Ex-NYC councilman loses bid for new corruption trial
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Former New York City Councilman Larry Seabrook lost a bid for a new trial on Friday after a federal judge rejected his claim that his brother and aide were excluded from watching jury selection.
Jerry Sandusky’s pension appeal denied but lawyer vows to keep fighting
HARRISBURG, Pa. (Reuters) – Jerry Sandusky, the former Penn State assistant football coach sentenced to decades in prison for sexually molesting boys, has lost his first appeal of a decision to strip him of his $4,900 monthly pension, but his lawyer sa…
Oklahoma to again employ injection mix used in flawed execution
OKLAHOMA CITY (Reuters) – Oklahoma plans to use the same lethal injection drug combination it employed during a botched execution in April, Department of Corrections officials told a federal court hearing arguments on whether to halt death sentences in the state from being carried out.
Deportations from U.S. decline in fiscal 2014: DHS report
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement deported fewer undocumented immigrants in fiscal year 2014, the Department of Homeland Security said on Friday in a report that also showed a decline in the number coming from Mexico.
Child is fourth to die from California crash, driver charged
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – A 6-year-old boy has become the fourth person to die from a crash earlier this week in which a driver plowed into pedestrians leaving a church in Southern California, and the driver was charged on Friday, officials said.
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.
