NY jury to decide: bizarre sex fantasy or real murder-kidnap plot?
NEW YORK (Reuters) – For the two men charged with hatching a kidnap conspiracy on a website catering to violent sexual fetishes, their own Internet musings about abducting and brutalizing women are so outlandish, they only bolster their defense, their …
No charges for Minnesota archbishop accused of inappropriate touching
MINNEAPOLIS (Reuters) – No charges will be brought against Archbishop John Nienstedt, leader of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis, who was accused by a boy of inappropriately touching his buttocks during a group photo session, …
Louisiana man fined $600 after drunken fight with wife aboard flight
GEORGE TOWN, Cayman Islands (Reuters) – A judge in the Cayman Islands fined a Louisiana man $600 on Tuesday for forcing a Delta Air Lines flight to make an emergency landing after he got into a drunken argument with his wife aboard the plane on their a…
U.S. president sweats over sweaters during NY shopping stop
NEW YORK (Reuters) – President Barack Obama took on a daunting task on Tuesday: shopping for clothes for his wife and daughters during a brief stop at a Gap store while raising money for Democrats in New York.
White supremacist woman pleads guilty in Pacific Northwest killing spree
(Reuters) – A white supremacist woman accused of killing four people during a violent road trip across the Pacific Northwest with her boyfriend pleaded guilty on Tuesday to racketeering in a deal that could send her to prison for life, federal prosecut…
Louisiana man set to walk free after nearly three decades on death row
NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) – A Louisiana man who has spent nearly three decades on death row was slated to walk free on Tuesday, after prosecutors asked a judge to set aside his first-degree murder conviction and death sentence, citing new evidence in the c…
U.S. Air Force looking to revamp, cut costs of space programs
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., March 11 – To tackle a rising demand for space-based surveillance in an era of flat budgets, the U.S. military is looking at smaller satellites, cheaper rockets and partnerships, the head of Air Force Space Command said on Tuesday…
Defense lawyer tries to discredit US witness against bin Laden relative
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A lawyer for Suleiman Abu Ghaith, a son-in-law of Osama bin Laden on trial for conspiring to kill Americans, tried to discredit a U.S. government witness on Tuesday, portraying the former jihadi as more interested in saving himself…
Philadelphia archdiocese limits tuition aid to abuse victims’ children
PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) – The Archdiocese of Philadelphia will no longer take applications for a small program that pays the Catholic school tuition of children of victims of sexual abuse by priests, saying that the money could be used to benefit victim…
Up to $600,000 taken from Houston’s Lakewood megachurch safe
HOUSTON (Reuters) – About $200,000 in cash and twice that amount in checks and written credit card information were taken from a safe at the Lakewood Church led by televangelist Pastor Joel Osteen, police said Tuesday.
