Autopsy of slain Missouri teen shows close-range gunshot
(Reuters) – The official autopsy on an unarmed black teenager whose killing by a white police officer in August set off protests in Ferguson, Missouri, suggests he sustained a gunshot wound to the hand from close range, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch repo…
Man arrested after jumping White House fence, causing lockdown
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A man jumped the White House fence on Wednesday evening and was attacked by Secret Service dogs before being arrested, a Secret Service spokesman said.
Alabama man gets $1,000 in police settlement, his lawyers get $459,000
BIRMINGHAM Ala. (Reuters) – An Alabama man who sued over being hit and kicked by police after leading them on a high-speed chase will get $1,000 in a settlement with the city of Birmingham, while his attorneys will take in $459,000, officials said Wedn…
Florida men held three years in Mexico on drug charges return to U.S.
MIAMI (Reuters) – Two Florida boaters jailed in Mexico for three years after being arrested with $950,000 in cash returned to the United States on Wednesday, landing in Miami after they were exonerated of money-laundering and drug-trafficking charges, …
Suspended South Carolina speaker to plead guilty to ethics charges: report
CHARLESTON S.C. (Reuters) – Suspended South Carolina House of Representatives Speaker Bobby Harrell is expected to plead guilty to criminal ethics charges related to misuse of campaign money and misconduct in office, a local newspaper reported on Wedne…
Congressman should have been ‘more sensitive’ in suicide remarks: spokesman
JUNEAU (Reuters) – A U.S. congressman should have taken a more “sensitive approach” when talking about teen suicide to a group of Alaska high school students he was addressing after a classmate recently took his own life, a spokesman said on Wednesday….
Man jumps White House fence, causes lockdown
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A man jumped the White House fence on Wednesday and was attacked by Secret Service dogs, a Secret Service spokesman said.
UAW eyes bargaining rights at VW Tennessee plant within a year
DETROIT (Reuters) – The United Auto Workers hopes to be recognized as the exclusive bargaining agent for workers at a Volkswagen AG assembly plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee within a year, the union’s President Dennis Williams said on Wednesday.
Two dead in murder-suicide at Houston hospital: police say
HOUSTON (Reuters) – Two health workers died on Wednesday in an apparent murder-suicide at the out-patient pharmacy of a major Houston hospital, police said.
Six migrants detained for trying to sneak into U.S. in fuel tank
SAN ANTONIO (Reuters) – Six immigrants from Mexico and Central America have been taken into custody on suspicion of trying to sneak into the United States by squeezing into an auxiliary fuel tank that was mounted in the bed of a pickup truck.
