New Orleans political consultant victim of possible fire bombing
NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) – A fire that badly damaged the home of a New Orleans political consultant on Thursday appears to have been set deliberately, authorities said, raising concerns it may have been a politically motivated attack.
Philadelphia abduction suspect accused of violent rape in Virginia
(Reuters) – A 37-year-old man accused of abducting a woman from a Philadelphia sidewalk this week in a dramatic act caught on surveillance video faces attempted murder and rape charges for a separate incident in Virginia, police said on Thursday.
Former Illinois congressman Evans dies at 63
(Reuters) – Former Illinois congressman Lane Evans, a champion for U.S. veterans who had suffered with Parkinson’s disease for years, died late on Wednesday in East Moline, Illinois, his guardian said. He was 63.
For-profit colleges sue U.S. Education Department over crackdown
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A group representing for-profit colleges on Thursday filed a lawsuit against the Obama administration’s new gainful employment rules that aim to protect students from lackluster degrees and huge debt loads.
Three charged in U.S. presidential helicopter fraud case
CHARLESTON S.C. (Reuters) – A federal grand jury has indicted three men in a fraud scheme involving the helicopters used to transport the U.S. president and vice president, federal prosecutors said on Thursday.
Trial of Pittsburgh researcher accused of poisoning wife goes to jury
PITTSBURGH (Reuters) – The jury in the trial of a University of Pittsburgh medical researcher accused of the 2013 murder of his neurologist wife began deliberating on Thursday after prosecutors told them that Robert Ferrante fed cyanide to Autumn Klein…
Remains found in California desert those of missing film executive
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Human remains found by hikers in a shallow grave in the desert east of Los Angeles have been identified as those of a Hollywood studio executive who vanished in 2012 and was believed murdered, police said on Thursday.
Appeals court upholds gay marriage bans, reversing trend
(Reuters) – A federal appeals court on Thursday upheld gay marriage bans in Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio and Tennessee, reversing the trend in federal courts to strike down such bans and piling pressure on the Supreme Court to take up the matter.
New York City Sandy-hit hospitals to be reimbursed with FEMA funds
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A number of New York City public hospitals impacted by 2012’s Superstorm Sandy will be reimbursed with at least $1.6 billion paid by the Federal Emergency Management Agency program, Mayor Bill de Blasio said on Thursday.
Brother of NFL’s Marshall nabbed in Colorado for ‘crime spree’: media
DENVER (Reuters) – A younger brother of Chicago Bears wide receiver and ex-Denver Bronco Brandon Marshall has been arrested in Colorado after what one local television channel described as a crime spree, online jail records showed on Thursday.
