Kennedy cousin tries to stop tapes being played in murder retrial
STAMFORD Conn. (Reuters) – Michael Skakel, a Kennedy cousin awaiting retrial after serving 11 years in prison for the murder of a teenage girl in Connecticut, wants to stop incriminating audiotapes from being used again as evidence, according to court …
Excommunicated Mormon feminist appeals ejection from faith
SALT LAKE CITY (Reuters) – A Mormon feminist excommunicated from her religion after advocating for the ordination of women has appealed the ejection in a letter to the same panel of male church leaders who decided to oust her from the largely patriarch…
New arrest videos add to scrutiny of N.Y. police use of choke holds
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Relatives of Eric Garner, who died soon after New York police put him in a choke hold, will ask federal prosecutors this week for an investigation as new videos emerged of a second recent case of police apparently using the banned …
Too few U.S. youth getting vaccine for sexually transmitted virus: CDC
ATLANTA (Reuters) – More U.S. adolescents are receiving vaccines against the sexually transmitted virus that causes cervical and other types of cancer but vaccination rates for the infection remain too low, federal health officials said on Thursday.
Minnesota man asked to leave Southwest flight after critical tweet
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BNSF train carrying North Dakota oil derails in Seattle
(Reuters) – A Burlington Northern Santa Fe train carrying crude oil derailed as it left a railyard in north Seattle on Thursday, but there were no reports of a spill or injuries, BNSF said in a statement.
Storm kills three, injures 20 at Virginia campground
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A likely tornado tore through an eastern Virginia campground on Thursday, killing up to three people and injuring as many as 20 as it overturned vehicles and downed trees, officials said.
NY woman accused of murder after neighbor’s dismembered body found
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A Brooklyn woman faces murder charges in the killing of her neighbor whose dismembered body was discovered in New York near sites where other severed human limbs were found this month, police said on Thursday.
Minnesota man asked to leave Southwest flight after critical tweet
(Reuters) – A Minnesota man and his two sons were asked to leave a Southwest Airlines flight after the man sent a tweet complaining about being treated rudely by a gate agent.
Alabama man sues, claiming penis amputated instead of circumcised
(Reuters) – An Alabama man who went in to a hospital last month for a circumcision awoke after surgery to find his penis had been amputated, his lawyer said on Thursday.
