Lawsuit says police altered video in West Virginia shooting
(Reuters) – Police in a West Virginia city altered video evidence in the death of a mentally ill black man who was shot and killed last year during a confrontation with officers, a lawyer for the victim’s family said on Thursday.
Opponents of tuition vouchers file lawsuit in Florida
TALLAHASSEE Fla. (Reuters) – Opponents of tuition vouchers in Florida filed suit on Thursday against the state’s corporate tax credit scholarship program, saying it illegally subsidizes religious schools and violates the state’s requirement to guarante…
Arizona mom who left children in hot car regains custody
PHOENIX (Reuters) – An Arizona woman who attracted national attention in March when she left her two young children in a hot car while at a job interview regained custody of them on Thursday, her lawyer said.
White House orders U.S. labs to take inventory of infectious agents
CHICAGO (Reuters) – The White House has ordered federally funded labs working with infectious agents to conduct an immediate inventory of the pathogens in their labs and review their safety and security protocols, according to a memo released on Thursd…
Oklahoma releases prison log for botched April execution
OKLAHOMA CITY (Reuters) – A person trained to draw blood inserted the IV for the botched execution of a convicted murderer in Oklahoma last April, a prison log released on Thursday revealed, but gave no other details of what happened when the procedure…
Big U.S. banks seek new clarity on risks of marijuana-linked accounts
ST. LOUIS (Thomson Reuters Accelus) – Major banks are getting increasingly wary of some transactions with smaller banks that have begun to allow marijuana businesses to open accounts. Officials at the bigger institutions say they fear being in breach o…
Disputed Kurdish oil tanker mysteriously goes dark off Texas coast
HOUSTON (Reuters) – A tanker near Texas loaded with $100 million of disputed Iraqi Kurdish crude has disappeared from satellite tracking, the latest development in a high stakes game of cat-and-mouse between Baghdad and the Kurds.
High-ranking Chicago cop charged with putting gun in suspect’s mouth
CHICAGO (Reuters) – A Chicago police commander who had been praised for his crime fighting in some of the city’s roughest neighborhoods appeared in court on Thursday to face charges he put a gun in a suspect’s mouth, officials said.
Israel police find body of missing U.S. student
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israeli police said on Thursday they had found the body of a 23-year-old American student who went missing last week near a forest in Jerusalem and that they did not suspect a criminal motive.
After the riots, Ferguson businesses long for normal
FERGUSON Mo. (Reuters) – When Ferguson business owner Chantelle Nickson-Clark spoke at a St. Louis County council meeting this week, her voice shook with anger.
