Teen accomplice gets 16 years in Spokane murder of World War Two vet
SEATTLE (Reuters) – A Washington state teenager was sentenced to 16 years in prison on Thursday for his role in the murder of an 88-year-old World War Two veteran who was beaten to death during a robbery outside a Spokane fraternal lodge, his lawyer sa…
Rookie LAPD officer sought in murder likely fled to Texas: FBI
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – A rookie Los Angeles police officer accused of killing a man after a fight in the bar district of a Southern California community was driven to a Texas city on the Mexican border by his father last week and has not been seen sin…
FBI probing death of black man hanging from tree in Mississippi
(Reuters) – The FBI is investigating the death of a black man found hanging from a tree in Mississippi on Thursday in what may be either a crime or a suicide, the agency said.
Suspect in fatal Arizona shooting rampage appears in court
PHOENIX (Reuters) – An Arizona ex-convict appeared in court on Thursday accused of killing one person and wounding five others in a shooting rampage that began at a motel in suburban Phoenix and ended with the suspect’s capture four hours later.
DIY bomb instructions, device remains shown at Boston trial
BOSTON (Reuters) – The Boston Marathon bombing trial jury on Thursday saw the remains of a pressure-cooker bomb that prosecutors say Dzhokhar Tsarnaev hurled at police during a gunfight four days after the bombing as well as jihadist files recovered fr…
Britain’s Prince Charles meets Obama on U.S. goodwill tour
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Britain’s Prince Charles and his wife Camilla met with President Barack Obama at the White House on Thursday as part of a goodwill tour of the United States.
Penn State president says campus fraternity system may need ‘re-evaluation’
(Reuters) – Penn State University’s president says a re-evaluation of the school’s fraternity system may be needed after a fraternity was suspended for posting online photographs of nude women, some of them apparently unconscious.
Five Arizona high schoolers accused of plotting to murder classmate
PHOENIX (Reuters) – Police have arrested five high school students in southern Arizona who are accused of making a detailed plot to murder a classmate off campus, authorities said on Thursday.
Feds file new subpoena in NY-New Jersey Bridgegate probe: source
NEW YORK (Reuters) – U.S. federal prosecutors have issued a new subpoena into whether New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie’s office had tried to extract political support from the Democratic mayor of Jersey City, a source familiar with the matter said on Thu…
Student engineer was operating train in California crash
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – A student engineer was operating a Los Angeles-bound commuter train when it slammed into a pickup truck that had taken a wrong turn onto the tracks last month, killing one person and injuring 50, federal safety investigators sai…
