Mother surprised to learn son killed by Louisiana police
LAFAYETTE La. (Reuters) – For six months, Catherine Cortez believed that her 30-year-old son, who died in March after a scuffle with police in Louisiana, had succumbed to brain damage from chronic cocaine use.
Florida couple face charges months after avoiding U.S. SEC lawsuit
MIAMI (Reuters) – A Florida couple has been charged with running an alleged $300 million real estate Ponzi scheme only months after dodging a Securities and Exchange Commission lawsuit that was rejected when a U.S. federal judge ruled the five-year sta…
U.S. attorney general urges changes to fight more Wall St. crime
WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) – U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder on Wednesday called for Congress to take steps to help prosecutors build criminal cases against senior Wall Street executives, saying companies often insulated their leaders from respons…
Cop who killed Missouri teen testifies before grand jury: newspaper
(Reuters) – The Ferguson, Missouri police officer whose fatal shooting of an unarmed black teenager has ignited weeks of protests testified Tuesday before a St. Louis grand jury hearing evidence in the case, according to a report in the St. Louis Post-…
Maine man found guilty of blocking train tracks in oil-by-rail protest
AUBURN Maine (Reuters) – A man who helped block Maine railroad tracks to protest the transport of crude oil through the state after a deadly 2013 train crash across the Canadian border was convicted of criminal trespass for the incident, according to c…
Chinese hacked U.S. military contractors, Senate panel finds
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Hackers associated with the Chinese government have repeatedly infiltrated the computer systems of U.S. airlines, technology companies and other contractors involved in the movement of U.S. troops and military equipment, a U.S. S…
Obama could deploy U.S. military advisers to forward positions in Iraq: White House
ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE (Reuters) – President Barack Obama would consider requests to “forward deploy” U.S. military advisers with Iraqi troops “on a case-by-case basis” if they are needed, White House spokesman Josh Earnest said on Wednesday.
Yelp, TinyCo fined by U.S. for improperly collecting kids’ data
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The popular online review site Yelp and the maker of children’s mobile device apps including Tiny Pets and Tiny Monsters have separately agreed to settle charges that they improperly collected kids’ information online, the U.S. F…
Judge pauses Detroit’s bankruptcy trial again
DETROIT (Reuters) – U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Steven Rhodes ordered a week-long break in Detroit’s bankruptcy trial on Wednesday, giving the last major objector to the city’s restructuring plan time to rework its case.
U.S. Army soldier accused of smuggling undocumented immigrants
(Reuters) – A U.S. Army soldier has been accused of smuggling two undocumented immigrants across the Texas-Mexico border while in uniform, according to a federal criminal complaint.
