San Francisco sues landlords who evicted tenants for Airbnb
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – The city of San Francisco sued two landlords on Wednesday for allegedly evicting tenants to rent out rooms on such websites as Airbnb, opening a new front in a controversy over increasingly popular home-rental services.
Washington county delays decision on building ban after deadly mudslide
OLYMPIA, Washington (Reuters) – A Washington state county where a mudslide killed at least 41 people last month delayed a decision on Wednesday on a proposed ban on construction in landslide-prone areas over concerns it could hamper rebuilding efforts….
Ex-L.A. sheriff deputies accused of planting guns at pot dispensary
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Two ex-Los Angeles County Sheriff’s deputies accused of planting guns at a marijuana dispensary to justify an arrest have been charged with conspiracy and perjury, prosecutors said on Wednesday.
U.S. soldier convicted in WikiLeaks case granted name change
(Reuters) – Former U.S. soldier Bradley Manning, who is serving 35 years in prison for turning over classified files to WikiLeaks, can exchange the name Bradley for Chelsea to reflect her desire to be treated as a woman, a judge in Kansas ruled on Wedn…
Lawyers for Colorado theater shooter to appeal second sanity exam
DENVER (Reuters) – Lawyers defending the man charged with murdering 12 Colorado moviegoers in 2012 will appeal a judge’s ruling that he undergo a second sanity examination, court documents made public on Wednesday show.
Stowaway slept in wheel well of plane at California airport, FBI says
(Reuters) – A teenage stowaway who survived a flight to Hawaii in the wheel well of a passenger plane told investigators he spent the night sleeping in the jet’s cramped compartment at a California airport before the flight took off, an FBI official sa…
Jailed U.S. contractor in Cuba warns of terminal hunger strike
HAVANA (Reuters) – The lawyer for jailed U.S. contractor Alan Gross told the press in Havana on Wednesday that his client planned to return from Cuba to his family within the year, dead or alive, and called on the Obama administration to do more to obt…
Connecticut police charge man in Yale gunman hoax
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A Connecticut man was charged Wednesday with threatening and reckless endangerment in connection with a hoax telephone call to Yale University last year claiming a gunman was going to shoot people at the Ivy League school, police s…
U.S. may charge ex-Blackwater guard with murder for Iraq massacre
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Justice Department is considering charging a former Blackwater Worldwide security guard with murder over his alleged role in a 2007 massacre of unarmed civilians in Baghdad, a federal prosecutor said on Wednesday.
NYPD Twitter campaign backfires, thousands of negative tweets
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A New York Police Department campaign to burnish its image via social media instead produced a flood of pictures of apparent police brutality and tweets critical of the force being shared at a rate of thousands an hour.
