Utah’s ‘mountain man’ survivalist sentenced to prison after guilty pleas
SALT LAKE CITY (Reuters) – A Utah survivalist known as the “mountain man” who evaded police for nearly six years while looting remote cabins for weapons and supplies was sentenced on Monday to more than 10 years in prison after pleading guilty to multi…
Hundreds more migrant children shipped to Arizona from Texas
PHOENIX (Reuters) – Hundreds of children who crossed the U.S. border illegally were transported to Arizona from Texas over the weekend as border agents face a surge of unauthorized Central American migrants entering the country, authorities said on Mon…
American detained in North Korea was on vacation tour, lawyer says
AUSTIN Texas (Reuters) – The U.S. citizen detained in North Korea, Jeffrey Fowle, 56, is a father of three with a passion for adventure who was in the country as part of a vacation tour, his lawyer said on Monday.
Citi loses bid to stop L.A. mortgage discrimination suit
(Reuters) – A lawsuit by the City of Los Angeles accusing Citigroup Inc of mortgage discrimination can go forward, a federal judge ruled on Monday, turning down the bank’s motion to dismiss the case stemming from last decade’s real estate boom.
Killers of Las Vegas cops harbored anti-government ideology
LAS VEGAS (Reuters) – A married couple who shot dead two Las Vegas police officers in a weekend pizza parlor ambush harbored anti-government and white supremacist ideology and threw a swastika on the body of one of the officers they gunned down, police…
Philadelphia Catholic Church clears priest, ends abuse claims review
PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) – The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Philadelphia has cleared a priest accused of sexually abusing minors and let him remain in the clergy as it wrapped up an internal review of 26 priests put on leave after a 2011 grand jury repo…
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.
