The number of private sector jobs in the Los Angeles area has remained relatively flat over the past quarter century, while employment in the San Francisco Bay Area has boomed, a report by a business group shows.
California man gets year in jail for beating poodle to death
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – A Los Angeles-area man who prosecutors say beat his poodle to death last year was sentenced on Tuesday to a year in jail and ordered to attend anger management and animal cruelty classes.
Bird flu outbreak hits Nebraska poultry farm: USDA
(Reuters) – The fast-spreading avian flu virus was confirmed for the first time in Nebraska, at a commercial egg-laying farm that housed a flock of 1.7 million chickens, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said on Tuesday.
Idaho schools warned not to force girls to wear dresses to graduation
SALMON, Idaho (Reuters) – A civil liberties group warned Idaho’s public school districts on Tuesday that a secondary school’s decision to require girls to wear white or pastel dresses or skirts to graduation could be discriminatory.
