Lance Armstrong must face U.S. doping lawsuit, judge rules
(Reuters) – A federal judge on Thursday rejected Lance Armstrong’s bid to dismiss a whistleblower lawsuit claiming that he and his former cycling team, which the U.S. Postal Service had sponsored, defrauded the government in a scheme to use banned, per…
Colorado judge rules ski resort not immune from lawsuit in avalanche death
DENVER (Reuters) – A Colorado judge has ruled that a ski resort operator is not immune from a wrongful death lawsuit filed by the parents of a 13-year-old boy who was killed in an avalanche on Vail Mountain in 2012.
Los Angeles serial killer found guilty of four more strangling murders
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – A serial killer facing the death penalty for murdering 10 women in Los Angeles was found guilty by a jury on Thursday of four more counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of women he strangled between 1987 and 1997, prosecut…
Seattle sheriff’s deputy arrested for drugs, theft, prostitution
SEATTLE (Reuters) – A sheriff’s deputy in Seattle was arrested and charged on Thursday with drug dealing, stealing from his department and acting as his wife’s pimp, authorities said.
Authorities scale back search for missing Alaska family
JUNEAU Alaska (Reuters) – Local and federal authorities have scaled back a three-week search for a missing Alaska couple and their two small children who were last heard from in late May, police said.
U.S.-born share of Hispanic workforce eclipses immigrants
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – For the first time in nearly 20 years, most Hispanic workers in the United States are native-born citizens and not immigrants due mainly to waning migration from Latin America, a Pew Research Center study released on Thursday sh…
Former Utah drug cop charged with manslaughter in 2012 shooting
SALT LAKE CITY (Reuters) – Prosecutors charged a former Utah police detective with manslaughter on Thursday in the shooting death of a woman during a botched undercover drug operation in 2012, authorities said.
Lance Armstrong must face U.S. doping lawsuit, judge rules
(Reuters) – A U.S. judge on Thursday rejected Lance Armstrong’s bid to dismiss a federal whistleblower lawsuit claiming that he and his former cycling team, which had been sponsored by the U.S. Postal Service, had defrauded the government through a sch…
FBI investigating possible anthrax exposure at U.S. lab
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The FBI is working with the U.S Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to examine government scientists’ possible exposure to anthrax at a lab in Atlanta, but has found no evidence of wrongdoing, a spokesman for the agency said on Thursday.
Hot grits hurled at man in Florida leads to attempted murder charge
TAMPA Fla. (Reuters) – A Florida man faces murder charges after trying to settle a fight with his neighbor by throwing a scalding pot of a Southern food specialty – hot, greasy grits.
