Inmate shot during altercation in restroom at Texas airport
(Reuters) – A law enforcement officer shot and wounded an inmate Friday evening during a confrontation in the restroom of the Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport, according to airport officials.
Chicago starts removing ‘dibs’ markers for parking as tempers flare
CHICAGO (Reuters) – Chicago officials on Friday started collecting the lawn chairs, card tables and other items placed on city streets by residents who sought to reserve their parking spaces – a controversial winter custom known as “dibs.”
Utah House lawmakers vote in support of firing squad proposal
SALT LAKE CITY (Reuters) – Lawmakers in Utah’s House of Representatives voted narrowly on Friday to approve a bill that would reintroduce the use of firing squads for executions in the state.
U.N. chief praises three young Muslims killed in North Carolina
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Friday praised three young Muslims killed in North Carolina as representing the best values of global citizenship and said he was deeply moved by scenes of thousands of people m…
Obama denounces ‘outrageous murders’ of three U.S. Muslims
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama on Friday described the deaths of three young Muslims gunned down in North Carolina this week as “brutal and outrageous murders” and said no one in the United States should be targeted for the…
Ginsburg explains nap during Obama speech: ‘I wasn’t 100 percent sober’
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg says there was a good reason she nodded off while attending President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address last month: “I wasn’t 100 percent sober.”
Majority of Alabama counties issuing marriage licenses to gay couples
(Reuters) – Officials in 24 Alabama counties began issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples on Friday, gay rights advocates said, a day after a U.S. judge ordered one local official to issue licenses to gay couples in accordance with an earlier ru…
California has three new measles cases, Arizona says outbreak winding down
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – California public health officials have confirmed three more cases of measles in an outbreak that began in late December, bringing to 113 the total number of people believed to have been infected in the state.
Illinois comptroller refuses to implement anti-union order
CHICAGO (Reuters) – Illinois’ comptroller will not implement an anti-union executive order issued by the state’s new Republican governor earlier this week, the state’s attorney general’s office said on Friday.
Oregon man admits helping people linked to Pakistan suicide bombing
(Reuters) – An Oregon man pleaded guilty on Friday to being an accessory after the fact for helping people linked to a suicide bomb attack on the headquarters of Pakistan’s intelligence service in 2009 that killed about 30 people, court records showed….
