Boston mayor vows no overspending on 2024 Olympics
BOSTON (Reuters) – Boston Mayor Martin Walsh on Friday vowed that if the city hosts the 2024 Summer Olympics it would avoid the huge public spending overruns that have tainted other Olympics in recent years.
Battle of New Orleans bicentennial spurs large-scale re-enactment
CHALMETTE, La. (Reuters) – Huddled around a Louisiana campfire on Thursday, a man dressed in the rumpled clothes of an American militia member from the 1815 Battle of New Orleans put in historical perspective the frigid night he had spent in a nearby t…
U.S. eco-bombing plotter released early by California judge
(Reuters) – A California man described by prosecutors as an “eco-terrorist” was ordered released from prison by a U.S. judge after serving about half of an almost 20 year prison sentence for plotting to blow up a federal forestry site, court documents …
Slump in New York arrests, fines hits traffic lawyers, bail bondsmen
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A sharp drop in arrests and fines in New York may prove costly for the city but it could already be hurting some traffic lawyers and bail bonds firms, which are seeing their phones ring less often as fewer people are in trouble and…
Executives plead not guilty over West Virginia chemical spill: media
BECKLEY, W. Va. (Reuters) – Three former executives pleaded not guilty on Thursday to charges stemming from a chemical spill that fouled drinking water for about 300,000 West Virginians, media reported.
Albuquerque bus crashes through woman’s home, seven injured
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (Reuters) – An Albuquerque city bus collided with another vehicle then rammed into a woman’s house on Thursday, injuring seven people, police said.
Arizona sheriff’s lawyers ask judge not to pursue contempt charges
PHOENIX (Reuters) – Lawyers defending Arizona sheriff Joe Arpaio urged a federal judge on Thursday not to proceed with contempt charges against the lawman and his department over the violation of court orders in a 2007 racial-profiling case.
New Jersey boy dies when folding bench at school gym collapses
(Reuters) – After a folding bench collapsed and killed an 8-year-old boy in a gym at a New Jersey elementary school, an administrator with the school district said on Thursday there had been no previous safety issues with the benches.
Prosecutors in Colorado cinema massacre case want to bar some videos
DENVER (Reuters) – Prosecutors in the death penalty murder trial of accused Colorado cinema gunman James Holmes want certain videos barred from a potential sentencing hearing should jurors convict him of killing 12 moviegoers, court documents showed on…
New video released in police shooting of Cleveland boy
CLEVELAND (Reuters) – Cleveland police did not appear to have given immediate aid to Tamir Rice after an officer fatally shot the 12-year-old boy in a city park in November, according to a security video of the incident released on Thursday.
