Self-defense in Florida loud music shooting disputed as trial closes
JACKSONVILLE Fla. (Reuters) – A middle-aged white man on trial for murder in the shooting death of a black teenager during a dispute about loud music told a Florida jury on Tuesday he thought his life was in danger and showed little remorse as he descr…
Brooklyn science teacher charged with sexually abusing students
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A New York City high school science teacher who was already facing charges of sending a sexually explicit photograph to a student was arrested at court on Tuesday on new charges of sexually abusing six other teenage girls, prosecut…
Reward offered for ‘AK-47 Bandit’ over U.S. bank robberies
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Authorities offered a $100,000 reward on Tuesday for the so-called “AK-47 Bandit,” who carried an assault rifle in a string of bank robberies across the U.S. West, in one case opening fire and seriously wounding a police officer…
Florida to mail out $200 million in college refunds, week before election
TALLAHASSEE Fla. (Reuters) – Just before Election Day, thousands of Florida families who participate in prepaid college savings plans will receive refunds, or major cuts in their monthly payments, and Governor Rick Scott is not shy about taking credit …
Pipe bombs found by police tracking Pennsylvania ambush suspect
BLOOMING GROVE Pa. (Reuters) – A pair of pipe bombs was discovered by teams searching the Pocono Mountains for Eric Frein, the survivalist suspected in an ambush of two Pennsylvania state troopers that killed one of them, a police official said on Tues…
U.S. home-schooling group criticizes Sandy Hook panel report
MILFORD Conn. (Reuters) – A U.S. home-schooling advocacy group on Tuesday criticized a proposal for closer monitoring of home-schooled students, likely to be made by a Connecticut panel charged with improving school safety following the 2012 Newtown ma…
Judge accepts guilty plea in U.S. embassy bombing case
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A U.S. judge on Tuesday accepted the guilty plea of an Egyptian man charged in connection with the deadly 1998 bombings of two U.S. embassies in Africa, 10 days after expressing concern that prosecutors had given him too lenient a …
Student injured in shooting at Kentucky high school: officials
LOUISVILLE Ky. (Reuters) – A student was injured on Tuesday in a shooting at a Louisville, Kentucky, high school, and police have arrested a suspect, officials said.
Olympic swimming champ Phelps arrested on drunken driving charge
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – American swimmer Michael Phelps, the most decorated Olympian of all time, was arrested for drunken driving early on Tuesday after speeding and then crossing the double-lane lines inside a Baltimore tunnel, police said.
U.S. restaurant patrons support minimum wage hike: survey
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – While the U.S. restaurant industry fights national and state efforts to increase the minimum wage, a new survey released on Tuesday showed that 83 percent of restaurant patrons support raising it and adjusting it annually for in…
