U.S. appeals court voids Florida welfare drug testing law
(Reuters) – A federal appeals court on Wednesday said a Florida law requiring applicants for welfare benefits to undergo mandatory drug testing is unconstitutional, a decision that could affect efforts to enforce similar laws in other states.
Detroit public art project seeks arsonist who torched installation
DETROIT (Reuters) – An internationally acclaimed public art installation in Detroit released a video on Wednesday in an effort to find a suspect who may have suffered burns while torching the project’s “Taxi House.”
Mentally ill Texas inmate gets last-minute execution stay
AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) – A U.S. appeals court on Wednesday issued a stay of execution for a mentally ill Texas death row inmate just hours before he was set to be put to death for the murders of two people in a case that garnered international attenti…
Elderly Texas couple die side-by-side in likely murder-suicide -police
DALLAS (Reuters) – The bodies of a couple in their 90s were found with gunshot wounds to their heads in an apparent murder-suicide at a Fort Worth-area assisted living facility on Wednesday, police said.
Three women publicly detail sexual allegations against Bill Cosby
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Three women on Wednesday came together to speak publicly about their allegations that comedian Bill Cosby sexually abused and groped them decades ago, a day after Cosby was sued by a woman who said he molested her when she was a…
Connecticut protesters rally for education reform
NEW HAVEN, Conn. (Reuters) – Thousands of protesters rallied in downtown New Haven on Wednesday, urging education reform to address a performance gap between the state’s richest and poorest school districts.
Would-be California militant is schizophrenic, lawyer says
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (Reuters) – A California man accused of trying to cross into Canada to eventually join the Islamic State militant group has been diagnosed as schizophrenic, his lawyer said Wednesday.
U.S. couple leaves Qatar after convictions overturned in child death
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – A U.S. couple who were convicted and later cleared of wrongdoing in the death of their adopted African-born daughter in Qatar left the Gulf Arab state on Wednesday after a travel ban was lifted, ending a nearly two-year ordeal, …
States sue Obama administration on immigration
AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) – A coalition of 17 U.S. states sued the Obama administration on Wednesday saying it acted illegally by issuing an executive order to ease the threat of deportation for millions of immigrants who are in the country without the p…
Two charged in Maryland for alleged Johns Hopkins frat rape
(Reuters) – Two Baltimore-area men have been charged with raping a teenage girl at an off-campus Johns Hopkins University fraternity, a police spokesman said on Wednesday.
