Oklahoma to again employ injection mix used in flawed execution
OKLAHOMA CITY (Reuters) – Oklahoma plans to use the same lethal injection drug combination it employed during a botched execution in April, Department of Corrections officials told a federal court hearing arguments on whether to halt death sentences in the state from being carried out.
Deportations from U.S. decline in fiscal 2014: DHS report
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement deported fewer undocumented immigrants in fiscal year 2014, the Department of Homeland Security said on Friday in a report that also showed a decline in the number coming from Mexico.
Child is fourth to die from California crash, driver charged
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – A 6-year-old boy has become the fourth person to die from a crash earlier this week in which a driver plowed into pedestrians leaving a church in Southern California, and the driver was charged on Friday, officials said.
Parents of Colorado theater gunman plead for son’s life to be spared
DENVER (Reuters) – The parents of the man charged in the fatal shootings of 12 people at a Colorado movie theater broke their silence over the 2012 killings on Friday, saying their son is mentally ill, “not a monster,” and should be spared the death pe…
Obama’s year-end message to Americans: I’m not a lame duck
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – If U.S. President Barack Obama is feeling the pain from a rough year at the office, he did a great job of covering it up on Friday.
Missouri school regrets swapping blind student’s cane for foam tube
(Reuters) – A Missouri school district has apologized for taking a cane away from a blind student and forcing him to use a foam tube called a pool noodle, the boy’s father said on Friday.
NY woman who reported kidnap charged with murdering cousin
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A 19-year-old woman was arrested for the murder of her 5-year-old cousin in upstate New York on Friday, less than a day after she reported what police said was a concocted story about two men in ski masks kidnapping the boy, local …
Ferguson wants peace instead of protests, but anger still simmers
FERGUSON, Mo (Reuters) – It is hard to find much healing in Ferguson, Missouri.
Mother arrested for murder after children found dead in Australian home
SYDNEY (Reuters) – The 37-year-old mother of most of the eight children found dead in a mass stabbing in Australia’s tropical northern city of Cairns has been arrested for murder, police said on Saturday.
Friend of accused Boston bomber pleads guilty to gun, drug charges
BOSTON (Reuters) – A high school friend of the accused Boston Marathon bombers pleaded guilty on Friday to charges including having possessed a gun that prosecutors contend the suspects used to shoot dead a university police officer as they tried to fl…
