Minneapolis mayor denies making gang sign with community organizer
(Reuters) – Minneapolis Mayor Betsy Hodges denied on Friday a report by a local television station that she flashed a gang sign with a community organizer in a photograph taken during a recent get-out-the-vote event.
California man’s body found hanging in tree three weeks later
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – A cable repairman looking to relieve himself by the side of the road in Northern California discovered the decomposing body of a man who had been hanging from a tree for about three weeks, authorities said on Friday.
Suspected Connecticut wedding crasher surrenders on theft charge
WESTPORT Conn. (Reuters) – A Connecticut man has surrendered to police on suspicion he posed as a wedding guest at an exclusive Westport hotel and stole cash and checks given to the newlyweds at the reception.
Georgia sues feds in escalating water wars in U.S. Southeast
ATLANTA (Reuters) – Atlanta’s growing thirst for water prompted Georgia officials on Friday to sue the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers over a request to tap more deeply into a lake critical to Alabama, the latest salvo in U.S. Southeast water wars also ex…
Dramatic turnover continues on Delaware Supreme Court
(Reuters) – Delaware Supreme Court Justice Henry duPont Ridgely will retire early next year, becoming the fourth justice in 15 months to retire from a court that plays a major role in shaping corporate law.
U.S. judge delays sentencing for Tsarnaev friends over Supreme Court case
BOSTON (Reuters) – A U.S. judge has delayed sentencing hearings for two friends of Boston bomb suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, citing a pending Supreme Court case that could affect what is considered “tangible evidence.”
Judge rules Missouri ban on gay marriage violates Constitution
KANSAS CITY Mo. (Reuters) – A federal judge ruled on Friday that Missouri’s ban on same-sex marriage violates the U.S. Constitution in a decision that would extend the right of gay couples to marry across the Midwestern state.
Wisconsin man stabs himself at ‘Ax Murder House’ in Iowa
(Reuters) – A Wisconsin man stabbed himself early Friday during a paranormal investigation at a southwestern Iowa house where two adults and six children were killed with an ax in 1912, authorities said.
Trial set for Arizona mom charged with leaving children in hot car
PHOENIX (Reuters) – Arizona prosecutors will go to trial to press felony child abuse charges against a woman who drew national attention when she left her two young sons in a hot car while attending a job interview, a county attorney’s spokesman said o…
New York City cuts speed limit to 25 mph to curb pedestrian deaths
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The default speed limit on the streets of New York City dropped to 25 mph from 30 mph on Friday, the centerpiece of Mayor Bill de Blasio’s plan to reduce pedestrian deaths in the country’s largest city and one of its most crowded.
