Colorado county clerk ‘reluctantly’ halts same-sex marriage licenses
DENVER (Reuters) – A Colorado county clerk who issued nearly three dozen same-sex marriage licenses agreed on Monday to halt the practice after the state’s highest court ordered another clerk to stop issuing the permits to gay couples.
Kansas police arrest suspect in girl’s death
(Reuters) – A man accused of kidnapping a 5-year-old Kansas girl who died in a shootout between police and her alleged abductor was arrested in a hospital on Monday on suspicion of charges including first-degree murder and aggravated kidnapping, author…
Lawyers for Mississippi death-row inmate want conviction overturned
JACKSON Miss. (Reuters) – Attorneys for a Mississippi death-row inmate who was tried six times for the same killings told the state Supreme Court on Monday that his most recent trial was unfair and his conviction should be overturned.
Traps set after reports of giant snake on New Jersey’s Lake Hopatcong
(Reuters) – In a scene that could open the film “Snakes on a Jet Ski,” New Jersey animal control workers have set traps to snare a reported 20-foot-long serpent slithering through the waters of Lake Hopatcong.
New Mexico teens charged with beating two homeless men to death
ALBUQUERQUE N.M. (Reuters) – Prosecutors have charged three New Mexico teens with murder for allegedly beating to death two homeless men whose bodies were so badly disfigured they have yet to be identified, police and the Albuquerque District Attorney’…
Texas man arrested for posing as veterinarian
HOUSTON (Reuters) – A 26-year-old Houston man has been arrested for practicing veterinary medicine without a license after he dispensed medicine and performed makeshift treatments on at least 50 animals, police said on Monday.
U.S. court denies bid to reconsider stay of Arizona execution
PHOENIX (Reuters) – A federal appeals court on Monday rejected a bid by Arizona to remove a block that stops the state executing a double murderer until he is provided with more information about the drugs to be used to put him to death.
New York City settles inmate death lawsuit for $2.75 million
NEW YORK (Reuters) – New York City has agreed to pay $2.75 million to settle a lawsuit filed by the family of a jail inmate who claimed guards beat him to death.
Jury selection starts for Michigan man accused of killing black teen
(Reuters) – Jury selection began on Monday for a white suburban Detroit homeowner charged with killing a black teenager with a shotgun blast to the face after she knocked on his door seeking help early one November morning.
Prisoner scales fence to escape Oregon jail
PORTLAND Ore. (Reuters) – A man awaiting trial for theft managed to escape an Oregon jail after he was let outside as part of a work crew, fled across the jail parking lot and jumped a fence in the latest in a string of Oregon prisoner escapes, authori…
