Flat roofs no longer required on L.A. skyscrapers as city repeals rule
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Los Angeles has scrapped a 1950s rule requiring its skyscrapers to have flat roofs and helipads, giving architects a freer hand to shape the skyline of America’s second-largest city.
Texas jury convicts woman of murder in so-called ‘black widow’ trial
(Reuters) – A Texas jury convicted a 45-year-old mother of four of murder and tampering with evidence on Monday in the 2011 shooting death of her husband in a suburb of Fort Worth in a plot to collect insurance money, an official said.
Texas jury convicts woman of murder in so-called ‘black widow’ trial
(Reuters) – A Texas jury convicted a 45-year-old mother of four of murder and tampering with evidence on Monday in the 2011 shooting death of her husband in a suburb of Fort Worth in a plot to collect insurance money, an official said.
Victim in Florida loud music shooting was in defensive position, court told
JACKSONVILLE Fla. (Reuters) – The trajectory of the bullets that killed an unarmed teen in a gas station dispute over loud rap music indicates that the victim could not have been in an aggressive pose, a forensic expert testified on Monday in a raciall…
Suspect in Oklahoma beheading expected to be charged with murder
OKLAHOMA CITY (Reuters) – Oklahoma plans to file a murder charge as early as Tuesday against Alton Nolen, who is suspected of beheading a former co-worker at a food distribution center last week, prosecutors said.
Parents of autistic Pennsylvania boy charged in starvation death
HARRISBURG Pa. (Reuters) – Police in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, charged the parents of a 9-year-old autistic boy with homicide on Monday in their son’s starvation death in July.
New York lawyers charged with bribing court employee for clients
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Three New York defense attorneys and a paralegal were indicted by the Manhattan district attorney on Monday on charges of bribing a court employee to steer clients to them.
Woman pleads not guilty to 20-year-old South Carolina kidnapping
CHARLESTON S.C. (Reuters) – Dorothy Lee Barnett, 54, pleaded not guilty in federal court in Charleston on Monday to charges of parental kidnapping and falsifying passports 20 years ago. 
Texas jury starts deliberations in ‘black widow’ murder trial
FORT WORTH Texas (Reuters) – A jury began deliberations on Monday in what has been dubbed the “black widow” case of a Texas woman accused of shooting her husband dead for insurance money and then launching a plot to frame someone else for the crime.
Spurred by Ferguson, Chicago families want police shootings reviewed
HARVEY Ill. (Reuters) – The national uproar over a fatal police shooting of an unarmed black teenager near St. Louis has prodded families and activists in the Chicago area to ask for investigations into what they say are similar incidents in the crime-…
