One hiker found dead, another injured in Colorado peaks
DENVER (Reuters) – Rescuers in Colorado found one hiker dead and another injured on Friday following a two-day search for the missing men in the mountains above the resort town of Aspen, authorities said.
Haitian man faces U.S. charges over reclining airline seat squabble
BOSTON (Reuters) – A Haitian man who authorities say got into a heated dispute on a flight bound from Miami to Paris over a reclining seat has been charged with assaulting a flight attendant, U.S. prosecutors in Boston said on Friday.
Co-founder of indicted money exchange extradited to U.S.
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Spanish authorities have extradited to the United States a co-founder of the digital currency exchange Liberty Reserve to face charges that his creation was an unlawful money-laundering operation, U.S. prosecutors said on Friday.
Alaska parents find son alive after police notify wrong family
(Reuters) – An Alaska couple, who had been told by police that their 29-year-old son had been killed in a car crash, were overcome with joy just hours later when they discovered him alive and well at his home in Anchorage, officials and media said on F…
Senator Walsh of Montana stripped of degree for plagiarism
(Reuters) – The U.S. Army War College has revoked the master’s degree of U.S. Senator John Walsh of Montana, the result of a plagiarism scandal that prompted him in August to abandon his election bid, both Walsh and the college said on Friday.
Equatorial Guinea VP loses Michael Jackson statues in U.S. settlement
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A federal judge in California announced a $30 million settlement on Friday between the United States and a vice president of Equatorial Guinea that requires him to forfeit his U.S. assets, including a collection of six life-sized…
Kansas attorney general seeks to block gay marriages
KANSAS CITY Kan. (Reuters) – The Kansas attorney general on Friday asked the state Supreme Court to block same-sex marriage licenses, filing the petition hours after two women were married outside a county courthouse.
Virginia tells agencies to clear way for adoptions by gay couples
RICHMOND Va. (Reuters) – Virginia same-sex couples can now legally adopt children and also become foster parents, the Virginia Department of Social Services said in a bulletin on Friday to its local offices across the state.
Case against Detroit policeman who shot child ends in second mistrial
DETROIT (Reuters) – A judge declared a second mistrial on Friday in the case of a Detroit police officer who fatally shot a sleeping girl during a raid in 2010, after a jury was unable to reach a verdict.
New York man shot 15 minutes after release from prison
NEW YORK (Reuters) – After spending 15 years in prison, a New York man was shot within minutes of his release after he got into a car not knowing that another ex-convict with a gun and a grudge was hiding in the trunk, state police said on Friday.
