U.S. appeals court sides with gay marriage proponents in Utah
SALT LAKE CITY (Reuters) – A U.S. appeals court on Friday denied Utah’s bid to further block legal recognition of about 1,300 same-sex weddings performed after the state’s gay marriage ban was briefly lifted by a federal judge in December.
Seattle’s attorney apologizes for taking bags of marijuana to the office
SEATTLE (Reuters) – Seattle City Attorney Pete Holmes on Friday apologized for violating workplace rules by bringing bags of marijuana he purchased from newly-opened Washington state pot shops back to his office.
Lawyers for Colorado theater gunman oppose videotaping sanity exam
DENVER (Reuters) – Attorneys for an accused mass murderer who claims he was insane when he shot 12 moviegoers to death at a Colorado cinema two years ago oppose the videotaping of their client as he undergoes a new psychiatric examination, court record…
Female Yahoo executive sued for sexual harassment
(Reuters) – A high-level female Yahoo Inc executive has been sued in California by a woman who worked under her and is accusing her former boss of sexual harassment and wrongful termination.
U.S. Navy maintains grounding order on F-35 fighter jets
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Navy on Friday maintained a grounding order for F-35 B-model and C-model fighter jets built by Lockheed Martin Corp given that it remained unclear what had caused a massive engine failure on an Air Force F-35 jet on June…
California high court softens ‘three strikes’ law
SACRAMENTO Calif. (Reuters) – California’s highest court has softened implementation of the state’s “three-strikes-and-you’re-out” criminal sentencing law, marking the second time the rules for identifying and imprisoning career criminals have been loo…
Accused Boston bomber spoke of martyrdom before attack: FBI
BOSTON (Reuters) – Accused Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev told his friends about martyrdom and bomb-building over lunch before the attacks last year, an FBI agent testified on Friday in the trial of one of the friends for obstruction.
Two more charged in slaying of 12-year-old NJ girl on scooter
NEWARK N.J. (Reuters) – Two more suspects were charged in the killing of a 12-year-old New Jersey girl who was struck in the head by a stray bullet as she rode her scooter to a family gathering, authorities said on Friday.
U.S. anthrax probe reveals new bird flu mishap, widespread safety lapses
(Reuters) – Federal health officials on Friday disclosed a new safety breach at a high-security U.S. government laboratory involving dangerous avian flu, a lapse that came to light as they investigated the potential exposure of researchers to live anth…
Armed citizen groups seek recruits to secure U.S. border
DALLAS (Reuters) – Citizen groups in border states are seeking armed volunteers to patrol the U.S.-Mexico frontier alongside law enforcement officers who are struggling to deal with a surge of undocumented migrants from Central America.
