Jodi Arias trial to cost Arizona taxpayers more than $3.2 million: officials
PHOENIX (Reuters) – The trials of convicted murderer Jodi Arias in Arizona will end up costing taxpayers more than $3.2 million to cover defense and prosecution expenses during the closely watched proceedings, county officials said on Friday.
Prosecution rests in case of New York boy’s 1979 murder
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Prosecutors rested their case in the trial of a former grocery worker accused of the 1979 choking murder of a New York City boy, wrapping up on Friday with testimony of a medical examiner describing how strangulation and asphyxiati…
Texas man jailed for sending harassing emails to Yahoo CEO
AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) – A man previously convicted of harassing Yahoo Inc Chief Executive Officer Marissa Mayer has been arrested by Austin police on suspicion of sending her sexually graphic emails, according to police records released on Friday.
Delta refinery, union reach deal on local issues, likely avoiding strike
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Delta Air Lines Inc’s Philadelphia-area refinery has struck a deal with the local union that will likely prevent the facility from joining the country’s largest U.S. refinery strike in 35 years.
New York airport alarm reveals stowaway dog in checked luggage
NEW YORK (Reuters) – U.S. security agents searching a checked suitcase after an alarm went off at New York’s LaGuardia Airport expected the usual contraband – guns, knives or a hand grenade – but instead found a stowaway Chihuahua, authorities said on …
U.S. Air Force eyes Textron plane, others for future air support
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Air Force is looking at Textron Inc’s Scorpion and other aircraft to address future needs for low-end air support missions given its plans to retire the aging fleet of A-10 Warthog planes in coming years, a top general s…
Tesla says Nevada battery plant on track despite report of delay
DETROIT (Reuters) – Tesla Motor Inc said on Friday that construction of its giant $5 billion battery plant in Nevada remains on schedule despite a newspaper report saying the electric carmaker’s project was delayed.
Prosecutors in Colorado cinema massacre trial seek to restrict graphic images
DENVER (Reuters) – Prosecutors in the murder case against Colorado cinema gunman James Holmes are asking that crime scene and autopsy photographs and videos of victims be restricted at the upcoming trial, court records showed on Friday.
Family sues Amazon.com, others over Ohio student’s caffeine overdose death
CLEVELAND (Reuters) – The family of a Northeast Ohio high school senior who died of a caffeine overdose last year filed a wrongful death lawsuit on Friday against several companies including Amazon.com Inc, which shipped the supplement.
Los Angeles, police union strike pay agreement: Los Angeles Times
(Reuters) – Los Angeles city officials and its police union took a step toward ending a lengthy and often tense labor dispute by reaching a tentative pay agreement on Friday that would grant raises in the last three years of a four-year contract, accor…
