‘Free-range’ parents in Maryland found responsible for neglect
(Reuters) – A Maryland couple who drew national attention for being “free-range” parents after police found their children walking home alone have been found responsible for child neglect, a state child protective services spokeswoman said on Tuesday.
Computerized school testing off to a rocky start in Florida
MIAMI (Reuters) – Newly computerized state tests were suspended on Tuesday in some of Florida’s largest public school districts after students across the state struggled with faulty software.
U.S. Supreme Court checks in on hotel records privacy case
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Supreme Court justices on Tuesday appeared unsure over how to resolve a privacy rights challenge by hotel operators to a Los Angeles city ordinance, intended to deter crimes including prostitution, that lets police view gues…
Killers sought in deaths of 300,000 chickens in South Carolina
CHARLESTON, S.C. (Reuters) – Revenge may be the motive for the killings in South Carolina of more than 300,000 commercial chickens worth about $1.7 million over the past two weeks, authorities said on Monday.
Georgia postpones executions over lethal injection drug
ATLANTA (Reuters) – Two executions in Georgia were indefinitely postponed on Tuesday to give the state time to analyze its lethal injection drug after corrections officials said a batch “appeared cloudy” hours before one of the death sentences was due …
District of Columbia puts limits on newly legalized marijuana
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The District of Columbia city council voted on Tuesday to limit newly legal marijuana use, banning smoking in bars and clubs and restricting it to private homes.
Oregon woman heading home after six months stuck in East Timor
PORTLAND, Ore. (Reuters) – An Oregon woman arrested on a drug charge while traveling in East Timor last September and who has maintained her innocence, has been allowed to leave the country after six months of diplomatic negotiations, U.S. Senator Ron …
Guantanamo prisoner wants court to have U.S. Senate torture report
FORT MEADE, Md. (Reuters) – Lawyers for a Saudi man held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba who is charged with orchestrating the suicide bombing of the USS Cole asked on Tuesday for a sealed copy of the Senate’s CIA torture report to be provided to a military judge for safekeeping.
Illinois wife-killer cop pleads not guilty in murder-for-hire plot
CHICAGO (Reuters) – A former Chicago-area police officer who is serving a 38-year term for the 2004 murder of his third wife, pleaded not guilty on Tuesday to charges that he tried to hire a hitman to kill the prosecutor who got him convicted.
Cleveland legal response to boy’s shooting disrespectful: mother
CLEVELAND (Reuters) – Cleveland lawyers offered a disrespectful response to a lawsuit filed for 12-year-old Tamir Rice, fatally shot by police outside a recreation center in November, the boy’s mother said on Tuesday.
