California man charged with vehicular manslaughter in Halloween hit-and-run
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – A man who prosecutors say struck and killed three 13-year-old California girls as they were trick-or-treating on Halloween and then fled in his damaged sport utility vehicle was charged on Tuesday with vehicular manslaughter and…
Russian charged in Afghan attack makes U.S. court appearance
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A former Russian army officer facing terrorism charges for a 2009 attack on U.S. and Afghan forces made an initial appearance in federal court on Tuesday, the first military detainee from Afghanistan to appear in a U.S. federal c…
New York woman accused of plotting death of daughter’s ex-boyfriend
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A New York woman is facing charges of trying to hire a hit man to kill her daughter’s ex-boyfriend and feed his body to alligators, according to police and jail officials.
Minnesota Vikings’ Peterson reaches plea deal to avoid jail
AUSTIN Texas (Reuters) – Minnesota Vikings running back Adrian Peterson reached a plea deal on Tuesday to charges of abusing his 4-year-old son that would see the former NFL most valuable player avoid any jail time.
Barn fire kills 20,000 young chickens near Lebanon, Pennsylvania
HARRISBURG Pa. (Reuters) – An intense fire destroyed a Pennsylvania poultry barn on Tuesday, killing 20,000 young chickens less than two years after another barn blaze at the same farm incinerated 40,000 hatchlings.
U.S. appeals court grills opponents of NSA phone data collection
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A U.S. appeals court on Tuesday grilled opponents of the U.S. government program that collects millions of Americans’ phone records, casting doubt on whether it would uphold a lower court ruling that found the program was likely …
U.S. justices sympathetic to whistleblower over air marshal leak
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Supreme Court justices on Tuesday appeared to be leaning toward ruling that a former air marshal can seek whistleblower protections for disclosing sensitive information to the news media about the absence of security officer…
Oklahoma Supreme Court halts certain abortion restrictions
OKLAHOMA CITY (Reuters) – The Oklahoma Supreme Court on Tuesday halted the implementation of new abortion restrictions in the state that supporters said are aimed at protecting women’s health and critics said are really measures designed to shutter cli…
Vatican official condemns Maynard assisted suicide case in U.S.
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – A Vatican bioethics official on Tuesday condemned the death by assisted suicide of American Brittany Maynard, a terminally ill 29-year-old who ended her life over the weekend, as an undignified “absurdity”.
Maryland teen charged as adult in alleged school attack plan
(Reuters) – A 16-year-old Maryland boy who police allege planned to kill people at his school in the Baltimore suburbs with a gun and bombs has been charged as an adult, authorities said.
