Police investigate high-profile NYC lawyer after rape complaint
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Authorities are investigating an allegation that a New York lawyer who has been involved in high-profile civil rights lawsuits against police raped a woman at his Manhattan apartment last week, police said on Monday.
Detroit not ‘where we need to be,’ but can rebuild after bankruptcy: mayor
DETROIT (Reuters) – Detroit may take years before fully functioning as a city, its mayor said on Monday as he gave a tepid blessing to the plan for ending the city’s historic bankruptcy.
Suspected gunman wrote letter about Pennsylvania ambush: CNN
(Reuters) – The survivalist accused of gunning down two Pennsylvania State Police troopers left a handwritten letter detailing the ambush and his escape, CNN reported on Monday.
Jewish fraternity house in Atlanta vandalized with swastikas
ATLANTA (Reuters) – Swastikas were spray painted on a Jewish fraternity house at Emory University in Atlanta hours after the solemn Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur, school officials said on Monday.
Attorneys back in court to narrow jury pool in Jodi Arias sentencing retrial
PHOENIX (Reuters) – Attorneys returned to an Arizona court on Monday to narrow an already whittled-down pool for selecting jurors who will determine whether convicted murderer Jodi Arias will be executed for killing her ex-boyfriend at his Phoenix-area…
Hot air balloon drifts into ocean in California, surfers come to rescue
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – A hot air balloon carrying a man who had just proposed to his girlfriend drifted into the ocean off the Southern California coast, where daring surfers grabbed a rope to pull the aircraft to shore, an official said on Monday.
NFL’s Jacksonville Jaguars apologize for Ebola prank by mascot
(Reuters) – The National Football League’s Jacksonville Jaguars apologized on Monday after their mascot used the Ebola epidemic to taunt fans of the Pittsburgh Steelers.
Child in Seattle suburb under boil water order sickened by E. coli
SEATTLE (Reuters) – A child living in a wealthy Seattle suburb under orders to boil its tap water after tests showed the presence of E. coli has become infected with the bacteria, authorities said on Monday.
Boeing to build some 777X parts in St. Louis: sources
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Boeing Co plans to start building some parts of its 777X commercial airliner at the company’s huge defense business facility in St. Louis, a move that will add hundreds of jobs in several years, according to sources familiar with…
U.S. wealthy give less income to charity, mid-earners give more: report
(Reuters) – Wealthy Americans contributed less of their incomes to charity while low and middle-income residents gave more in the years surrounding the Great Recession, according to a newly released report by The Chronicle of Philanthropy.
