U.S. home-schooling group criticizes Sandy Hook panel report
MILFORD Conn. (Reuters) – A U.S. home-schooling advocacy group on Tuesday criticized a proposal for closer monitoring of home-schooled students, likely to be made by a Connecticut panel charged with improving school safety following the 2012 Newtown ma…
Judge accepts guilty plea in U.S. embassy bombing case
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A U.S. judge on Tuesday accepted the guilty plea of an Egyptian man charged in connection with the deadly 1998 bombings of two U.S. embassies in Africa, 10 days after expressing concern that prosecutors had given him too lenient a …
Student injured in shooting at Kentucky high school: officials
LOUISVILLE Ky. (Reuters) – A student was injured on Tuesday in a shooting at a Louisville, Kentucky, high school, and police have arrested a suspect, officials said.
Olympic swimming champ Phelps arrested on drunken driving charge
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – American swimmer Michael Phelps, the most decorated Olympian of all time, was arrested for drunken driving early on Tuesday after speeding and then crossing the double-lane lines inside a Baltimore tunnel, police said.
U.S. restaurant patrons support minimum wage hike: survey
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – While the U.S. restaurant industry fights national and state efforts to increase the minimum wage, a new survey released on Tuesday showed that 83 percent of restaurant patrons support raising it and adjusting it annually for in…
Body of missing Arkansas real estate agent found in shallow grave
LITTLE ROCK Ark. (Reuters) – The body of a missing Arkansas real estate agent was found on Tuesday in a shallow grave at an industrial site several miles from the house she was trying to sell at the time of her disappearance last week, police said.
CDC experts to deploy to Texas if patient has Ebola: official
DALLAS (Reuters) – U.S. health specialists are ready to deploy to Dallas if a patient being evaluated for Ebola is found to be carrying the disease that has killed thousands of people in West Africa, a Dallas County official said on Tuesday.
Murder charges dropped over California prosecutor’s tryst with criminalist
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – A California district attorney said on Tuesday he would drop murder charges against the husband and brother-in-law of a woman killed in 1989 after learning the lead prosecutor in the case had an affair with a criminalist who han…
Georgia woman gets 30-year prison term in daughter’s malnutrition death
ATLANTA (Reuters) – A suburban Atlanta woman was sentenced to 30 years in prison after pleading guilty on Tuesday to involuntary manslaughter and child cruelty charges in the malnutrition death of her 16-year-old daughter.
Student shot after argument at North Carolina high school
WINSTON-SALEM N.C. (Reuters) – An argument between two male students outside a North Carolina high school early on Tuesday ended with one of them shooting the other, police said.
