Militant in Syria beheading videos identified: FBI
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A masked Islamic State militant seen wielding a knife in videos at the beheading of two Americans has been identified, FBI Director James Comey said on Thursday, but he declined to give the person’s name or nationality.
U.S. SEC wins hundreds of millions in Wyly fraud case
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Texas tycoon Sam Wyly and his late brother Charles’ estate must pay hundreds of millions of dollars to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for a fraudulent offshore scheme, a U.S. judge said on Thursday, one of the largest …
Fewer New York state municipalities in fiscal stress: study
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The number of counties, cities, towns and villages in New York state experiencing fiscal stress fell to 35 in 2013 compared with 40 during the previous year, a report by the state’s top financial watchdog showed on Thursday.
GM ignition-switch victims’ families to accept compensation offer: lawyer
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The families of two victims killed in a General Motors Co vehicle with a faulty ignition switch will accept offers from a program set up to provide compensation for crash injuries and deaths, a lawyer for the family said on Thursda…
NYC boosted subway security after Iraq warning: police commissioner
(Reuters) – New York City Police Commissioner William Bratton said on Thursday that the department boosted police presence on subways and city streets after the Iraqi prime minister’s warning of a potential threat to transit systems from Islamist milit…
Magnitude 6.2 quake hits Alaska near Anchorage, no immediate damage reported
JUNEAU Alaska (Reuters) – A 6.2 magnitude earthquake struck Alaska on Thursday near Anchorage, but the U.S. Geological Survey said there was little likelihood of casualties or severe damage from shaking generated by the deeply rooted tremor.
Four Memphis cops suspended over porta-potty arrest: report
NASHVILLE (Reuters) – Four Memphis police officers have been suspended with pay for tipping over a portable toilet where a suspect had tried to hide, after a video of the Sept. 19 arrest circulated widely on social media, the Commercial Appeal newspape…
Suspect in Virginia student abduction held without bond in Texas
GALVESTON Texas (Reuters) – A man suspected of abducting a University of Virginia student will be held without bond in Texas pending his extradition to Virginia, a Texas county judge ruled on Thursday.
Serial killer sentenced to life in prison for three Los Angeles stranglings
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – A 74-year-old career criminal convicted in the strangling deaths of three women in Los Angeles was sentenced on Thursday to life in prison without the possibility of parole for the crimes committed in the 1980s, prosecutors said…
Collector auctions rifle purportedly used in 1966 Texas tower killings
DALLAS (Reuters) – A Dallas gun collector is selling what he said is a rifle used in the sniper attack by ex-Marine Charles Whitman, who perched himself atop the University of Texas clock tower in a 1966 shooting spree that killed 16 people and wounded…
