Ohio postpones all 2015 executions as it secures new drugs
CLEVELAND (Reuters) – Ohio will postpone all six executions scheduled for 2015 because it needs more time to prepare for a new execution procedure and to secure a new supply of execution drugs, the state’s prison department said on Friday.
Ex-New Jersey pharmacist gets more than 6 years in prison for trying to make ricin
(Reuters) – A former New Jersey pharmacist has been sentenced to 6-1/2 years in prison for “attempting to weaponize” the deadly toxins ricin and abrin and for possessing equipment for making illegal narcotics, the U.S. Justice Department said on Friday…
Ex-New Jersey pharmacist gets more than six years in prison for trying to make ricin
(Reuters) – A former New Jersey pharmacist has been sentenced to 6-1/2 years in prison for “attempting to weaponize” the deadly toxins ricin and abrin and for possessing equipment for making illegal narcotics, the U.S. Justice Department said on Friday…
Texas judge rules Lee Harvey Oswald casket belongs to brother
DALLAS (Reuters) – The decaying pine coffin in which Lee Harvey Oswald was buried 51 years ago rightfully belongs to the brother of President John F. Kennedy’s presumed assassin, a Texas judge ruled on Friday.
Obama, Dalai Lama due to attend U.S. prayer event February 5
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama and the Dalai Lama are scheduled to attend the U.S. National Prayer Breakfast in Washington next week, but it was unclear if they will have a private meeting like one last year that angered Beijing.
Pennsylvania treasurer to plead guilty to U.S. federal campaign violations
(Reuters) – Pennsylvania Treasurer Rob McCord on Friday admitted to having “stepped over the line” in seeking campaign contributions, and will plead guilty to federal campaign law violations, according to his attorneys.
Defense in Etan Patz murder trial in New York attacks confession
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Mental illness sparked a false confession by the accused killer of Etan Patz and the real suspect in the 1979 disappearance of the boy in New York City is another man – a convicted child molester – a defense attorney told the jury …
Suspected Ebola patient in California tests negative for virus
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (Reuters) – Hours after a suspected Ebola patient in Sacramento was found to be free of the virus, a second person hospitalized in California’s capital was reported by public health officials on Friday to be undergoing evaluation and…
U.S. reporter says turns up in Venezuela ad campaign despite 2013 arrest
CARACAS (Reuters) – An American reporter briefly arrested in Venezuela in 2013 said he has unwittingly turned up in an ad promoting the South American country.
Tennessee man charged in failed Gambia coup attempt
MINNEAPOLIS (Reuters) – Prosecutors have charged a third U.S. citizen in connection with a deadly attempt to overthrow the government of the tiny African nation of Gambia in late December, the U.S. Attorney for Minnesota said on Friday.
