California utility attack should prompt U.S. safety review: Democrats
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Senate Democrats urged U.S. power regulators on Friday to consider whether additional safety standards were needed to protect power plants after a sniper attack disrupted operations at a California utility last year.
Three convicted of some charges tied to 2012 Chicago NATO plot
CHICAGO (Reuters) – Three men accused of plotting to attack high-profile targets during a 2012 NATO summit in Chicago were convicted by a jury Friday on mob action and arson charges, but acquitted on terrorism-related charges, a setback for prosecutors…
Senators ask White House for propane shortage relief
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The federal government must continue to offer assistance to consumers facing spikes in propane prices due to bitterly cold winter weather and supply shortages, a bipartisan coalition of U.S. senators said on Friday.
Florida teen in loud music murder trial was unarmed, witnesses say
JACKSONVILLE, Florida (Reuters) – A black teenager shot dead by a middle-aged white man in Florida after an argument over loud rap music, was unarmed and never threatened his assailant, a court heard on Friday.
Arizona judge rejects bid to spare murderer Jodi Arias from death
PHOENIX (Reuters) – An Arizona judge has rejected a bid by convicted murderer Jodi Arias to be spared the death penalty in the 2008 slaying of her ex-boyfriend, according to court papers made public on Friday.
Wisconsin baby’s aunt charged in kidnap of 6-day-old nephew
(Reuters) – A Colorado woman who police believe faked a pregnancy was charged on Friday with the kidnapping in Wisconsin of her 6-day-old nephew, who was found a day later behind a gas station in Iowa, federal prosecutors said.
U.S. missionary said moved back to North Korean labor camp
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A U.S. missionary being held in North Korea was moved from a hospital back to a labor camp last month on the same day he made a public appeal for Washington to help get him home, a U.S. State Department official said on Friday, c…
Three convicted of some charges tied to 2012 Chicago NATO plot
CHICAGO (Reuters) – Three men accused of plotting to attack high-profile targets during a 2012 NATO summit in Chicago were convicted by a jury Friday on mob action and arson charges, but acquitted on terrorism-related charges.
Despite coarse comment, Nuland no stranger to power of words
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Victoria Nuland, the top U.S. diplomat for Europe who angered some of the very people she is supposed to cultivate by crudely disparaging the European Union in a leaked phone call on America’s Ukraine policy, is no stranger to th…
Two L.A. sheriff’s deputies charged in jail beating amid ongoing probe
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Two Los Angeles County Sheriff’s deputies accused of punching, kicking and pepper-spraying an inmate, then falsely claiming that he attacked them, have been indicted on federal charges amid an ongoing probe of the country’s larg…
