U.S. Navy probes alleged illegal video recording on submarine
(Reuters) – The U.S. Navy is investigating allegations of the illegal taping and distribution of videos aboard a submarine based in Georgia that was among the first to integrate women into its crew, military officials said.
L.A. man charged after son, 14, takes loaded gun from home
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – A Los Angeles man was charged with multiple criminal counts on Friday after prosecutors said he allowed his 14-year-old son to take a loaded gun from the family’s home to confront three other teenagers in the neighborhood.
Former Illinois state lawmaker pleads guilty to child porn charge
CHICAGO (Reuters) – A former Illinois state lawmaker pleaded guilty on Friday to a federal charge of transporting child pornography through computers at his office and his home, prosecutors said.
U.N. rights experts seek review of U.S. police practices
GENEVA (Reuters) – United Nations human rights experts on Friday called for a halt to racial profiling by U.S. law enforcement officers and a review of laws allowing police to use lethal force.
It’s try, try again for one U.S. Justice Department press release
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – In an unusual move, the U.S. Department of Justice late Thursday revised a nearly 10-month-old press release about the resolution of a Medicare overbilling probe, after one of the settling parties threatened to sue it for defamat…
FBI probes pedestrian death in Missouri as possible hate crime
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (Reuters) – The FBI is investigating the hit-and-run death of a 15-year-old boy struck while leaving the Somali Center of Kansas City as a possible hate crime, local authorities said on Friday.
Philadelphia treated to reruns of annual New Year’s Day Mummers Parade
PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) – (Story corrects first name in paragraph 4 to Vince)
France to pay $60 million for Holocaust victims deported by state rail firm
PARIS (Reuters) – France said on Friday it had agreed to put $60 million into a fund managed by the United States to compensate Holocaust victims deported by French state rail firm SNCF to Nazi death camps, a deal that protects it from future U.S. liti…
Suspect’s car found as manhunt continues in Florida triple murder
TAMPA, Fla. (Reuters) – A manhunt intensified on Friday for a suspect accused of killing his wife and her friend before shooting dead a pastor at a Florida church, after police said they had found the SUV the man was last seen driving but were still se…
Maryland high school evacuated after bomb threat, package found
(Reuters) – A Maryland high school was evacuated on Friday when a suspicious device was discovered outside the building after a bomb threat, a Baltimore County Police Department spokesman said.
