Newtown donations created deep rift after shootings, official says
HARTFORD Conn. (Reuters) – The millions of dollars in donations and grants that poured into Newtown, Connecticut, in the aftermath of one of the worst school massacres in U.S. history have created a deep, “permanent fracture” in the community, a town official said on Friday.
California state senator gets jail time in voter fraud case
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – A California state senator convicted on eight felony counts of perjury and voter fraud was sentenced to 90 days in jail on Friday in one of three ethics scandals involving Democratic lawmakers in the most populous U.S. state.
Migrant families in U.S. detention centers ‘political pawns’: activists
(Reuters) – U.S. detention centers for immigrant families treat those in custody as political pawns and make it difficult for them to obtain due process under U.S. laws, activists said on Friday.
Colorado candidate gets death threat after questioning Sandy Hook massacre
DENVER (Reuters) – A candidate for a county commission seat in Colorado said on Friday he received a death threat after questioning whether the 2012 school shooting that killed 20 children in Connecticut was a hoax.
Woman found in Massachusetts home with dead babies may be mentally ill: lawyer
BLACKSTONE Mass. (Reuters) – A 31-year-old Massachusetts woman found living with the bodies of three dead infants in a rodent-infested house in a quiet suburb may be suffering from mental illness, her court-appointed lawyer said on Friday.
Philadelphia woman who posed in Muslim garb guilty of child assault
PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) – A former childcare worker accused of dressing in traditional Muslim garb to abduct a kindergartner from her Philadelphia school was found guilty of sexually assaulting the child after holding her overnight.
Connecticut home invasion killer sues for Kosher meals on death row
(Reuters) – A man sentenced to death for a triple murder in a brutal home invasion in Connecticut is suing to demand a Kosher diet as a newly declared Orthodox Jew, saying the prison’s resistance has forced him into “starvation.”
St. Louis groups donating funds to Ferguson schools, shops
(Reuters) – A group of St. Louis corporate executives and a consortium of businesses and civic groups said on Friday they were donating $85,000 to schools and small businesses in Ferguson, Missouri, to help the town recover after weeks of protests over…
N.J. man who left pig mask on stabbed ex-wife gets 50 years
MORRISTOWN N.J. (Reuters) – A New Jersey man who stabbed his ex-wife 84 times before placing a rubber pig mask over her face was sentenced on Friday to 50 years in prison for her murder.
South Carolina father, jailed in kids’ deaths, in ‘mental disarray’: lawyer
(Reuters) – A father who is accused of killing his five children in South Carolina and dumping their bodies in rural Alabama is scared and remorseful, and his family fears he suffers from an untreated mental illness, an attorney said on Friday.
