Seven New Jersey students charged over sexual assaults: New York Times
(Reuters) – Seven New Jersey high school students have been charged following a string of sexual assaults in a hazing controversy that prompted officials to cancel the remainder of the school’s football season, the New York Times reported on Friday.
Kansas Supreme Court temporarily blocks gay marriages
KANSAS CITY Kan. (Reuters) – The legal battle over gay rights in Kansas reached the state’s highest court and the federal courts on Friday hours after two women were married outside a county courthouse.
HIV-positive Alabama pastor confesses to sex with parishioners: reports
BIRMINGHAM Ala. (Reuters) – A veteran Alabama pastor who confessed to having sex with parishioners on church grounds while HIV-positive has defied attempts to remove him from his post, media reported on Friday.
Family seeks medical consensus for California girl declared brain dead
(Reuters) – A lawyer for the family of a California girl declared brain dead after complications from a tonsillectomy wants to broker a conference between several physicians who insist she exhibits signs of life and a court-appointed doctor who rejects…
Idaho and North Carolina are latest states to allow gay marriage
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – County clerks in Idaho and North Carolina began issuing their states’ first marriage licenses to gay couples on Friday after court actions that capped a week of victories for supporters of same-sex matrimony in America.
Teen gunman in 2013 Colorado school shooting was bent on revenge
DENVER (Reuters) – An 18-year-old Colorado high school student, who shot to death a classmate last year before committing suicide, had planned the attack for months and had written in a journal that he would soon “shoot up my school,” authorities said …
Prayer service held in Indiana for American held by Islamic State
PLAINFIELD Ind. (Reuters) – Family and friends of Abdul-Rahman Kassig held a prayer service on Friday for the U.S. humanitarian worker held hostage by Islamic State militants, expressing hope he will survive his ordeal and lauding his willingness to he…
Boy mauled by jaguars at Arkansas zoo in critical condition
LITTLE ROCK Ark. (Reuters) – A 3-year-old boy who was mauled by jaguars after falling into their exhibit at a zoo in Arkansas on Friday is in critical condition, a hospital spokesman said.
California woman freed after 17 years, declared innocent of murder
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – A 59-year-old California woman who spent 17 years in prison for murder was ordered freed on Friday by a judge who said she was wrongly convicted on the basis of testimony by a woman known to be a habitual liar, the Los Angeles T…
Actress Misty Upham reported missing in Washington state: police
SEATTLE/LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Actress Misty Upham, who played a housekeeper in the movie adaption of “August: Osage County,” has been missing in Washington state for six days, police said on Friday.
