California woman freed after 17 years, declared innocent of murder
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – A 59-year-old California woman who spent 17 years in prison for murder was ordered freed on Friday by a judge who said she was wrongly convicted on the basis of testimony by a woman known to be a habitual liar, the Los Angeles T…
Las Vegas sounds false alarm as global Ebola fears spread
(Reuters) – A commercial plane was briefly quarantined on a Las Vegas airport tarmac on Friday, sending airline shares down as worldwide fears increased that Ebola could spread outside West Africa, where it has killed more than 4,000 people.
St. Louis braces for weekend of protests after new shooting
CLAYTON Mo. (Reuters) – Hundreds of protesters marched through the rain on Friday afternoon to the St. Louis County courthouse, kicking off a weekend of demonstrations against police violence after eight people were arrested in protests overnight.
Toronto-Dominion Bank executive charged for role in $1 billion scheme
MIAMI (Reuters) – A former Toronto-Dominion Bank executive was charged in south Florida federal court with six counts wire fraud and conspiracy to commit wire fraud in connection with a $1 billion Florida Ponzi scheme on Friday, according to court docu…
One hiker found dead, another injured in Colorado peaks
DENVER (Reuters) – Rescuers in Colorado found one hiker dead and another injured on Friday following a two-day search for the missing men in the mountains above the resort town of Aspen, authorities said.
Haitian man faces U.S. charges over reclining airline seat squabble
BOSTON (Reuters) – A Haitian man who authorities say got into a heated dispute on a flight bound from Miami to Paris over a reclining seat has been charged with assaulting a flight attendant, U.S. prosecutors in Boston said on Friday.
Co-founder of indicted money exchange extradited to U.S.
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Spanish authorities have extradited to the United States a co-founder of the digital currency exchange Liberty Reserve to face charges that his creation was an unlawful money-laundering operation, U.S. prosecutors said on Friday.
Alaska parents find son alive after police notify wrong family
(Reuters) – An Alaska couple, who had been told by police that their 29-year-old son had been killed in a car crash, were overcome with joy just hours later when they discovered him alive and well at his home in Anchorage, officials and media said on F…
Senator Walsh of Montana stripped of degree for plagiarism
(Reuters) – The U.S. Army War College has revoked the master’s degree of U.S. Senator John Walsh of Montana, the result of a plagiarism scandal that prompted him in August to abandon his election bid, both Walsh and the college said on Friday.
Equatorial Guinea VP loses Michael Jackson statues in U.S. settlement
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A federal judge in California announced a $30 million settlement on Friday between the United States and a vice president of Equatorial Guinea that requires him to forfeit his U.S. assets, including a collection of six life-sized…
