U.S. asks if accused Boston bomber’s lawyers to claim mental illness
BOSTON (Reuters) – The U.S. team prosecuting accused Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev asked defense attorneys on Friday to notify them by next month if they plan to make the 20-year-old defendant’s mental faculties an issue at trial.
Police link 12 vehicle shootings in Kansas City area
KANSAS CITY, Missouri (Reuters) – Police believe a dozen shooting incidents, in which three people have been injured over the past month mostly on highways and roads in Kansas City and surrounding areas, are connected, authorities said on Friday.
Reporters who broke Snowden story return to U.S. for first time
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras, the U.S. journalists who reported on spy agency analyst Edward Snowden’s leaks exposing mass government surveillance, returned to the United States on Friday for the first time since revealing the…
New Mexico collegiate bullrider killed in rodeo practice
ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico (Reuters) – A 20-year-old college bullrider has been killed in an accident during a practice session at his university’s rodeo arena after being thrown from a 2,000-pound bucking bull and then stepped on by the animal, a univers…
Court upholds ruling against SeaWorld over trainer safety
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A U.S. appeals court on Friday upheld a federal occupational safety agency’s finding against SeaWorld Entertainment Inc following the workplace death of one of its killer whale trainers.
Individuals targeted as San Francisco tech money protests intensify
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Demonstrations against the grip on San Francisco held by wealthy technology workers took a personal turn on Friday with protesters taking aim at a Google lawyer they say personifies the tensions being stirred by abundant tech …
Charge dropped for coach in Ohio teen party rape case
CLEVELAND (Reuters) – Prosecutors will drop a misdemeanor charge against an Ohio wrestling coach accused of failing to report a suspected rape of a teenage girl by high school football players at a party, authorities said Friday.
Pediatrician gets prison for ‘waterboarding’ stepdaughter
GEORGETOWN, Delaware (Reuters) – A prominent Delaware pediatrician and best-selling author who punished his 11-year-old stepdaughter using a form of waterboarding was sentenced to three years in prison on Friday.
Montana bride who pushed husband off cliff appeals 30-year sentence
(Reuters) – A Montana bride who pleaded guilty to pushing her husband off a cliff to his death at Glacier National Park is appealing her prison sentence, arguing the judge improperly denied her request to withdraw her plea after a deal with prosecutors…
Texas Medicaid holds off on proposed limits for Gilead hepatitis drug
(Reuters) – Texas is reconsidering whether to impose strict limits on Gilead Sciences’ $84,000 hepatitis C treatment for patients on the state’s Medicaid health plan for the poor, at the urging of outside advisers, a state official said on Friday.
