Judge reduces sentences for Amish in beard-cutting attacks
CLEVELAND (Reuters) – Eight members of an Amish sect received reduced prison sentences on Monday, following a federal court ruling in Ohio that they did not commit a hate crime when they cut off the beards and hair of fellow members of their faith.
Sex offender who fled Canada for U.S. arrested on rape charge near Seattle
SEATTLE (Reuters) – A convicted sex offender in Canada who fled the country illegally in 2013 has been arrested in Washington state on charges of rape and burglary, law enforcement officials said on Monday.
Accused Boston bomber’s slain older brother to loom over trial
BOSTON (Reuters) – Lawyers for the Boston Marathon bombing suspect sparred with federal prosecutors on Monday over how early in the trial they may discuss his older brother’s role in the attack, suggesting the defendant’s life may well hang on that que…
Former Atlanta superintendent charged in school cheating case dies
ATLANTA (Reuters) – Former Atlanta schools Superintendent Beverly Hall, who was deemed too ill from breast cancer to stand trial with a dozen former educators accused in a standardized test cheating scandal, has died, her attorney said on Monday. She w…
Exclusive: Obama defends lack of ‘Plan B’ for Obamacare court case
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama on Monday said he thinks there is no “plausible legal basis” for the U.S. Supreme Court to strike down a key plank of Obamacare, defending his administration’s lack of a contingency plan.
Woman raped in Connecticut by man she met on dating app: police
(Reuters) – A Massachusetts woman was raped in New Haven, Connecticut, on Monday by a man she met through an online dating app, police said.
Georgia’s sole female death row inmate set to be executed
ATLANTA (Reuters) – The only woman on death row in Georgia is scheduled to be executed on Monday for her husband’s 1997 murder, barring last-minute legal action.
White House task force urges closer scrutiny of police
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A White House-commissioned task force recommended independent outside investigations of police use of deadly force on Monday, in a report following the fatal shooting by a policeman in Ferguson, Missouri of an unarmed black teena…
Police come under questioning in case of New York boy missing since 1979
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Attorneys for a former grocery store worker accused of the 1979 killing of a New York City boy pressed a police detective on Monday about his interrogation techniques, as they seek to prove the accused man’s confession was coerced….
One dead, four hurt in California restaurant brawl shooting
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – One person was shot dead and four others wounded when gunfire erupted during a brawl in a Southern California restaurant on Monday, and two of those hurt were in custody including one subdued by a security guard at the scene, po…
