NYC police say hatchet attack by Islam convert was terrorism
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The hatchet-wielding man who wounded two New York City police officers, one of them critically, was a self-radicalized convert to Islam who is believed to have acted alone in what law enforcement officials on Friday called a terror…
Pennsylvania man faces possible life in prison for child porn
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A Pennsylvania man faces life in prison for child pornography he left on a computer tablet he sold at a Christmas flea market, according to authorities.
Alabama attorneys complain of harassment after $460,000 settlement
BIRMINGHAM Ala. (Reuters) – Lawyers for a man who received a $460,000 settlement after suing the city of Birmingham for police brutality said on Friday they had received harassing emails and phone calls after it was disclosed they would pocket all but …
Heathcare worker at Newark airport to be quarantined on Ebola fears
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A healthcare worker who had been treating patients in West Africa was detained at Newark Liberty International Airport and will be quarantined, in line with a new policy aimed at reducing risk from the Ebola virus, New Jersey Gover…
Court allows Oklahoma to delay executions due to lack of drugs
OKLAHOMA CITY (Reuters) – An Oklahoma court accepted a motion from the state on Friday to delay three planned executions so prison authorities can obtain a fresh batch of lethal injection drugs and implement new protocols drawn up after a troubled exec…
U.S. considering quarantine for returning Ebola health workers: CDC
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Obama administration is considering quarantining healthcare workers returning to the United States from the Ebola hot zone of West Africa, after a New York doctor who treated Ebola patients there tested positive for the virus…
Obama gives big hug to U.S. nurse who survived Ebola
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama gave a big hug on Friday to Nina Pham, the Dallas nurse who survived a bout with Ebola.
Kansas court upholds conviction in abortion doctor’s murder
KANSAS CITY Kan. (Reuters) – The Kansas Supreme Court on Friday upheld a man’s conviction in the 2009 slaying of a late-term abortion doctor but sent the case back to a lower court for resentencing.
Trove of Flight 93 personal items destroyed in 9/11 memorial fire
(Reuters) – A fire near the western Pennsylvania memorial for a hijacked United flight that crashed on Sept. 11, 2001, destroyed photographs, ID cards and other personal mementos of the victims recovered from the site, officials said on Friday.
Texas man charged with raping two children, infecting them with HIV
AUSTIN Texas (Reuters) – A Houston man has been arrested on charges of sexually assaulting two girls, ages 14 and 2, and infecting them with sexually transmitted diseases including HIV, police said on Friday.
