Alumni group says Ohio university fired band director to placate probe
CLEVELAND (Reuters) – An Ohio State University alumni group critical of the firing of a popular band director said on Friday his dismissal was a bid to appease Title IX investigators probing sexual harassment and abuse at the school.
NFL’s Adrian Peterson charged with child abuse
AUSTIN Texas (Reuters) – Police were seeking to arrest Minnesota Vikings star running back Adrian Peterson on a charge of injury to a child, a Texas sheriff’s office said on Friday, while Peterson’s attorney said he used “a switch to spank his son.”
Kentucky man admits to selling fraudulent fertility kits
(Reuters) – A Kentucky man, who made international news for saying he was trying to clone humans, must close or sell his business after pleading guilty to a federal charge that he misled customers about in-home fertility kits, according to court docume…
Plan to divide California into six states fails to qualify for ballot
(Reuters) – A long-shot effort to break California into six separate states failed to collect enough signatures to put it on the November 2016 ballot, state officials said on Friday, as the group behind the plan criticized the rejection.
Colorado mistakenly sends valid driver’s licenses to illegal immigrants
DENVER (Reuters) – More than 500 illegal immigrants in Colorado mistakenly received driver’s licenses or photo identification cards intended for U.S. citizens because of a vendor’s printing error, the company and state officials said on Friday.
South Carolina congressman Mark Sanford calls off engagement
CHARLESTON S.C. (Reuters) – South Carolina congressman Mark Sanford called off his engagement to his Argentine “soul mate,” Maria Belen Chapur, in a lengthy Facebook post on Friday, citing an ongoing lawsuit with his ex-wife.
Obama says need to ‘snuff out’ militant groups like Islamic State
BALTIMORE (Reuters) – President Barack Obama said on Friday the goal of an international coalition he is helping to form is to “ultimately snuff out” the type of extremism demonstrated by Islamic State in Iraq and Syria.
Appeals court gives temporary okay to Wisconsin voter ID law
CHICAGO (Reuters) – A U.S. appeals court in Chicago said on Friday that Wisconsin can implement its 2012 law requiring voters to present photo identification at the ballot box, allowing the state to put the new rules into effect at the general election…
U.S. uses state secrets law to intervene in Iran-related lawsuit
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The U.S. government has moved to invoke a powerful national security law to dismiss a private lawsuit against a non-profit group, United Against A Nuclear Iran, on grounds that the case could reveal state secrets, according to a co…
U.S. judge orders Arizona to recognize gay couple’s marriage
PHOENIX (Reuters) – A federal judge on Friday ordered Arizona to recognize the California marriage of a gay man whose spouse died from cancer last month, a ruling that could foreshadow a decision on the state’s same-sex marriage ban.
