New York Governor Cuomo sets date for special congressional election
(Reuters) – New York Governor Andrew Cuomo on Friday ordered a special election to be held in May to fill the seat vacated by a Staten Island congressman who pleaded guilty to felony tax evasion, hours before a deadline set by a federal judge.
Seattle-area teens plead not guilty to attempted rape of classmate
SEATTLE (Reuters) – Four Seattle-area teenage athletes pleaded not guilty on Friday to charges of attempted rape stemming from an attack with a broom on a special needs student in a high school locker room in what authorities have described as an appar…
Idaho homeowner shoots and wounds man who escaped jail through ceiling
SALMON, Idaho (Reuters) – An Idaho homeowner shot and wounded an escaped inmate who had made his getaway by slithering across crawl space above the jail ceiling and then fleeing on foot through the facility’s front door, authorities said on Friday.
Despite no warrant, man went with police, confessed to New York boy’s murder
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A defense lawyer for a man who confessed to the decades-old murder of a New York boy tried to show jurors on Friday that his client willingly accompanied police who had no warrant and therefore was not the calculating killer descri…
Rescue in sight for massive tunneling drill stuck underneath Seattle
SEATTLE (Reuters) – The world’s largest tunnel-boring machine, stuck for over a year deep underneath downtown Seattle, was within feet of rescue on Friday, a state official said, raising hopes that a stalled $3.1 billion roadway overhaul could get back…
Amid controversy, oil trains quietly rerouted through Virginia towns
(Reuters) – Hundreds of communities across the United States have become accustomed to the sight of mile-long oil trains rumbling by in recent years. Pembroke, Virginia, was not one of them, until now.
Massachusetts Governor names panel to tackle tangled transit network
BOSTON (Reuters) – Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker on Friday named a seven-member panel to develop a plan for turning around Boston’s transit system, which has struggled to maintain service after this winter’s record-setting series of snowfalls.
Virginia ex-first lady sentenced to prison for corruption
RICHMOND, Va. (Reuters) – Former Virginia first lady Maureen McDonnell was sentenced on Friday to 12 months and one day in prison for her federal corruption conviction for taking bribes from a businessman.
Maryland prisons official fired for joking about being groped
(Reuters) – A senior Maryland state corrections official has been fired after making comments on social media about being groped in prison by guards, a prisons spokesman said on Friday.
U.S. names Bernard Aronson as envoy to Colombia peace process
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States moved on Friday to play a more direct role in Colombia’s peace talks, naming Bernard “Bernie” Aronson, a former U.S. assistant secretary of state for Inter-American Affairs, as a special envoy to the process.
