S&P cuts Pennsylvania GO debt rating to ‘AA-minus’
(Reuters) – Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services on Thursday cut its rating on Pennsylvania’s GO debt outstanding to ‘AA-minus’ from ‘AA’, citing weakened financial position and increased expenditure pressures. S&P’s outlook is stable.
Uber driver arrested in Florida, accused of fondling female passenger
ORLANDO Fla. (Reuters) – A Florida driver for the online for-hire car service Uber faces battery charges after a female passenger said he fondled her, according to a police report released on Thursday.
Mentally ill North Carolina prisoner died of dehydration during transfer
WINSTON-SALEM N.C. (Reuters) – A mentally ill North Carolina inmate died from dehydration during a prison transfer last spring, according to an autopsy report released on Thursday about an incident that led to several prison employees losing their jobs…
Utah opens criminal probe into Stericycle medical waste incinerator
(Reuters) – Utah Governor Gary Herbert asked the state’s attorney general on Thursday to open a criminal probe into allegations of misconduct at a medical waste incinerator that environmental activists have accused of polluting the air.
Ex-Seattle coach accused of filming scantily clad girls on trips
SEATTLE (Reuters) – A former Seattle private school coach has been indicted on child pornography related charges over accusations he secretly filmed teenage girls changing clothes or exiting the shower on annual cross-border ski trips, a U.S. Attorney’…
One killed in incident at Oklahoma food distribution center: police
(Reuters) – One woman has been killed and a man transported to the hospital with multiple gunshot wounds on Thursday in what police said was a fight at a Moore, Oklahoma, food distribution center.
Connecticut prosecutors seek new hearing for man convicted of 2007 triple murder
MILFORD Conn. (Reuters) – Connecticut prosecutors are calling for the state Superior Court to hold a hearing to determine if a man sentenced to death for killing a woman and her two daughters in a 2007 home invasion is entitled to a new trial.
Remains of two bodies identified at notorious Florida boys’ school
TAMPA Fla. (Reuters) – Two adolescent boys were identified on Thursday from among the remains exhumed from a notorious Florida reform school, where they were buried in unmarked graves over a half century ago, researchers said.
Police probe threats to Colorado school board member’s child
DENVER (Reuters) – Police in Colorado are investigating alleged threats made to a school board member’s child in the state’s second-largest school district, where hundreds of students protested this week over proposed curriculum changes, authorities sa…
ACLU sues over immigrant’s detention under Arizona immigration law
PHOENIX (Reuters) – A civil rights group filed a federal lawsuit on Thursday alleging sheriff’s deputies unlawfully arrested and detained an immigrant following a 2012 traffic stop under Arizona’s controversial anti-immigration law.
