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…
Judge in Colorado cinema rampage case allows second sanity exam at trial
DENVER (Reuters) – A judge overseeing the Colorado theater massacre case rejected a defense motion on Friday to have a second sanity examination administered to accused gunman James Holmes barred from his upcoming murder trial, court records show.
Lawyer for bin Laden son-in-law gets 1-1/2 years prison in tax case
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A prominent New York defense lawyer who recently represented the son-in-law of Osama bin Laden was sentenced on Friday to 1-1/2 years in prison after pleading guilty to tax offenses.
Newtown massacre shooter indulged dark obsessions online, report says
MILFORD Conn. (Reuters) – By the time Adam Lanza massacred 26 children and adults at a Connecticut school two years ago, he was living in nearly complete isolation, communicating with no one except an online network of people obsessed with mass murder,…
Officials make preparations for Ferguson grand jury decision
FERGUSON Mo. (Reuters) – Prosecutors made preparations to announce the eventual decision by a grand jury on whether to charge a white police officer who shot dead an unarmed black teenager and some local schools said on Friday they would close next wee…
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…
