Ex-driver for Washington mayor pleads guilty to campaign violations
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The former driver for Washington Mayor Vincent Gray pleaded guilty on Friday to campaign finance violations, prosecutors said, bringing a long-running federal investigation closer to the outgoing mayor.
Oklahoma to halt execution until new protocols in place: governor
OKLAHOMA CITY (Reuters) – Oklahoma will put future executions on hold until new procedures are in place as recommended in a report about a troubled execution that exposed shortcomings in the death chamber, officials said on Friday.
Chicago church laments after falling gargoyle kills woman
CHICAGO (Reuters) – A historic Chicago church apologized on Friday, a day after pieces of a gargoyle fell off the building’s facade and killed a mother-of-two who was walking along the street.
Autopsy shows missing Arizona girl was strangled to death
PHOENIX (Reuters) – An 8-year-old girl who vanished from her bedroom and whose body was found in a shallow grave near her home in northwest Arizona was strangled to death, police said on Friday.
U.S. air controllers track plane with unresponsive pilot off Florida
MIAMI (Reuters) – U.S. air traffic controllers tracked a plane with an unresponsive pilot off the Florida coast on Friday, apparently headed towards Cuba.
U.S. missionary with Ebola arrives at Nebraska hospital
CHICAGO (Reuters) – The third U.S. medical missionary to become infected with the Ebola virus was wheeled on a gurney into the Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha for treatment after being flown there from West Africa, a spokeswoman for the medical center…
Jury hits Ethicon with $3.25 million verdict in mesh case
(Reuters) – A federal jury in West Virginia on Friday awarded a woman $3.27 million in one of 33,000 lawsuits that accuse Johnson & Johnson’s Ethicon Inc unit of selling defective transvaginal mesh devices.
Jury hits Ethicon with $3.25 million verdict in mesh case
(Reuters) – A federal jury in West Virginia on Friday awarded a woman $3.27 million in one of 33,000 lawsuits that accuse Johnson & Johnson’s Ethicon Inc unit of selling defective transvaginal mesh devices.
Exercise rider killed in training accident at Belmont Park
(Reuters) – An exercise rider was killed during training on Friday morning in an accident at Belmont Park in New York, officials said.
Fewer air travelers have long waits at U.S. security checkpoints
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The number of travelers in the United States who waited 20 minutes or more at an airport security checkpoint this summer dropped by 64 percent since last year, federal government figures show.
