U.S. to intervene in Wisconsin, Ohio voter restriction cases
(Reuters) – The U.S. Department of Justice plans to intervene in court challenges to laws that restrict voting in Wisconsin and Ohio, Attorney General Eric Holder said in remarks released on Tuesday.
Utah man sentenced to five years in prison for shooting at synagogue
(Reuters) – A Utah man was sentenced to five years in prison on Tuesday for shooting into an unoccupied synagogue in Salt Lake City in what federal authorities said was an attack motivated by religious bias.
North Carolina man to be freed 19 years after wrongful conviction
RALEIGH N.C. (Reuters) – A North Carolina man who spent nearly two decades in prison for murder will be released as early as this week as he awaits a new trial.
California high court softens ‘three strikes’ law
SACRAMENTO Calif. (Reuters) – (This July 11, 2014, story was corrected in paragraph 6 to show courts, not the state, could reconsider cases )
Dozens of trains haul volatile Bakken oil to NY weekly: railroads
(Reuters) – As many as 44 trains loaded with volatile Bakken crude oil are being sent through the state of New York each week, according to confidential disclosures made by railroads to state emergency responders, and released to Reuters through a Free…
U.S. says deportation of Honduran children a warning to illegal migrants
WASHINGTON/TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) – The White House said on Tuesday that Central Americans trying to cross the U.S. border should know “they will not be welcome to this country,” a day after the United States deported a planeload of women and children t…
Court upholds University of Texas affirmative action plan
(Reuters) – A federal appeals court upheld the use of race by University of Texas at Austin in undergraduate admissions, a victory for affirmative action proponents, one year after the U.S. Supreme Court ordered closer scrutiny of the school’s practice…
Immigration activist Vargas detained and released in Texas
AUSTIN Texas (Reuters) – Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jose Antonio Vargas, an undocumented immigrant and prominent activist, was detained for several hours on Tuesday after being stopped at a security checkpoint at an airport in the border city of…
U.S. judge stays Missouri execution of convicted killer
(Reuters) – A federal judge in Missouri on Tuesday stayed the impending execution of a 54-year-old man convicted of three drug-related murders after the inmate’s lawyers lodged a series of appeals, including arguments he is mentally incompetent and inn…
Maryland insurance executive plotted to kill judge: court documents
ANNAPOLIS Md. (Reuters) – A Maryland executive charged with lying to insurance regulators was allegedly plotting to kill a judge handling his case, according to federal court documents.
