White substance in envelope at Reagan Library causes security scare
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – A white substance from an envelope opened by a staff member at the Ronald Reagan Library in Simi Valley, California, caused a security scare on Monday, but the substance was later found to be non-toxic, a spokeswoman for the ins…
Texas jury convicts woman of murder in ‘black widow’ trial
FORT WORTH Texas (Reuters) – A Texas jury in what has been dubbed a “black widow” trial convicted a 45-year-old mother of four of murder and evidence tampering on Monday for shooting to death her husband in a 2011 plot to collect insurance money, an of…
Flat roofs no longer required on L.A. skyscrapers as city repeals rule
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Los Angeles has scrapped a 1950s rule requiring its skyscrapers to have flat roofs and helipads, giving architects a freer hand to shape the skyline of America’s second-largest city.
Texas jury convicts woman of murder in so-called ‘black widow’ trial
(Reuters) – A Texas jury convicted a 45-year-old mother of four of murder and tampering with evidence on Monday in the 2011 shooting death of her husband in a suburb of Fort Worth in a plot to collect insurance money, an official said.
Texas jury convicts woman of murder in so-called ‘black widow’ trial
(Reuters) – A Texas jury convicted a 45-year-old mother of four of murder and tampering with evidence on Monday in the 2011 shooting death of her husband in a suburb of Fort Worth in a plot to collect insurance money, an official said.
Victim in Florida loud music shooting was in defensive position, court told
JACKSONVILLE Fla. (Reuters) – The trajectory of the bullets that killed an unarmed teen in a gas station dispute over loud rap music indicates that the victim could not have been in an aggressive pose, a forensic expert testified on Monday in a raciall…
Suspect in Oklahoma beheading expected to be charged with murder
OKLAHOMA CITY (Reuters) – Oklahoma plans to file a murder charge as early as Tuesday against Alton Nolen, who is suspected of beheading a former co-worker at a food distribution center last week, prosecutors said.
Parents of autistic Pennsylvania boy charged in starvation death
HARRISBURG Pa. (Reuters) – Police in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, charged the parents of a 9-year-old autistic boy with homicide on Monday in their son’s starvation death in July.
New York lawyers charged with bribing court employee for clients
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Three New York defense attorneys and a paralegal were indicted by the Manhattan district attorney on Monday on charges of bribing a court employee to steer clients to them.
Woman pleads not guilty to 20-year-old South Carolina kidnapping
CHARLESTON S.C. (Reuters) – Dorothy Lee Barnett, 54, pleaded not guilty in federal court in Charleston on Monday to charges of parental kidnapping and falsifying passports 20 years ago. 
