Parents of Texas ‘affluenza’ teen to pay part of state treatment
FORT WORTH, Texas (Reuters) – A Texas judge, who was criticized for sentencing a wealthy Texas teen to probation after he killed four people while driving drunk, on Friday ordered his parents to pay a small part of the cost of his treatment at a state-…
Detroit driver awake nine days after mob beating
(Reuters) – A truck driver beaten unconscious by a Detroit mob when he tried to assist a child he accidentally hit with his pickup nine days ago has begun to regain consciousness and is breathing on his own, his daughter said on Friday.
Arkansas to appeal ruling on abortion restriction law
TEXARKANA, Arkansas (Reuters) – Arkansas Attorney General Dustin McDaniel said on Friday he would appeal a federal judge’s decision striking down a state law that bans most abortions starting at 12 weeks of pregnancy, one of the most stringent such sta…
Texas woman sentenced to life in stiletto-heel killing
HOUSTON (Reuters) – A Texas jury sentenced a woman on Friday to life in prison for stabbing her boyfriend to death with the 5-1/2-inch stiletto heel of her shoe during an argument after an alcohol-fueled night out last year.
Investigators focus on wreckage in deadly California crash
SACRAMENTO, California (Reuters) – A probe into a California crash that killed 10 people focused on Friday on whether the truck driver lost consciousness, his vehicle had mechanical failure or another collision caused him to swerve across a median and …
Detroit closer to exiting bankruptcy after swaps deal approval
DETROIT (Reuters) – Detroit’s plan to get out of bankruptcy cleared a major hurdle on Friday when a U.S. Bankruptcy Court judge approved the cash-strapped city’s third attempt at settling costly interest-rate swap agreements with two investment banks.
U.S. asks if accused Boston bomber’s lawyers to claim mental illness
BOSTON (Reuters) – The U.S. team prosecuting accused Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev asked defense attorneys on Friday to notify them by next month if they plan to make the 20-year-old defendant’s mental faculties an issue at trial.
Police link 12 vehicle shootings in Kansas City area
KANSAS CITY, Missouri (Reuters) – Police believe a dozen shooting incidents, in which three people have been injured over the past month mostly on highways and roads in Kansas City and surrounding areas, are connected, authorities said on Friday.
Reporters who broke Snowden story return to U.S. for first time
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras, the U.S. journalists who reported on spy agency analyst Edward Snowden’s leaks exposing mass government surveillance, returned to the United States on Friday for the first time since revealing the…
New Mexico collegiate bullrider killed in rodeo practice
ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico (Reuters) – A 20-year-old college bullrider has been killed in an accident during a practice session at his university’s rodeo arena after being thrown from a 2,000-pound bucking bull and then stepped on by the animal, a univers…
