No charges for snowboarder who triggered killer Montana avalanche
(Reuters) – A snowboarder who inadvertently triggered a deadly avalanche that engulfed a Montana home in February will not face charges for riding a mountain slope that was closed to the public at the time, prosecutors said on Friday.
US judge to strike Ohio ban on recognizing out-of-state gay nuptials
COLUMBUS, Ohio (Reuters) – A federal judge said on Friday that Ohio’s ban on recognizing the marriages of same-sex couples wed outside the state was unconstitutional and would be struck down later this month.
Detroit leaders decry beating of driver who hit, tried to aid boy
(Reuters) – Detroit’s mayor and city council president on Friday called for calm and condemned the severe beating that bystanders gave to a motorist who stopped to help a 10-year-old boy he had struck with his vehicle.
Two drug tunnels, with rail systems, found at U.S.-Mexico border
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – U.S. federal agents have uncovered two drug-smuggling tunnels underneath the U.S.-Mexico border, both surfacing in San Diego-area warehouses and equipped with rail systems for moving contraband, officials said on Friday.
Potential witness in terrorism trial does not want to testify in U.S.
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A former al Qaeda operative in Britain told a U.S. judge on Friday that he feared he would be arrested if he traveled to the United States to testify for the prosecution in the upcoming trial of the one-eyed, handless Muslim cleric…
Operator who crashed train at Chicago’s O’Hare airport fired
(Reuters) – Chicago transit officials on Friday fired a train operator who dozed off and did not wake up until cars jumped the end of the track at O’Hare International Airport and ran part-way up an escalator and stairs, a spokeswoman said.
Bond manager featured in ‘The Big Short’ breaks down on stand
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Wing Chau, an investment adviser made infamous in the “The Big Short,” a best-selling book about the financial crisis, wept on the witness stand during his administrative trial on Friday before yelling, “Shame on you!” at a lawyer …
Chinese national indicted in US over exports to Iran
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A Chinese citizen faces U.S. criminal charges that he conspired to export to Iran products that could be used in that country’s nuclear program, the U.S. Justice Department said on Friday.
U.S. reports three million Medicaid enrollments under Obamacare
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Three million lower-income Americans have enrolled in the Medicaid program for the poor so far during the rollout of U.S. President Barack Obama’s healthcare reform law, the administration announced on Friday.
Mom in drugged breast-milk murder of baby gets 20 years in prison
CHARLESTON, South Carolina (Reuters) – A South Carolina mother who gave her infant daughter a lethal dose of morphine via her breast milk was sentenced on Friday to 20 years in prison, a prosecutor said.
