Judge OKs settlements for 78 World Trade Center cleanup workers
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A federal judge on Thursday approved settlements for 78 cleanup workers who claimed to have suffered respiratory and gastrointestinal illnesses while working in buildings near the World Trade Center site after the Sept. 11, 2011 at…
Jury starts deliberating in sweeping Atlanta test cheating case
ATLANTA (Reuters) – Jurors who have heard nearly six months of testimony began deliberating on Thursday to decide if a dozen former Atlanta public school educators are guilty of conspiring to change standardized test scores to secure promotions and cas…
Former Illinois state lawmaker sentenced to 8 years for child porn
CHICAGO (Reuters) – A federal judge on Thursday sentenced a former Illinois state lawmaker to eight years in prison for sending child pornography through office computers, rejecting a request that the critically ill man be allowed to die at home.
Pentagon official who sought to move judges to Guantanamo quits
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A Pentagon official who sought to move military judges to Guantanamo Bay to speed up slow-moving trials of al Qaeda suspects is resigning, the Defense Department has said.
Underground blasts in Indianapolis blow out manhole covers: report
(Reuters) – Manhole covers popped into the air and smoke billowed after a series of underground explosions in Indianapolis on Thursday morning, Indiana’s WHTR television reported.
Texas sues to block family medical leave for same-sex married couples
(Reuters) – The state of Texas sued the U.S. Labor Department over a rule that would grant family medical leave protections to all married same-sex couples, saying it violates the rights of states that don’t recognize gay marriage.
One killed, five wounded in shooting spree in Phoenix suburb
MESA, Ariz. (Reuters) – A gunman opened fire inside a motel room in the Phoenix suburb of Mesa on Wednesday, killing a man and wounding two women before shooting three more people as he sought to elude an exhaustive manhunt that ended in his capture, p…
Lawsuit targets U.S. program on suspicious behavior at airports
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A civil liberties group on Thursday sued the U.S. government for information about a program that screens airport passengers using behavior detection techniques that it says is a vehicle for racial and religious profiling.
Some video of Secret Service scandal may have been erased: CNN
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Surveillance video of two U.S. Secret Service agents drunk driving at the White House may have been erased as part of the agency’s policy of deleting recordings every 72 hours, CNN reported on Thursday.
Two more U.S. healthcare workers repatriated for Ebola monitoring
(Reuters) – The last two members of a group of U.S. healthcare workers whose colleague is being treated for the Ebola virus returned on Wednesday from Sierra Leone to the United States, where they are being monitored for possible exposure to the deadly…
