NYC mayor turns to clergy to heal rift over police choke hold
NEW YORK (Reuters) – New York Mayor Bill de Blasio turned to the city’s religious leaders on Wednesday to help heal relations between minority communities after a black man on Staten Island died last month after police put him in a choke hold.
SeaWorld drops appeal in safety ruling over dead orca trainer
ORLANDO Fla. (Reuters) – SeaWorld Entertainment has ended its appeal of a federal safety agency’s citation in connection with the 2010 death of one of its killer whale trainers, the company has told investors.
Maryland trooper suspended after accused of being naked in bar
(Reuters) – A Maryland State Police trooper has been put on administrative suspension after sheriff’s deputies responded to a call reporting a naked man drinking at a bar in a barbecue restaurant, authorities said on Wednesday.
Police interest in wearable cameras spikes after Ferguson shooting
(Reuters) – Digital Ally Inc has been busy fielding a rush of enquiries from U.S. police departments this past week about its wearable cameras, following the fatal police shooting of an unarmed black teenager that triggered large-scale rioting.
Woman sentenced in plot to steal U.S. nuclear secrets
ALBUQUERQUE N.M. (Reuters) – A 71-year-old former contractor at Los Alamos National Laboratory has been sentenced to a year and a day in federal prison after admitting conspiring with her physicist husband to sell U.S. nuclear secrets, prosecutors said…
Ohio clinic to halt surgical abortions due to 2013 state law
CLEVELAND (Reuters) – A suburban Cincinnati clinic will stop performing surgical abortions as a result of a 2013 state law that bars agreements to move women needing emergency care to public hospitals, an attorney for the clinic said on Wednesday.
U.S. attorney general visits Missouri town for meetings on fatal shooting
FERGUSON Mo. (Reuters) – U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder met with community members in Ferguson, Missouri, on Wednesday and vowed a thorough civil rights probe into the fatal police shooting of an unarmed black teenager that has set off 11 nights of …
Oregon authorities look for motive after gunman kills father, tourist
PORTLAND Ore. (Reuters) – Authorities in Oregon sought on Wednesday to fathom why a 34-year-old man shot and killed his father before driving to a coastal camping area where he opened fire on parked vehicles, killing a Michigan tourist asleep in his ca…
California law aims to protect rights of sperm donors, surrogates
SACRAMENTO Calif. (Reuters) – A bill aimed at protecting the parental and adoptive rights of non-traditional families in California was sent to Governor Jerry Brown on Wednesday in an effort to close gaps in a state law that have led to at least one hi…
Court grants gag order in Pittsburgh police shooting case
PITTSBURGH (Reuters) – A court granted a gag order on Wednesday on information related to the 2012 shooting and paralysis of an unarmed black man by a Pittsburgh police officer, prosecutors said, in a move to prevent tainting potential jurors in a crim…
