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…
Obama’s year-end message to Americans: I’m not a lame duck
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – If U.S. President Barack Obama is feeling the pain from a rough year at the office, he did a great job of covering it up on Friday.
Missouri school regrets swapping blind student’s cane for foam tube
(Reuters) – A Missouri school district has apologized for taking a cane away from a blind student and forcing him to use a foam tube called a pool noodle, the boy’s father said on Friday.
NY woman who reported kidnap charged with murdering cousin
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A 19-year-old woman was arrested for the murder of her 5-year-old cousin in upstate New York on Friday, less than a day after she reported what police said was a concocted story about two men in ski masks kidnapping the boy, local …
Ferguson wants peace instead of protests, but anger still simmers
FERGUSON, Mo (Reuters) – It is hard to find much healing in Ferguson, Missouri.
Mother arrested for murder after children found dead in Australian home
SYDNEY (Reuters) – The 37-year-old mother of most of the eight children found dead in a mass stabbing in Australia’s tropical northern city of Cairns has been arrested for murder, police said on Saturday.
Friend of accused Boston bomber pleads guilty to gun, drug charges
BOSTON (Reuters) – A high school friend of the accused Boston Marathon bombers pleaded guilty on Friday to charges including having possessed a gun that prosecutors contend the suspects used to shoot dead a university police officer as they tried to fl…
Obama says U.S. blacks better off overall than when he began presidency
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama said on Friday that U.S. blacks are better off now than they were when he began his presidency in 2009, but that the gap between blacks and whites remains.
Overseas tip led FBI to recover stolen art worth up to $24 million
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – An overseas tip investigators received six years after one of the biggest art heists in Los Angeles led to the return of nine stolen paintings, including works by Marc Chagall and Diego Rivera, collectively worth as much as $24 …
Influential Rabbi Harold Schulweis dies at 89 in California
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Rabbi Harold Schulweis, a tireless innovator who implored followers to fight against genocide and see Judaism as a religion with universal significance, has died at age 89 at his Los Angeles home, his synagogue said in a stateme…
