Jury weighs fraud case against Texas tycoon brothers
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A jury began deliberations on Thursday in the trial of Texas tycoon Samuel Wyly and his late brother, Charles Wyly, whom the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission accuses of engaging in a $550 million civil fraud.
St. Louis police seek owner of drone that crashed into high-rise
(Reuters) – Police are looking for the owner of an unmanned drone that crashed into the highest office building in St. Louis, officials said on Thursday.
Clippers owner Sterling denies being racist: report
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling, who was banned for life from the National Basketball Association after a tape of his racist comments became public, claimed in a new recording he was not a bigot, according to an onlin…
Principal, teachers face criminal charges in Philadelphia test scandal
PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) – A Philadelphia elementary school principal and four teachers were accused of conspiracy and other charges on Thursday, the first criminal counts filed in a test cheating scandal in city schools, authorities said.
Oklahoma stays execution to probe botched lethal injection
OKLAHOMA CITY (Reuters) – Oklahoma’s attorney general has agreed to a six-month stay of execution for a death row inmate whose capital punishment had been temporarily suspended because of a botched execution in April that was widely criticized as cruel…
U.S. appeals court presses Obama administration on contraception
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A U.S. appeals court on Thursday pressed the Obama administration on whether a compromise it reached with religious non-profit groups over contraception coverage required by Obamacare still violates the religious rights of the gr…
Police eye California mountains in hunt for fugitive fire chief
SACRAMENTO, California (Reuters) – Homicide detectives searching for a California fire chief suspected of fatally stabbing his girlfriend turned their attention to the state’s massive mountain ranges on Thursday, saying he may be hiding out along trail…
White House under lockdown again after items tossed over fence
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Two individuals threw items over the White House fence on Thursday, triggering the second lockdown at the president’s residence this week.
Dover Air Force Base in Delaware lifts lockdown
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A U.S. Air Force Base in Delaware lifted a lockdown on Thursday after declaring personnel safe following a report of a suspicious person on base, a military spokesman said.
Little help for a million Californians on wells in historic drought
FORT BRAGG, California (Reuters) – Michael Holmes got by at his rural home near California’s rugged northern coast on a disability pension and water from a decades-old well — until the well dried up.
