Ex-Guatemalan drug kingpin pleads guilty to U.S. charges
(Reuters) – The patriarch of a Guatemalan family linked by authorities to Mexico’s Sinaloa drug cartel pleaded guilty on Monday to conspiring to import more than 450 kilograms (992 pounds) of Colombian cocaine into the United States.
Second pot shop opens in Seattle amid slow start to legal sales
SEATTLE (Reuters) – Seattle’s second retail marijuana store opened on Monday to a long line of customers, more than a month after Washington became the second U.S. state to legalize the recreational sale of cannabis to adults.
New Orleans police superintendent steps down
NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) – New Orleans Police Superintendent Ronal Serpas announced his retirement on Monday, bringing to a close a four-year tenure marked by a drop in murders, a reduction in the number of officers on patrol and federal demands to reform…
Wisconsin ex-policeman pleads not guilty in suitcase corpse case
KENOSHA Wis. (Reuters) – A former Wisconsin police officer entered a plea of not guilty to a charge of first-degree homicide in a case where he is accused of choking a woman to death, stuffing her body in a suitcase and dumping the luggage on a rural r…
Colorado woman in court on charges of abusing seven-year-old daughter
DENVER (Reuters) – A Colorado woman appeared in court on Monday for the first time after being charged with abusing her 7-year-old daughter who suffered from seizures and was unable to walk or speak when found living amid squalor, prosecutors said.
Defense testimony starts in corruption trial of Virginia ex-governor, wife
RICHMOND Va. (Reuters) – The defense in the corruption trial of former Virginia Governor Robert McDonnell and his wife, Maureen, began on Monday with testimony intended to show the couple’s marriage was so broken they could not have conspired to illega…
Republican-turned-independent former Senator Jeffords dies
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – James Jeffords, a soft-spoken Vermonter whose defection from the Republican Party in 2001 created an unprecedented power shift in the U.S. Senate and gave Democrats control of the chamber for 18 months, died on Monday at age 80, …
Husband of U.S. missionary with Ebola visits her after quarantine ends
WINSTON-SALEM N.C. (Reuters) – The husband of an American missionary stricken with Ebola has finished a health monitoring period without showing signs of the disease and was able to visit his wife at the Atlanta hospital where she is being treated, a m…
Weekend shootings in NYC leave two dead, 21 injured
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Two people were killed and 21 injured in more than a dozen separate shootings in New York City over the weekend, police said on Monday.
Husband of U.S. missionary with Ebola visits her after quarantine ends
WINSTON-SALEM N.C. (Reuters) – The husband of an American missionary stricken with Ebola has finished a health monitoring period without showing signs of the disease and was able to visit his wife at the Atlanta hospital where she is being treated, a m…
