Hartford police chief criticized by union for joining protesters
HARTFORD Conn. (Reuters) – The head of the police union in Connecticut’s state capital on Thursday blasted the city’s police chief for marching with protesters demanding that criminal charges be dropped against a teenager subdued by an officer’s stun g…
Florida appeals court says state can rule on gay marriage ban
MIAMI (Reuters) – An appeals court in Florida on Thursday rejected a motion by its attorney general that urged the state’s top court to delay a ruling on its same-sex marriage ban until the U.S. Supreme Court eventually decides on the issue.
No criminal charges in fatal gun range shooting by 9-year-old girl
WHITE HILLS Ariz. (Reuters) – County law enforcement officials in Arizona said on Thursday no criminal charges are pending after a probe into a gun range incident in which a 9-year-old girl fatally shot her instructor with an Uzi, adding it was “being …
Lawsuit says police altered video in West Virginia shooting
(Reuters) – Police in a West Virginia city altered video evidence in the death of a mentally ill black man who was shot and killed last year during a confrontation with officers, a lawyer for the victim’s family said on Thursday.
Opponents of tuition vouchers file lawsuit in Florida
TALLAHASSEE Fla. (Reuters) – Opponents of tuition vouchers in Florida filed suit on Thursday against the state’s corporate tax credit scholarship program, saying it illegally subsidizes religious schools and violates the state’s requirement to guarante…
Arizona mom who left children in hot car regains custody
PHOENIX (Reuters) – An Arizona woman who attracted national attention in March when she left her two young children in a hot car while at a job interview regained custody of them on Thursday, her lawyer said.
White House orders U.S. labs to take inventory of infectious agents
CHICAGO (Reuters) – The White House has ordered federally funded labs working with infectious agents to conduct an immediate inventory of the pathogens in their labs and review their safety and security protocols, according to a memo released on Thursd…
Oklahoma releases prison log for botched April execution
OKLAHOMA CITY (Reuters) – A person trained to draw blood inserted the IV for the botched execution of a convicted murderer in Oklahoma last April, a prison log released on Thursday revealed, but gave no other details of what happened when the procedure…
Big U.S. banks seek new clarity on risks of marijuana-linked accounts
ST. LOUIS (Thomson Reuters Accelus) – Major banks are getting increasingly wary of some transactions with smaller banks that have begun to allow marijuana businesses to open accounts. Officials at the bigger institutions say they fear being in breach o…
Disputed Kurdish oil tanker mysteriously goes dark off Texas coast
HOUSTON (Reuters) – A tanker near Texas loaded with $100 million of disputed Iraqi Kurdish crude has disappeared from satellite tracking, the latest development in a high stakes game of cat-and-mouse between Baghdad and the Kurds.
