Opponents of high-speed rail project petition California Supreme Court
(Reuters) – Opponents of California’s controversial $68 billion high-speed rail project petitioned the California Supreme Court on Tuesday, arguing a court of appeals decision ignored the financial protections of voters.
Despite dangers, U.S. journalist Sotloff was determined to record Arab Spring’s human toll
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Even for a freelance journalist covering the tumult in the Arab world, Steven Sotloff’s travels seemed nonstop.
Girl who fatally shot Arizona gun instructor said weapon was too powerful
PHOENIX (Reuters) – A 9-year-old girl who fatally shot a gun range instructor with an Uzi submachine gun last week told her mother immediately afterward that the weapon was too much for her to handle and had hurt her shoulder, a sheriff’s report releas…
Drifter convicted of three cold-case Los Angeles murders
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – A drifter and career criminal in his 70s was convicted on Tuesday of strangling three women to death and dumping their bodies in alleys near downtown Los Angeles during the 1980s in a string of cold case serial murders resurrect…
Key hearing on Detroit’s historic bankruptcy begins in US court
DETROIT (Reuters) – Detroit will not recover, and it may not survive as a major city if its debts are not significantly reduced during bankruptcy, a city attorney told a federal judge at the start of a critical phase of the case on Tuesday.
Connecticut catering company CEO resigns over dog-kicking incident
(Reuters) – The chief executive officer of a Connecticut-based catering company has resigned amid a barrage of criticism and possible charges after he was caught on video abusing a dog, the company said on Tuesday.
U.S. prosecutor probes shooting death of Louisiana man in police car
NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) – Federal prosecutors said on Tuesday they are investigating the shooting death of a black man in the back of a Louisiana police car that had previously been ruled a suicide.
Two California judges censured for sex in chambers
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Two California judges who had sex in their respective chambers – one with his clerk and the other with multiple women – have been censured for those acts along with other related misconduct, a state judicial commission said on T…
Mississippi woman gets life sentence in fatal buttocks injection case
JACKSON Miss. (Reuters) – A Mississippi woman convicted of murder for administering an unlicensed silicone buttocks injection to a patient who later died was sentenced on Tuesday to life in prison. 
North Carolina brothers declared innocent, freed after 30 years in prison
RALEIGH N.C. (Reuters) – Two North Carolina men were declared innocent and ordered freed on Tuesday after spending more than 30 years in prison for the rape and murder of an 11-year-old girl that recent DNA tests linked to another man.
