Arkansas Governor to pardon son’s drug conviction: report
(Reuters) – Outgoing Arkansas Governor Mike Beebe said on Wednesday that he will pardon his son for a felony drug conviction, local media reported.
New Orleans detectives faulted for ignoring sex crimes
(Reuters) – Hundreds of sex crime complaints to the New Orleans Police Department over a three-year period went virtually uninvestigated, city watchdog and police officials said on Wednesday.
Exclusive: Controversial U.S. energy loan program has wiped out losses
(Reuters) – The controversial government program that funded failed solar company Solyndra, and became a lighting rod in the 2012 presidential election, is officially in the black.
New York ex-cop acquitted on cannibalism plot gets supervised release
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Four months after the reversal of his conviction for plotting to kidnap and cannibalize women, a former New York City policeman on Wednesday walked out of a federal courthouse, sentenced to time already served and supervised releas…
Window washers rescued after dangling at NYC’s World Trade Center
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Two window washers trapped on a broken platform outside the 69th floor of New York’s One World Trade Center scrambled to safety through a hole cut in the glass on Wednesday after dangling for two hours alongside the city’s tallest …
FedEx workers at New Jersey facility vote against unionization
CHICAGO (Reuters) – Workers at a Newark, New Jersey, FedEx Freight facility voted against joining a union on Wednesday, in a blow to a concerted drive by the Teamsters to unionize FedEx Corp.
Colorado man’s wife, dead in fall from cliff, insured for millions
DENVER (Reuters) – A Colorado man accused of killing his wife by pushing her off a cliff two years ago stood to reap millions of dollars from life insurance benefits, prosecutors said on Wednesday, as homicide investigators delved separately into the 1…
U.S. nurses hold strikes, protests over Ebola measures
SAN FRANCISCO/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Tens of thousands of nurses across the United States staged protest rallies and strikes on Wednesday over what they say is insufficient protection for health workers dealing with patients possibly stricken with the …
Prosecutors in Jodi Arias sentencing retrial deny pornography deleted
PHOENIX (Reuters) – Arizona prosecutors on Wednesday denied claims by lawyers for convicted murderer Jodi Arias, who accused the state of deleting thousands of pornographic files from the victim’s computer.
New Jersey college buys Atlantic City’s closed Showboat casino
PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) – A college in southern New Jersey has announced plans to buy the shuttered Showboat Atlantic City casino resort from Caesars Entertainment Corp and turn the property into a branch campus.
