Serial killer sentenced to life in prison for three Los Angeles stranglings
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – A 74-year-old career criminal convicted in the strangling deaths of three women in Los Angeles was sentenced on Thursday to life in prison without the possibility of parole for the crimes committed in the 1980s, prosecutors said…
Collector auctions rifle purportedly used in 1966 Texas tower killings
DALLAS (Reuters) – A Dallas gun collector is selling what he said is a rifle used in the sniper attack by ex-Marine Charles Whitman, who perched himself atop the University of Texas clock tower in a 1966 shooting spree that killed 16 people and wounded…
U.S. government unaware of purported subway attack plot, U.S. official says
NEW YORK (Reuters) – No one in the U.S. government is aware of a purported plot to attack the U.S. and French subway systems that was revealed on Thursday to journalists by Iraqi’s prime minister, a senior U.S. administration official said.
Rain helps firefighters suppress blaze in California’s Sierras
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Rain and cooler temperatures in California’s rugged Sierra Nevada brought welcome relief on Thursday to fire crews battling flames that have destroyed a dozen homes and threatened thousands more during the past two weeks near La…
Utah will appeal federal judge’s ‘Sister Wives’ bigamy ruling
(Reuters) – Utah will appeal a U.S. federal judge’s ruling that declared part of the state’s bigamy law unconstitutional and sided with the star of reality television show “Sister Wives” and his four wives, officials said on Thursday.
Police chief issues apology over slain black teen in Missouri
(Reuters) – After weeks of heavy criticism and calls for his ouster, the police chief of Ferguson, Missouri, issued a video apology on Thursday to the parents of Michael Brown, the black teenager shot to death by a white police officer last month.
University in Washington state given all-clear after bomb threat
SEATTLE (Reuters) – Police gave the all-clear on Thursday following a bomb threat that forced the evacuation of Gonzaga University in Spokane, Washington, emergency officials said.
Jury begins hearing retrial of Florida loud music shooting
JACKSONVILLE Fla. (Reuters) – A Florida jury began hearing the retrial on Thursday of Michael Dunn, a middle-aged white man charged with murder after he shot an unarmed black teenager during an argument over loud rap music.
Obama says ‘significant gap’ in global effort to fight Ebola
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama warned on Thursday that there was still a “significant gap between where we are and where we need to be” in the international response to the Ebola outbreak in West Africa and appealed for more cou…
Police probe parking meter scam in chic Colorado resort
DENVER (Reuters) – Police in the Colorado mountain resort of Aspen are investigating a parking meter scam involving pre-paid debit and credit cards that they say may have cost the city $600,000 in the past couple of years.
