Obama roots on Princeton women’s basketball team including niece
COLLEGE PARK, Md. (Reuters) – President Barack Obama, a hoops fanatic who relishes the annual March Madness college basketball tournaments, on Saturday cheered on the undefeated Princeton women’s team that includes his niece Leslie Robinson as the scho…
Confronting past, Mississippi town erects Emmett Till museum
SUMNER, Miss. (Reuters) – Six decades after the brutal slaying of Emmett Till, a 14-year-old black boy, the small Mississippi Delta town where two white men were acquitted of his murder is dedicating a museum to the event credited with helping spark th…
Officer shoots man who attacked TSA agents at New Orleans airport
NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) – A law enforcement officer shot a man who attacked several Transportation Security Administration (TSA) agents while armed with a machete and wasp spray at a New Orleans airport on Friday night, officials said.
Tech glitch causes false notices to Oregon crime victims
(Reuters) – A technical glitch on Friday evening caused an Oregon Department of Corrections (DOC) notification system to issue thousands of alerts to crime victims that the perpetrators would soon be released, according to officials and the Oregonian n…
Wisconsin federal judge finds state abortion law unconstitutional
(Reuters) – A federal judge in Wisconsin ruled as unconstitutional on Friday a state law requiring any doctor performing an abortion to have privileges to admit patients to a nearby hospital.
California man pleads guilty to fatal Halloween hit-and-run
(Reuters) – A man who struck and killed three 13-year-old California girls as they were trick-or-treating last Halloween and then fled in his damaged sport utility vehicle pleaded guilty on Friday to several felony charges, prosecutors said.
Alabama woman convicted of running granddaughter to death
(Reuters) – An Alabama jury on Friday convicted a woman of murdering her granddaughter by forcing the 9-year-old to run back and forward in a yard carrying wood for almost three hours as punishment, according to a spokeswoman for the local sheriff’s of…
Police arrest a second suspect in slaying of Las Vegas mom
(Reuters) – Police in Las Vegas said Friday they had arrested the getaway driver in a high-profile shooting case that was initially thought to have been sparked by road rage.
Colorado woman admits cutting fetus from stranger’s womb: court papers
DENVER (Reuters) – A Colorado woman admitted that she cut an unborn child out of the womb of a stranger, and her husband told police he heard the fetus emit a “gasping breath” before it died, court documents showed on Friday.
Florida mother held in suspected murder-suicide attempt
ORLANDO (Reuters) – Florida police are investigating what they believe to be an attempted murder-suicide by a mother who killed her six-year-old daughter and critically wounded her two sons, Palm Beach police spokeswoman Yvonne Martinez said Friday eve…
