Jury in Boston Marathon bomb trial sees blood-stained note
BOSTON (Reuters) – Jurors in the trial on Tuesday of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev got to see the blood-stained message that prosecutors say he wrote on the inside of a boat he was hiding in before his violent capture, explaining hi…
U.S. Marshals: three winning bidders in last week’s bitcoin auction
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The U.S. Marshals Service announced on Tuesday that three bidders won last week’s third auction of bitcoins seized from Ross Ulbricht, convicted of operating black-market website Silk Road.
Pennsylvania man sentenced to prison for killing police dog
PITTSBURGH (Reuters) – A Pennsylvania man was sentenced on Tuesday to at least 17 years in prison for fatally stabbing a Pittsburgh police dog while officers were trying to arrest him, officials said.
Fuel truck spill shuts down I-95 near Washington
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A tanker truck carrying biodiesel fuel overturned on Interstate 95 north of Washington on Tuesday, closing the busy highway, police said.
California renewable energy zone plan gets revamp after criticism
(Reuters) – An ambitious plan to put California’s renewable energy projects in areas where the environment will face the least harm is getting a major overhaul after years of delays and criticism from developers, environmentalists and counties.
Atlanta-area police shoot dead unarmed, naked African-American man
(Reuters) – A white, Atlanta-area police officer shot dead a naked and unarmed African-American man acting erratically in his apartment complex and who was possibly suffering from a mental illness, the county police chief said.
Suspect in U.S. spy agency shooting linked to other incidents
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A Maryland man who admitted to five shooting incidents, including opening fire on the National Security Agency’s headquarters, has been linked to two more area shootings, police said on Tuesday.
Oklahoma University shuts ‘disgraceful’ fraternity for racist video
NORMAN, Okla. (Reuters) – The University of Oklahoma closed a fraternity linked to a video of students singing racial epithets, ordered its members to move out of the house and labeled the actions of those involved “disgraceful.”
NSA sued by Wikimedia, rights groups over mass surveillance
(Reuters) – The U.S. National Security Agency was sued on Tuesday by an array of groups challenging one of its mass surveillance programs that they said violates Americans’ privacy and threatens communications worldwide by dissidents living under oppre…
Kleiner ex-partner Pao testifies in Silicon Valley bias case
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – A former partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers accusing the venture-capital firm of gender discrimination testified on Monday that she urged firm leaders to improve human relations policies after learning that three administrative assistants had allegedly complained about harassment.
