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.
U.S. man accused of arms dealing, attempted murder in Venezuela
CARACAS (Reuters) – A Venezuelan court ordered a U.S. citizen to remain behind bars on Wednesday for alleged arms trafficking and attempted murder after police arrested the man during a raid on a home in the west of the country.
Supreme Court limits restitution in child pornography case
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled that a man convicted of possessing child pornography is only required to pay a proportion of the total damages that victims can seek in restitution.
U.S. Justice Department announces clemency review of drug offenders
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Justice Department laid out new clemency guidelines on Wednesday that are expected to make thousands of drug offenders eligible for a reduction in the sentences they are currently serving.
Florida man to be executed for 1990 double murder
TALLAHASSEE (Reuters) – A man who killed his cousin and the man’s wife to prevent his cousin from testifying against him in a burglary case is scheduled to die Wednesday evening at Florida State Prison, in Raiford, north Florida.
U.S. factory activity expands in April, pace stalls
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The U.S. manufacturing sector expanded in April though the rate of growth was slightly lower than expected as inventories fell, but factory output growth hit its fastest pace in three years, an industry report showed on Wednesday.
