Feds: Police misconduct rampant in Newark, N.J., city OKs monitor
NEWARK N.J. (Reuters) – Federal investigators found police repeatedly violated civil rights in Newark, New Jersey’s largest city, and recommended an independent monitor to oversee changes, the U.S. Justice Department said on Tuesday.
Maryland parents charged with locking autistic adult sons in basement
ANNAPOLIS Md. (Reuters) – Police in Maryland have charged a couple with abuse after discovering their 22-year-old twin autistic sons had been locked in a dark, bare basement room for six years, according to police and court records.Police found the men…
Miami restaurant, survivor of desegregation and riots, to close
MIAMI (Reuters) – After more than half a century, Jumbo’s, famous for its fried shrimp and conch, and one of the first Miami restaurants to desegregate in the late 1960s, is closing this week as the site is sold to a developer of affordable housing.
Thieves steal air conditioners from rural Tennessee churches
NASHVILLE Tenn. (Reuters) – Thieves have been stealing central air conditioning units from rural Tennessee churches during a scorching summer heat wave, and they’ll face hell fire for eternity if they’re not caught here on earth, a church official said…
San Antonio makes history as it names black woman mayor
SAN ANTONIO (Reuters) – San Antonio’s city council elected Ivy Taylor the new mayor of the seventh most populous U.S. city, making the Yale graduate the first African American to hold the post.
Fourth bacterial infection death reported at South Carolina hospital
CHARLESTON S.C. (Reuters) – A patient who contracted a rare bacterial infection during surgery at a South Carolina hospital died last week, bringing the total deaths to four since the outbreak was first suspected in May, a hospital spokeswoman said on …
Groups file complaint against Texas city that banned refugee housing
(Reuters) – Immigration rights groups filed a federal complaint on Tuesday against a Texas city they said violated civil rights laws by placing a ban on housing and processing facilities for Central Americans seeking refugee status after fleeing violen…
NY judge throws out lawsuit by Empire State Building investors
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A New York state judge has thrown out a lawsuit in which longtime investors in the Empire State Building claimed they were shortchanged out of hundreds of millions of dollars by the real estate magnates who took the iconic skyscrap…
Jury to weigh murder in pig mask stabbing of ‘messy’ ex-wife
MORRISTOWN N.J. (Reuters) – A prosecutor on Tuesday held up the rubber pig mask found on the face of a woman stabbed 84 times and told the jury in the murder trial of the victim’s ex-husband it showed his contempt for the woman he called a messy housek…
Paterno’s son and other ex-coach sue Penn State for lost careers
HARRISBURG Pa. (Reuters) – Two former assistant football coaches at Penn State University, including the son of disgraced former head coach Joe Paterno, are suing the school for actions they say wrecked their careers in the wake of the child sex-abuse …
