Girl who fatally shot Arizona gun instructor said weapon was too powerful
PHOENIX (Reuters) – A 9-year-old girl who fatally shot a gun range instructor with an Uzi submachine gun last week told her mother immediately afterward that the weapon was too much for her to handle and had hurt her shoulder, said a sheriff’s report r…
California boy, 7, hurt at firing range owned by his family
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – A 7-year-old boy was wounded at a private firing range at his family’s property in Northern California while shooting targets with his father and had to be airlifted to a hospital, police said on Tuesday.
Three killed, two injured in Kansas City shooting
KANSAS CITY Mo. (Reuters) – Three people were killed and two more critically injured in a shooting spree in a south Kansas City neighborhood on Tuesday afternoon, police said.
Suspect in Massachusetts child-porn bust had arsenal, ‘murder book’: FBI
BOSTON (Reuters) – A Massachusetts man arrested on Tuesday and charged with trafficking in child pornography also had a small arsenal of guns, explosives and a hand-written “Mass Murder Book,” according to federal prosecutors.
Ex-owner of Poconos resort ordered to pay back former employee pensions
SCRANTON Pa. (Reuters) – A federal judge on Tuesday ordered a former honeymoon resort owner in Pennsylvania’s Pocono Mountains to pay more than $2 million for illegally dipping into his employees’ pensions.
Appeals court grills U.S. lawyer on NSA phone collection
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A U.S. appeals court on Tuesday grilled an Obama administration lawyer about the legality of the continuing collection of millions of Americans’ phone records, adding fuel to a debate that has raged since the spy program was reveal…
U.S. Navy delays start of bidding for unmanned carrier-based drone
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Navy, concerned about the affordability of a new carrier-based unmanned spy plane, has delayed this month’s planned kickoff of the competition to build it, officials said on Tuesday.
Arizona death row inmate charged with murder in 1991 Utah killing
SALT LAKE CITY (Reuters) – An Arizona death row inmate is facing a Utah murder charge after investigators used fingerprints found on Lego toys and DNA evidence to link him to a 23-year-old cold-case homicide, authorities said on Tuesday.
Florida judge in Casey Anthony trial returns to private practice
ORLANDO Fla (Reuters) – The Florida judge who presided over the Casey Anthony murder trial in 2011 started a new job as a personal injury lawyer on Tuesday, two days after he retired from the bench.
South Carolina boy sues over makeup removal for driver’s license photo
CHARLESTON S.C. (Reuters) – The mother of a South Carolina teenager who says he was ordered to remove his makeup for his driver’s license photograph filed suit on Tuesday against the state’s Department of Motor Vehicles on civil rights grounds. The lawsuit, filed on behalf of Chase Culpepper, 16, who regularly wears makeup and women’s clothing, pits transgender rights against the state’s ability to determine when a person’s appearance has been altered to the point of misrepresentation in an o
