Detroit resumes water shutoffs for unpaid bills
DETROIT (Reuters) – Controversial water shutoffs in Detroit resumed on Tuesday after a month-long moratorium to allow delinquent customers to catch up with past-due bills, city officials said.
Four family members drown in Oregon lake
(Reuters) – Four members of a family, including two children, have drowned at an Oregon lake, in an unusual occurrence that may have started with one person getting into trouble in the water and other members of the family wading in, authorities said o…
Seventh-day Adventist church sued over allegations of abuse in youth program
PORTLAND Ore. (Reuters) – Two men who say they were molested in the 1970s by a youth group leader in Oregon sued the Seventh-day Adventist church for $13.5 million on Tuesday, saying it had appointed a known pedophile to head the program and failed to …
Ohio teenager found guilty of two ‘knockout game’ robberies of $10
(Reuters) – An Ohio teenager was found guilty after he pleaded no contest on Tuesday to two “knockout game” robberies in which he and two teenage accomplices stole a total of $10, prosecutors said.
Mississippi woman stands trial in fatal buttocks injection case
JACKSON Miss. (Reuters) – A Mississippi woman accused of administering an unlicensed silicone buttocks injection to a patient who later died should be convicted of murder, prosecutors told jurors in a trial that commenced on Tuesday.
Suspect in L.A. killings charged with two other shootings
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – A man arrested in Los Angeles on suspicion of committing three apparently random shotgun slayings within a single hour on Sunday was formally charged on Tuesday with two other shootings, one of them fatal, police and prosecutors…
Hurricane Cristobal moving away from U.S., but rip currents likely
MIAMI (Reuters) – Hurricane Cristobal continued to turn to the northeast on Tuesday, moving away from the Bahamas and the United States coast but is still likely to stir up dangerous coastal conditions, the National Hurricane Center said.
Hurricane Cristobal moving away from U.S., but rip currents likely
MIAMI (Reuters) – Hurricane Cristobal continued to turn to the northeast on Tuesday, moving away from the Bahamas and the United States coast but is still likely to stir up dangerous coastal conditions, the National Hurricane Center said.
Detroit’s $1.8 billion refunding bonds priced in muni market
(Reuters) – Detroit completed the pricing on Tuesday of $1.8 billion of water and sewer refinancing bonds related to a tender offer aimed at dealing with a big chunk of the bankrupt city’s debt.
U.S. court will not block lawsuits over Connecticut SWAT raid
MILFORD Conn. (Reuters) – A U.S. federal appeals court has ruled that Connecticut police cannot claim immunity to quash lawsuits seeking millions of dollars in damages from a botched 2008 raid by a SWAT team that severely injured a homeowner and killed…
