Motorist slams car into crowd near Texas SXSW festival, 2 killed
AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) – A driver evading a police sobriety checkpoint plowed into a crowd at high speed outside a nightclub in Austin on Thursday, killing two people and injuring 23 near the South by Southwest festival, police said.
Ohio man sentenced to five years in prison for enslaving woman and child
CLEVELAND (Reuters) – An Ohio man was sentenced on Thursday to five years in federal prison for his role in holding captive a cognitively disabled woman and her child and forcing the woman to perform manual labor and eat dog food, prosecutors said.
Houston father shoots and kills boy in teen daughter’s room
HOUSTON (Reuters) – A Houston father shot and killed a teenage boy he found in the room of his 16-year-old daughter in the pre-dawn hours of Thursday, the Harris County Sheriff’s Office said.
Some pot convictions can be reversed, Colorado court rules
DENVER (Reuters) – Some people found guilty of possessing marijuana in Colorado at the time the state legalized recreational pot may have their convictions thrown out, a state appellate court ruled Thursday, though legal experts said the decision would…
New York City gas explosion subject of federal probe
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Federal safety authorities launched an investigation on Thursday into a gas explosion that caused the collapse a day earlier of two New York City apartment buildings, killing seven people and injuring dozens of others.
British Columbia wants changes in Columbia River pact with U.S
VANCOUVER (Reuters) – The Canadian province of British Columbia said on Thursday it wants to keep a 50-year-old Canada-U.S. pact on Columbia River flood control and power generation in place, but it urged the federal government to push for what it call…
Obama’s overtime pay push seen reshaping U.S. payrolls, courts
(Reuters) – If the Obama administration follows through on overtime pay reforms, businesses will have to realign payroll policies for millions of salaried workers and a flurry of lawsuits could follow asking courts to clarify the new standards.
Maryland women indicted in ‘exorcism’ slayings of children
ROCKVILLE, Maryland (Reuters) – Two Maryland women accused of killing two children they believed were possessed by demons were indicted on Thursday on multiple counts of murder, authorities said.
Vampire-fanged Utah trucker faces charges of kidnapping women
SALT LAKE CITY (Reuters) – A Utah truck driver known for wearing vampire-fanged dentures is facing federal criminal charges over accusations he sexually abused two women who authorities said were held captive in the man’s semi-tractor trailer as he tra…
Malian pleads not guilty in killing of U.S. diplomat in 2000
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A Malian national pleaded not guilty in a New York federal court on Thursday to charges of assassinating an American diplomat in the Republic of Niger in Western Africa and attempting to kill a U.S. Marine who tried to intervene.
