DIY bomb instructions, device remains shown at Boston trial
BOSTON (Reuters) – The Boston Marathon bombing trial jury on Thursday saw the remains of a pressure-cooker bomb that prosecutors say Dzhokhar Tsarnaev hurled at police during a gunfight four days after the bombing as well as jihadist files recovered fr…
Britain’s Prince Charles meets Obama on U.S. goodwill tour
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Britain’s Prince Charles and his wife Camilla met with President Barack Obama at the White House on Thursday as part of a goodwill tour of the United States.
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.
