Justice Department says L.A. County jails failing suicidal inmates
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – The Department of Justice has determined that Los Angeles County’s jails violate the Constitution by failing to provide adequate mental health services to suicidal inmates, the latest black mark to the nation’s already troubled …
Colorado passes nation’s first law regulating rides-on-demand
DENVER (Reuters) – Colorado has become the first state to pass legislation regulating companies such as Uber and others that let the public hail rides from drivers via smartphone apps.
U.S. corrects Keystone study estimate of rail deaths, other errors
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The State Department on Friday corrected several errors it made in a key study evaluating the impact of the proposed Keystone XL pipeline, including a understatement of how many people could be killed on railroad tracks if the pr…
Wisconsin ex-official’s law license suspended over sexual conduct
(Reuters) – The Wisconsin Supreme Court on Friday suspended the law license of a lawyer accused of making sexual overtures to women while serving as a district attorney, including the victim in a domestic abuse case that he was looking to prosecute.
No charges for Michigan man who drove across U.S. with corpse
(Reuters) – A man who completed a cross country drive to Michigan from Arizona with a dead woman in his van will not face charges for failing to report her death immediately, police in suburban Detroit said on Friday.
Two bodies found in suitcases along Wisconsin rural road
MILWAUKEE (Reuters) – Police found two bodies in separate suitcases in a grassy ditch along a road in southeastern Wisconsin, authorities said on Friday.
Man who wounded deputy at Georgia courthouse dies in shootout
ATLANTA (Reuters) – A man armed with an assault rifle and explosives who drove up to a courthouse in the north Georgia town of Cumming on Friday and shot and wounded a sheriff’s deputy in the leg was killed in a shootout with authorities, officials sai…
10-year-olds among students making bomb threats in Connecticut: officials
MILFORD Conn. (Reuters) – Children as young as 10 years old have been caught making bomb threats to local schools in Bristol, Connecticut, that have cost the city tens of thousands of dollars, authorities said.
N.Y. police charge man in elevator stabbing of two children
NEW YORK (Reuters) – New York police have charged a man in the weekend stabbing of two children, one of them fatally, in the elevator of a Brooklyn housing project, officials said.
Wild mushrooms entice smugglers to fire-ravaged California forest
GROVELAND Calif. (Reuters) – Smugglers in northern California’s fire-ravaged Stanislaus National Forest are sneaking out pricey contraband – not marijuana this time, but a favorite delicacy of foodies: the luscious morel mushroom. 
