Florida police arrest students in alleged prostitution ring
ORLANDO, Fla. (Reuters) – A Florida prostitution ring allegedly run by high school students who tried to recruit classmates with the promise of $40 and liquor was broken up after a second teenager was arrested in the underage sex scheme, police said on…
Honeymoon interrupted as disorderly Brit hauled off plane in Bermuda
HAMILTON, Bermuda (Reuters) – A British man headed to his honeymoon on a Cuba-bound flight instead found himself grounded in Bermuda after drunkenly threatening the flight crew, with his wife continuing on to Cuba without him, authorities in Bermuda sa…
U.S. judge rules Arkansas ban on same-sex marriage is unconstitutional
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (Reuters) – A U.S. district judge ruled on Tuesday that an Arkansas constitutional amendment that defines legal marriage as being only the union of one man and one woman was unconstitutional.
Judge denies Boston bomb suspect request for triple murder evidence
BOSTON (Reuters) – A federal judge on Tuesday denied a request by lawyers for accused Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev for evidence in the ongoing investigation of a 2011 Massachusetts triple murder, saying the information wouldn’t help their c…
Oklahoma woman shot and killed by three-year-old son: police
OKLAHOMA CITY (Reuters) – An Oklahoma woman was fatally shot in the head by her 3-year-old son who came across a handgun in their Tulsa home, police said on Tuesday.
Explosion injures five Memphis utility workers, three critically
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (Reuters) – An explosion injured five Memphis utility workers, three of them critically, on Tuesday while they were working on an underground gas line, fire officials said.
Vote tally too close, recount ordered on Oregon GMO labeling
(Reuters) – The final vote tally on an Oregon ballot measure that would require labeling of foods made with genetically modified ingredients was so close that state officials are doing a recount, a spokesman for the state said on Tuesday.
FBI raids Puerto Rico sewer authority PRASA
NEW YORK/SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (Reuters) – The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation launched a surprise raid at Puerto Rico’s Aqueduct and Sewer Authority (PRASA) on Tuesday in a probe the head of the commonwealth agency said was focused on a single ca…
Two Minneapolis men charged with conspiring to support Islamic State
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Federal prosecutors on Tuesday charged two Minnesota men with supporting Islamic State, the militant group that has captured swaths of territory in Syria and Iraq and carried out gruesome executions of civilians and foreigners.
Independent investigator named for alleged UVA frat gang rape
RICHMOND, Va. (Reuters) – An independent investigator will examine allegations of a 2012 gang rape at a University of Virginia fraternity house that was described in harrowing detail in Rolling Stone magazine, the state’s attorney general said on Tuesd…
