U.S. teens’ use of alcohol, cigarettes at 40-year low, study finds
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Fewer U.S. teenagers are consuming alcohol or smoking cigarettes than at any time in at least 40 years, although their use of many illicit drugs remains steady, according to a national study released on Tuesday.
Chinese student pleads guilty in U.S. to arms export conspiracy
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (Reuters) – A Chinese man in the United States on a student visa pleaded guilty on Tuesday to conspiring to export illegally to China high-tech sensors used by the defense industry, a federal prosecutor in New Mexico said.
No credible sign of plot on theaters over Sony movie: U.S. officials
BOSTON (Reuters) – U.S. security agencies are investigating a threat against theaters planning to show Sony Corp’s controversial movie about an assassination of the leader of North Korea, and so far they have seen no real sign of an active plot, two U….
Woman found in Massachusetts home with dead babies charged with murder
BOSTON (Reuters) – A 31-year-old Massachusetts woman who authorities discovered living with the bodies of three dead babies tucked inside a closet in her rodent-infested house was charged on Tuesday with two counts of murder, prosecutors said.
Texas jury considers death penalty in revenge plot killing
DALLAS (Reuters) – A Texas jury that convicted a former justice of the peace of murdering a suburban Dallas prosecutor’s wife in a revenge plot began deliberations on Tuesday in the penalty phase of the trial, in which it could sentence him to death.
Convicted killer Jodi Arias was mystery witness at her sentencing retrial
PHOENIX (Reuters) – Convicted murderer Jodi Arias was the mystery witness allowed to testify in secret at her sentencing retrial in Arizona because of fears for her safety after her lawyers said she received death threats, court papers showed on Tuesda…
Lawyer in New York jail ‘soap ball’ death disputes photo evidence
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A lawyer for a former New York City jail captain asked jurors on Tuesday to discount graphic photos they were shown of a mentally ill inmate who died in 2012 after swallowing corrosive detergent known as a soap ball.
Former Miami-area mayor found guilty in mortgage fraud scheme
MIAMI (Reuters) – A federal jury in Florida found a former Miami-area mayor guilty of six counts of wire fraud on Tuesday, part of a scheme that used straw buyers and false mortgage applications to collect millions from lenders.
FBI joins probe into death of Mississippi woman burned alive
JACKSON, Miss. (Reuters) – Federal investigators have joined local and state authorities to probe the death of a 19-year-old woman burned alive, a county sheriff said on Tuesday, in a case that has stymied police and horrified residents of a small Miss…
U.S. appeals court denies prisoner’s right to tax-funded sex change
BOSTON (Reuters) – A U.S. appeals court on Tuesday overturned a lower-court decision that a Massachusetts prisoner suffering from gender identity disorder was entitled to receive a taxpayer-funded sex change operation.
