Florida man executed for killing stepdaughter in 1992
TALLAHASSEE Fla. (Reuters) – A man convicted of fatally shooting his sleeping wife, then raping and murdering her 10-year-old daughter, was executed by lethal injection Thursday evening at Florida State Prison after spending almost half his life on dea…
U.S. internal review cites Secret Service failures in White House intrusion
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – An intruder was able to scale the White House fence and enter the executive mansion in September because of major Secret Service failures including an agent who was distracted by a personal cellphone call, according to an interna…
Boston Scientific ordered to pay $26.7 million over mesh devices
MIAMI/NEW YORK (Reuters) – Boston Scientific Corp was ordered Thursday to pay four women a total of $26.7 million after it was found liable for selling faulty transvaginal mesh devices, following one of the first federal trials resulting from thousands…
New Jersey state Assembly approves assisted suicide bill
(Reuters) – The New Jersey state Assembly on Thursday passed a measure that would allow doctors to prescribe life-ending drugs to terminally ill patients, modeled after the Oregon law that allowed a 29-year-old woman suffering from brain cancer to end …
Prosecutors say vampire-fanged Utah trucker had more victims
(Reuters) – A Utah truck driver who wore vampire-fang dentures and is charged with sexually abusing and beating two women who he held captive in his vehicle as he traveled the country had four more victims, federal prosecutors have said.
Sniper shot Pennsylvania troopers to ‘wake people up’: police
EAST STROUDSBURG Pa. (Reuters) – A survivalist charged with shooting two Pennsylvania state troopers, one of them fatally, who then eluded a 48-day manhunt by hiding in the woods told police after his capture that he ambushed the men because he “wanted…
College football player in Oregon charged with murder
(Reuters) – A Willamette University football player from California has been charged with murder after a 66-year-old man was found dead near an intersection in Salem, Oregon, prosecutors said on Thursday.
Two New York men are paid $9 million in wrongful conviction case
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Two men who spent 16 years in prison for a New York City double murder they did not commit accepted a $9 million settlement on Thursday for their wrongful convictions.
U.S. charges 12 family members with defrauding banks of $20 million
NEW YORK N.Y. (Reuters) – A dozen members of a Brooklyn family were among 15 people charged in New York federal court Thursday with being part of a conspiracy to inflate their incomes to obtain $20 million in real estate loans and understate it to the …
Halliburton worker killed in Colorado fracking accident
DENVER (Reuters) – An accident at a fracking site in Colorado killed one Halliburton Co worker and seriously injured two on Thursday as they tried to thaw a high-pressure water line that had frozen in record-breaking cold conditions, the company said.
