Bathroom confession critical in Durst case – legal experts
NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) – New York real estate scion and accused murderer Robert Durst’s bathroom muttering that he “killed them all” would likely be admissible evidence in a murder trial, legal experts said on Monday.
U.S. Ebola patient now in critical condition: NIH
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – An American being treated for Ebola was in critical condition Monday, the U.S. National Institutes of Health in Maryland said.
U.S. counter terrorism official faces new charges of voyeurism
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – An official in the U.S. State Department’s counter terrorism unit accused of soliciting a minor faces new charges of alleged stalking and voyeurism, Washington police said on Monday.
Witnesses recall accused Boston bomber’s fight with police, arrest
BOSTON (Reuters) – The accused Boston Marathon bombers tossed bombs and fired a pistol at police in their final hours on the run before a dazed and wounded Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was found hiding in a drydocked boat and arrested, witnesses testified on Mond…
Rookie Los Angeles police officer sought in fatal bar shooting
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – A rookie Los Angeles police officer was being sought on suspicion of murder on Monday in the fatal Southern California shooting of another man in a bar district, and authorities warned that he was considered armed and dangerous….
Obama: care more about jobs, war and peace – less about weed
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama has a stern message for the younger generation about their political priorities: care more about climate change, and less about legalizing marijuana.
Ex-girlfriend of NASCAR’s Busch ‘stunned’ no charges filed
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The former girlfriend of Kurt Busch said on Monday she was “stunned” that prosecutors declined to file criminal domestic abuse charges against the NASCAR driver after a commissioner ruled earlier she had likely been choked and ha…
New York goes high-tech to detect gunfire amid rise in shootings
NEW YORK (Reuters) – New York City police are employing a high-tech system to pinpoint gunfire amid an uptick in shootings in the nation’s largest city, officials said on Monday.
Closing arguments begin in Georgia school testing scandal
ATLANTA (Reuters) – A dozen Atlanta public school educators charged with conspiring to cheat on student standardized test scores did so to boost their paychecks, a prosecutor said during closing arguments on Monday.
California grants posthumous law license to nation’s first Chinese-born lawyer
(Reuters) – California’s top court granted a posthumous law license on Monday to the country’s first recognized lawyer born in China, an immigrant who was denied the right to practice law in the state in 1890 because of his race.
