Remains of two infants found in California storage locker
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (Reuters) – Officials in northern California have asked for help finding information about the grisly discovery of two infants or fetuses in an abandoned storage unit.
U.S. Supreme Court allows gay marriage to proceed in Florida next month
TAMPA, Fla. (Reuters) – Gay marriages may proceed in Florida next month after the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday declined to extend a stay requested by state officials seeking to defend the state’s ban on same-sex marriages.
Kentucky county passes ordinance that hits at power of unions
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (Reuters) – Warren County, Kentucky passed a right-to-work ordinance on Friday, making the fifth most-populous county the first in the state to pass legislation prohibiting unions from requiring members to pay dues in exchange for repre…
Former Florida mayor sentenced to prison for secret consulting job
MIAMI (Reuters) – A south Florida mayor was sentenced to 22 months in prison on Friday after being found guilty of corruption tied to his lobbying work for a secret consulting job while in office.
Ex-NYC councilman loses bid for new corruption trial
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Former New York City Councilman Larry Seabrook lost a bid for a new trial on Friday after a federal judge rejected his claim that his brother and aide were excluded from watching jury selection.
Jerry Sandusky’s pension appeal denied but lawyer vows to keep fighting
HARRISBURG, Pa. (Reuters) – Jerry Sandusky, the former Penn State assistant football coach sentenced to decades in prison for sexually molesting boys, has lost his first appeal of a decision to strip him of his $4,900 monthly pension, but his lawyer sa…
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…
