New judge to hear Ferguson court cases after federal probe
(Reuters) – A Missouri state appeals court judge will take over all current and future cases assigned to Ferguson’s municipal courts following a scathing U.S. Justice Department report that found systemic abuses, the Missouri Supreme Court said on Mond…
Dallas police seek four suspects in fatal ‘first snow’ shooting
DALLAS (Reuters) – Dallas police are searching for four people suspected of fatally shooting a 36-year-old Iraqi immigrant who was hit in a volley of gunfire last week when he was outside getting his first sight of snow, officials said on Monday.
New video shows Washington state landslide’s aftermath
SEATTLE (Reuters) – A rain-soaked hillside that collapsed in Washington state last March, killing 43 people, was so saturated it continued to slough huge pieces of mud more than 10 minutes after it gave way, a newly released video showed on Monday.
U.S. to investigate livestock research center over animal abuse reports
CHICAGO (Reuters) – The U.S. Agriculture Department’s Office of the Inspector General has assembled an audit team and plans to begin field work this month in an inquiry of the government’s key livestock study center amid media reports of animal welfare…
NFL’s tax-exempt status is again under fire in Congress
WASHINGTON xx (Reuters) – Congressman Jason Chaffetz insists his bid to overturn the NFL’s decades-old tax-exempt status has nothing to do with political posturing or electioneering.
Amtrak train, truck collide in North Carolina, causing minor injuries
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (Reuters) – An Amtrak passenger train derailed after crashing into a tractor trailer truck in North Carolina on Monday, sending some 40 passengers to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries, state officials said.
Wisconsin family, protesters seek justice for teen shot by police
MADISON, Wis. (Reuters) – Close to 2,000 students marched in Wisconsin’s capital on Monday to protest the fatal police shooting of an unarmed biracial teenager, while his family demanded justice and the police chief apologized.
Case opens against Alabama woman accused of running granddaughter to death
GADSDEN, Ala. (Reuters) – An Alabama woman accused of killing her granddaughter acted like a military drill instructor when she forced the 9-year-old to run back and forward in a yard carrying wood for almost three hours as punishment for lying about h…
Colorado police say black man fatally shot last week was unarmed: report
DENVER (Reuters) – Police in the Denver suburb of Aurora said on Monday that an individual who was fatally shot by an officer during an incident on Friday was an unarmed 37-year-old black man, the Denver Post newspaper reported.
Philadelphia’s ‘Black Madam’ found guilty in buttocks injection death of Londoner
(Reuters) – A Philadelphia hip-hop artist known as the “Black Madam” was found guilty on Monday of third-degree murder in the accidental killing of a British woman by an illegal injection of silicone into her buttocks, court officials said.
