Trade group, franchisees sue to block Seattle minimum wage hike
(Reuters) – A trade group sued the city of Seattle on Wednesday, seeking to block a sharp hike in the minimum wage to $15 an hour over the next seven years on the grounds that it unfairly favors small businesses over larger employers and franchises.
New psych ward to open on California’s death row : report
SACRAMENTO Calif. (Reuters) – Under pressure to improve mental health treatment for inmates in California’s massive prison system, officials plan to build a new psychiatric ward to provide inpatient mental health care for prisoners on death row, accord…
Maine man, 77, pleads insanity in 2012 double murder over snow shoveling
PORTLAND Maine (Reuters) – A 75-year-old man who police say shot and killed two teenagers in Maine after a dispute over shoveling snow in a parking lot will plead not guilty by reason of insanity, according to the state attorney general’s office.
Embalming fluid tanker crash prompts Virginia evacuation
(Reuters) – A crash involving a tank truck carrying 8,000 gallons of embalming fluid forced the evacuation of almost 20 homes in southwest Virginia on Wednesday, authorities said.
Wisconsin girl in ‘Slenderman’ stabbing to have competency test
WAUKESHA Wis. (Reuters) – One of two 12-year-old Wisconsin girls accused of luring a friend into the woods and stabbing her repeatedly to please a fictional Internet character will undergo a mental competency exam, a circuit court commissioner ordered …
Two brothers charged in case of missing Tennessee student
(Reuters) – Two Tennessee brothers have been arrested and charged as accessories in connection with the 2011 disappearance of a nursing student in a crime for which two other men already have been charged with murder, authorities said on Wednesday.
Guantanamo panel to weigh Kuwaiti prisoner’s transfer
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A Kuwaiti inmate at the Guantanamo Bay prison faces a hearing this week on whether he should be transferred home, with the Pentagon saying on Wednesday that he likely had ties to Osama bin Laden and his lawyer contending he was n…
Teen gunman in Oregon school shooting got weapons from home
TROUTDALE Ore. (Reuters) – The teenage gunman who killed a classmate at an Oregon high school on Tuesday was armed with a military-style rifle and a semiautomatic pistol obtained from his home and lacked any known connection to his victim, police said …
Alabama woman charged for asking fake Facebook friend to kill family
(Reuters) – An Alabama woman was charged for trying to enlist a Facebook friend, who in fact was her aunt posing as a man, to kill her family, police and prosecutors said on Wednesday.
Lawyers for accused Boston Marathon bomber to seek to move trial
BOSTON (Reuters) – Attorneys for accused Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev plan to ask a judge to move his trial outside of Boston, they said in court papers on Wednesday, adding they needed more time to prepare their arguments.
