CDC experts to deploy to Texas if patient has Ebola: official
DALLAS (Reuters) – U.S. health specialists are ready to deploy to Dallas if a patient being evaluated for Ebola is found to be carrying the disease that has killed thousands of people in West Africa, a Dallas County official said on Tuesday.
Murder charges dropped over California prosecutor’s tryst with criminalist
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – A California district attorney said on Tuesday he would drop murder charges against the husband and brother-in-law of a woman killed in 1989 after learning the lead prosecutor in the case had an affair with a criminalist who han…
Georgia woman gets 30-year prison term in daughter’s malnutrition death
ATLANTA (Reuters) – A suburban Atlanta woman was sentenced to 30 years in prison after pleading guilty on Tuesday to involuntary manslaughter and child cruelty charges in the malnutrition death of her 16-year-old daughter.
Student shot after argument at North Carolina high school
WINSTON-SALEM N.C. (Reuters) – An argument between two male students outside a North Carolina high school early on Tuesday ended with one of them shooting the other, police said.
Grandmother of girl killed by Detroit police said they ‘came to kill’
DETROIT (Reuters) – The grandmother of a 7-year-old girl killed by a Detroit police officer testified at his manslaughter trial on Tuesday that she doesn’t feel she can trust the police.
California becomes first U.S. state to ban plastic grocery bags
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Single-use plastic bags are set to disappear from California grocery stores over the next two years under a first-in-the-nation state law signed on Tuesday by Democratic Governor Jerry Brown, despite opposition from bag manufa…
Brookfield bids for Atlantic City’s Revel Casino: WSJ
(Reuters) – An affiliate of Brookfield Asset Management has topped Florida real estate developer Glenn Straub’s $90 million bid for the bankrupt Revel Casino Hotel in Atlantic City, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing sources.
Colorado student protests spread to a middle school
DENVER (Reuters) – Protests against a proposed curriculum change that saw hundreds of high school students walk out of class in a Colorado district spread to a middle school on Tuesday.
Colorado court hears appeal of worker fired for medical marijuana
(Reuters) – The Colorado Supreme court on Tuesday heard arguments over whether employees can be fired for using medical marijuana, which is legal in the state but illegal under federal law.
Inmate convicted of police killing to speak at Vermont graduation
PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) – A former death row inmate, now serving a life sentence for the murder of a Philadelphia police officer in 1981, will deliver a graduation speech at a liberal arts college in Vermont at the request of students there.
