Texas aims to extend border protection surge with Mexico through August
AUSTIN Texas (Reuters) – Texas plans to spend nearly $90 million to extend through August 2015 a show of force along its border with Mexico that includes the deployment of up to 1,000 Texas National Guard troops, officials said on Tuesday.
FBI tracking 150 Americans who traveled to Syria, perhaps to fight
BOSTON (Reuters) – The Federal Bureau of Investigations is tracking close to 150 Americans it believes traveled to Syria in recent months, potentially to join armed groups, FBI Director James Comey said on Tuesday.
Identity thieves used college student accounts to defraud IRS: prosecutors
MIAMI (Reuters) – U.S. law-enforcement officials on Tuesday arrested 17 people accused of trying to collect almost $2 million in bogus tax refunds using college student accounts, the latest identity scam to defraud the Internal Revenue Service.
New Mexico man shoots himself after being evicted
(Reuters) – A New Mexico man shot himself in the chest after being evicted from his home by police, authorities said on Tuesday.
Indiana releases details on unidentified serial murder victim
CHICAGO (Reuters) – She was in her 30s or 40s, likely Hispanic, 5-feet 6-inches tall and has healed fractures in her nose. That is all authorities know about the woman believed to be a serial killer victim, whose skeletal remains were found a month ago…
Pennsylvania justices hear case of Catholic official in abuse case
HARRISBURG Pa. (Reuters) – Pennsylvania’s top court on Tuesday heard arguments in the case of Monsignor William Lynn, weighing whether the highest-ranking clergyman convicted in the U.S. Roman Catholic Church child sex abuse scandal should be returned …
Boeing aims to make missile defense more like space programs
EL SEGUNDO Calif. (Reuters) – Boeing Co is working with the U.S. Missile Defense Agency to address quality and reliability issues with the sharply criticized $41 billion homeland missile defense system by adopting controls from space programs, a compan…
U.S. says debt collector cheated 6,000 people in scheme
NEW YORK (Reuters) – U.S. authorities arrested seven people on Tuesday for what they said was a multimillion-dollar scam by a debt collection company that victimized more than 6,000 people, and a prosecutor said a wider crackdown was underway.
Texan arrested for trying steal police car, with detective inside
DALLAS (Reuters) – A would-be car thief was arrested on Tuesday for trying to steal an unmarked police car from the Fort Worth-area home of a police detective while he was in the vehicle, waiting for it to warm up on a cold morning.
NFL suspends Vikings’ Peterson over ‘abusive discipline’ of son
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Minnesota Vikings star running back Adrian Peterson was suspended by the National Football League without pay for at least the remainder of the 2014 season on Tuesday for committing an “incident of abusive discipline” on his 4-ye…
