Two ex-BDO vice chairmen get prison for tax shelter scheme
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Two former vice chairmen of accounting firm BDO Seidman were sentenced to prison on Monday after pleading guilty to engaging in a conspiracy to defraud the United States through the promotion of tax shelters.
LA teacher accused of ordering teens at knife-point to take him for fast food
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Police in Southern California have arrested a high school teacher accused of abducting three students at knife-point and ordering them to drive him to a fast-food outlet, authorities said.
New trial set in Florida teen’s death over loud music dispute
JACKSONVILLE Fla. (Reuters) – A Florida judge has set a retrial date of Sept. 22 for a man facing charges that he murdered a teenager during an argument at a Jacksonville gas station over blaring rap music.
Massachusetts man pleads guilty to voting in New Hampshire primary
BOSTON (Reuters) – New Hampshire’s first-in-the-nation U.S. presidential nominating primary has long drawn activists from around New England who travel into the state to support candidates in rallies and door-to-door visits with voters.
Killers of Las Vegas cops harbored anti-government ideology: police
LAS VEGAS (Reuters) – The couple who shot two Las Vegas police officers to death in a weekend ambush before killing a bystander and themselves in a nearby Wal-Mart harbored anti-law enforcement, anti-government ideologies but are believed to have acted…
Chicago suburban man charged with killing wife, daughter
CHICAGO (Reuters) – Leaving a note saying he was “a failure at everything,” a suburban Chicago man strangled his wife and teenage wheelchair-bound daughter and then tried to slit his wrists, officials said on Monday.
Man killed outside New York bar made famous by TV’s ‘Mob Wives’
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Police searched for two suspects on Monday in the weekend killing of a man outside a New York bar featured on the reality television show “Mob Wives,” officials said.
Wisconsin bodies found in two suitcases are adult women -police
MILWAUKEE (Reuters) – Bodies found in two suitcases in a grassy ditch along a rural southeast Wisconsin road last week were that of two women, police said on Monday.
Florida governor extends in-state tuition to undocumented students
TALLAHASSEE Florida (Reuters) – Florida Governor Rick Scott, who promised a crackdown on illegal immigration four years ago, signed legislation Monday allowing children whose parents came to the United States illegally to pay in-state tuition at Florid…
Vermont to raise minimum wage to $10.50, highest of any U.S. state
BOSTON (Reuters) – Vermont Governor Peter Shumlin on Monday signed a law that will raise the state’s minimum wage to $10.50 an hour by 2018, higher than any other U.S. state
