Penn State president says campus fraternity system may need ‘re-evaluation’
(Reuters) – Penn State University’s president says a re-evaluation of the school’s fraternity system may be needed after a fraternity was suspended for posting online photographs of nude women, some of them apparently unconscious.
Five Arizona high schoolers accused of plotting to murder classmate
PHOENIX (Reuters) – Police have arrested five high school students in southern Arizona who are accused of making a detailed plot to murder a classmate off campus, authorities said on Thursday.
Feds file new subpoena in NY-New Jersey Bridgegate probe: source
NEW YORK (Reuters) – U.S. federal prosecutors have issued a new subpoena into whether New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie’s office had tried to extract political support from the Democratic mayor of Jersey City, a source familiar with the matter said on Thu…
Student engineer was operating train in California crash
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – A student engineer was operating a Los Angeles-bound commuter train when it slammed into a pickup truck that had taken a wrong turn onto the tracks last month, killing one person and injuring 50, federal safety investigators sai…
Beating of UVA student prompts call to disempower alcohol officers
RICHMOND, Va. (Reuters) – Asking why a young man was “beaten like a dog,” a prominent Virginia state senator on Thursday called for stripping state Alcoholic Beverage Control agents of their arrest powers after officers of the agency bloodied a black c…
Continental Resources adds to oil acreage at North Dakota auction
WILLISTON, N.D. (Reuters) – Continental Resources Inc, the second-largest North Dakota oil producer, spent $2.3 million at a state land auction for the right to explore for crude on 160 acres, outbidding its nearest rival with just seconds left on the …
Colorado woman accused of cutting fetus from stranger held on $2 million bond
BOULDER, Colo. (Reuters) – A Colorado woman appeared in court on Thursday accused of cutting a fetus out of another woman’s womb after luring her with a Craigslist ad, then taking it to a hospital and claiming to have had a miscarriage.
Florida high court rejects life sentences for juvenile crimes
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (Reuters) – The Florida Supreme Court on Thursday threw out what amounted to life sentences for four prisoners who had committed their crimes as juveniles, citing U.S. high court rulings that rejected long prison terms for youths.
Washington state man sentenced for online threats against Missouri officer
SEATTLE (Reuters) – A Washington state man who pleaded guilty to making online death threats will not face additional prison time for menacing Facebook posts directed at a Missouri police officer who killed an unarmed black teenager, a federal judge ru…
NY judge will not release grand jury transcripts in chokehold death
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A New York state judge on Thursday refused to release the transcripts of secret grand jury proceedings into the killing of an unarmed black man last July by a white police officer who put him in a chokehold.
