Suspect arrested after school lockdown in NY’s Nassau County
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A suspected gunman who caused the lockdown of four schools on New York’s Long Island on Tuesday has been arrested and the lockdown has been lifted, police said.
Skier killed in Colorado avalanche, tenth U.S. death this season
DENVER (Reuters) – The body of a Colorado skier killed in an avalanche was recovered on Tuesday, the second death in the state from snow slides in as many days, and the tenth in the United States this winter season.
New Jersey traffic jam victims ask Christie to resign, if he knew
FORT LEE, New Jersey (Reuters) – Valerie Howard-Fadul recalled feeling “excruciating” pain after the anesthesia wore off, when her usual 45-minute drive home across the Hudson River after a medical eye treatment stretched into five hours in the now inf…
U.S. can keep Guantanamo hunger strikers alive by force: court
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A U.S. appeals court declined on Tuesday to halt the forced feeding of hunger strikers in Guantanamo Bay but ruled that the prisoners have the right to sue over the procedure and other aspects of how the U.S. military treats them…
Doctor in Delaware waterboarding trial admits injuring stepdaughter
GEORGETOWN, Delaware (Reuters) – A Delaware pediatrician accused of waterboarding his 11-year-old stepdaughter admitted in court on Tuesday to injuring the girl by dragging her over a gravel driveway in what he described as a moment of carelessness.
UAW’s future hinges on vote at Volkswagen’sTennessee plant
CHATTANOOGA, Tennessee (Reuters) – If the United Auto Workers wins this week’s historic election at Volkswagen’s three-year-old Chattanooga factory, the union could use the victory as a springboard to organize other foreign-owned plants in the South an…
California man gets 22 years in keeping relative as sex slave
MARTINEZ, California (Reuters) – A Northern California man who pleaded guilty to keeping a young female relative as a sex slave, repeatedly raping her over a 15-year period and forcing her to stay in a backyard shed, was sentenced on Tuesday to 22 year…
Lawsuit: New York state shortchanged city schools during recession
NEW YORK (Reuters) – An education advocacy group sued the state of New York on Tuesday for more than $1 billion in promised school funding, saying the state had failed to live up to its responsibility to offer students a “sound basic education” due to …
Md. teen among first openly gay Scouts to achieve top rank after ban lift
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A 17-year-old Maryland boy has become one of the first openly gay Boy Scouts to achieve the Boy Scouts of America’s highest rank since the organization reversed its ban on gay youth nearly six weeks ago.
Accused shooter takes stand in Florida loud music murder trial
JACKSONVILLE, Florida (Reuters) – A Florida man who shot and killed a teenager during an argument over loud rap music told jurors on Tuesday that he did “nothing wrong,” having acted in self-defense because he thought he was “going to be killed.”
