Ferguson police chief resigns after scathing Justice Department report
FERGUSON/KANSAS CITY, Mo. (Reuters) – The police chief of Ferguson, Missouri, resigned on Wednesday, following a scathing U.S. Justice Department report that found widespread racially biased abuses in the city’s police department and municipal court.
Federal judge allows removal of Arizona homeless protest ‘pods’
TUCSON, Ariz. (Reuters) – A federal judge ruled on Wednesday that the city of Tucson, Arizona, can forcibly remove scores of coffin-like “pods” set up on city sidewalks to protest treatment of the homeless but that the demonstrators can continue to cam…
Demonstrators protest police shooting in Madison, Wisconsin
MADISON, Wis. (Reuters) – About 1,500 people, some banging plastic pails or blowing whistles, marched on Wednesday to the Wisconsin corrections department in Madison to protest the fatal police shooting last week of an unarmed biracial young man.
Students vote to condemn anti-Semitism after incidents on UC campuses
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (Reuters) – Students at two University of California campuses have passed resolutions condemning anti-Semitism after incidents on two UC campuses, including the painting of swastikas on the doors of a Jewish fraternity at UC Davis.
Seattle man kills girlfriend, drives her body to psychiatric hospital
SEATTLE (Reuters) – A Seattle-area man was charged on Wednesday with killing his girlfriend and then driving her body to a local psychiatric facility where he admitted to the crime and asked to be taken in as a patient, the King County prosecutor’s off…
Underground bunker in Washington state linked to arrested fugitive: FBI
SEATTLE (Reuters) – Authorities in Washington state have discovered an underground bunker they believe was used by a convicted bank robber who fled police custody in 2009 and evaded arrest until last year, officials said on Wednesday.
U.S. Army sergeant pleads guilty to sex ring charges at Texas base
AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) – A U.S. Army soldier accused of running a prostitution ring at Fort Hood, one of the largest Army bases in the country, pled guilty on Wednesday to 15 charges related to the accusation, officials said on Wednesday.
Texas executes gang enforcer Vasquez for murder
AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) – Texas on Wednesday executed a 46-year-old gang member convicted of murdering a woman because she would not pay extortion money demanded by the Mexican Mafia criminal organization.
Toddler rescued from car in Utah river released from hospital
SALT LAKE CITY (Reuters) – A toddler rescued from a car that plunged into a Utah river last week was released from a Salt Lake City hospital on Wednesday, four days after she was found alive and dangling upside down in her car seat some 14 hours after …
Texas executes 46-year-old man for gangland murder of woman
AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) – Texas on Wednesday executed a 46-year-old man, who was a gang member convicted of murdering a woman because she would not pay extortion money demanded by the Mexican Mafia criminal organization.
