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.
Islamic State issues video of beheading of U.S. hostage
DUBAI (Reuters) – The Islamic State militant group released a video on Tuesday purporting to show the beheading of a second American hostage, journalist Steven Sotloff, raising the stakes in its confrontation with Washington over U.S. air strikes on it…
Indianapolis teenager was asphyxiated, body burned: authorities
(Reuters) – An Indianapolis teenager whose badly burned body was found behind a house over the weekend died of asphyxiation, authorities said on Tuesday.
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, said a sheriff’s report r…
California boy, 7, hurt at firing range owned by his family
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – A 7-year-old boy was wounded at a private firing range at his family’s property in Northern California while shooting targets with his father and had to be airlifted to a hospital, police said on Tuesday.
Three killed, two injured in Kansas City shooting
KANSAS CITY Mo. (Reuters) – Three people were killed and two more critically injured in a shooting spree in a south Kansas City neighborhood on Tuesday afternoon, police said.
Suspect in Massachusetts child-porn bust had arsenal, ‘murder book’: FBI
BOSTON (Reuters) – A Massachusetts man arrested on Tuesday and charged with trafficking in child pornography also had a small arsenal of guns, explosives and a hand-written “Mass Murder Book,” according to federal prosecutors.
Ex-owner of Poconos resort ordered to pay back former employee pensions
SCRANTON Pa. (Reuters) – A federal judge on Tuesday ordered a former honeymoon resort owner in Pennsylvania’s Pocono Mountains to pay more than $2 million for illegally dipping into his employees’ pensions.
Appeals court grills U.S. lawyer on NSA phone collection
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A U.S. appeals court on Tuesday grilled an Obama administration lawyer about the legality of the continuing collection of millions of Americans’ phone records, adding fuel to a debate that has raged since the spy program was reveal…
U.S. Navy delays start of bidding for unmanned carrier-based drone
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Navy, concerned about the affordability of a new carrier-based unmanned spy plane, has delayed this month’s planned kickoff of the competition to build it, officials said on Tuesday.
