Obama seeks support for immigration plan, blasts Boehner
LAS VEGAS (Reuters) – President Barack Obama defended his decision to bypass Congress and overhaul U.S. immigration policy on his own on Friday, saying he was forced to act because House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner would not let legislation…
Four dead in murder-suicide on South Dakota reservation, police say
SEATTLE (Reuters) – A South Dakota man shot and killed three people and critically wounded a fourth person before taking his own life at a residence on a Native American reservation, law enforcement officials said Saturday.
FBI arrests two would-be Ferguson bomb suspects: law enforcement source
FERGUSON Mo. (Reuters) – Two men suspected of buying explosives they planned to detonate during protests in Ferguson, Missouri, once a grand jury decides the Michael Brown case, were arrested on Friday and charged with federal firearms offenses, a law …
Mother’s death leads NFL player to fight domestic abuse
(Reuters) – Pittsburgh Steelers cornerback William Gay remembers arriving at the hospital as a confused 7-year-old trying to understand why members of his family were sobbing uncontrollably.
Four killed, child injured in shooting at Cleveland home
(Reuters) – Two men and two women were killed, and a 10-year-old girl was injured in a shooting inside a Cleveland, Ohio home on Friday, officials said.
Officials prepare for Ferguson grand jury decision, urge calm
FERGUSON Mo. (Reuters) – Police and protest organizers laid the groundwork on Friday for steps to avert street violence once a St. Louis-area grand jury decides whether to indict the white police officer who fatally shot unarmed black teenager Michael …
Seattle police body cameras plan revived by deal with anonymous programmer
SEATTLE (Reuters) – A Seattle police plan to outfit officers with body cameras was back on for early December after the agency struck an unusual deal with an anonymous programmer whose massive public-records requests threatened to cripple the program, …
Louisiana AG disagrees with ruling that would free ‘Angola Three’ inmate
NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) – Louisiana’s attorney general disagreed on Friday with a federal court ruling overturning the conviction of the last of the prisoners known as the “Angola Three,” who has spent 42 years in solitary confinement.
Review set for University of Virginia policy after campus rape report
(Reuters) – An independent counsel will review the University of Virginia’s sexual violence policies after a Rolling Stone story on an alleged gang rape at a fraternity, state Attorney General Mark Herring said on Friday.
Connecticut man pleads not guilty in son’s death in hot car
MILFORD Conn. (Reuters) – A Connecticut man pleaded not guilty on Friday to a charge of criminally negligent homicide in the death of his 15-month-old son, who died on a hot summer day after the father left him in the back seat of his car and went into…
