Police chief issues apology over slain black teen in Missouri
(Reuters) – After weeks of heavy criticism and calls for his ouster, the police chief of Ferguson, Missouri, issued a video apology on Thursday to the parents of Michael Brown, the black teenager shot to death by a white police officer last month.
University in Washington state given all-clear after bomb threat
SEATTLE (Reuters) – Police gave the all-clear on Thursday following a bomb threat that forced the evacuation of Gonzaga University in Spokane, Washington, emergency officials said.
Jury begins hearing retrial of Florida loud music shooting
JACKSONVILLE Fla. (Reuters) – A Florida jury began hearing the retrial on Thursday of Michael Dunn, a middle-aged white man charged with murder after he shot an unarmed black teenager during an argument over loud rap music.
Obama says ‘significant gap’ in global effort to fight Ebola
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama warned on Thursday that there was still a “significant gap between where we are and where we need to be” in the international response to the Ebola outbreak in West Africa and appealed for more cou…
Police probe parking meter scam in chic Colorado resort
DENVER (Reuters) – Police in the Colorado mountain resort of Aspen are investigating a parking meter scam involving pre-paid debit and credit cards that they say may have cost the city $600,000 in the past couple of years.
Woman shoots dead mother of newborn in Georgia to steal her baby: police
ATLANTA (Reuters) – A Tennessee woman who falsely claimed to be pregnant killed a Georgia mother to take that woman’s newborn baby as her own, police said on Thursday.
Third Ebola patient treated in the U.S. free from virus: doctors
CHICAGO (Reuters) – The third U.S. patient to be treated in the United States for Ebola is now free of the virus, doctors at the Nebraska Medical Center and the patient said in a news conference on Thursday.
Bad U.S. roads force “just in time” manufacturers to plan for ‘just in case’
(Reuters) – Some of America’s leanest manufacturers share a fat secret.
California police settle with woman punched by officer for $1.5 million
(Reuters) – A woman who was repeatedly punched in the head by a California Highway Patrol officer has settled her lawsuit for $1.5 million, police said on Wednesday, and the money will be used for her long-term care.
Venture capitalist Khosla loses California beach access case
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Vinod Khosla, co-founder of Sun Microsystems and now a prominent venture capitalist, lost a court battle on Wednesday against a coastal protection group that sued the billionaire for closing access to a northern California bea…
