Confused Japanese tourists led Utah police on high-speed chase
SALT LAKE CITY (Reuters) – A Japanese couple on vacation in Utah was pulled from a rental car at gunpoint near the Arizona border over the weekend after leading police on an accidental high-speed chase because they didn’t understand U.S. traffic laws.
Top prosecutor in benchmark-rigging probes to leave Justice Department
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Mythili Raman, the top criminal prosecutor at the Department of Justice, is planning to leave the agency next month, wrapping up a year overseeing high-profile investigations into global market manipulation.
Florida man to be executed for trooper’s 1992 pipe-bomb death
TALLAHASSEE, Florida (Reuters) – A South Florida drug dealer, who was convicted in the pipe-bomb killing of a state highway patrolman during a traffic stop 22 years ago, is scheduled to die by lethal injection on Wednesday.
Sony to shutter 20 retail stores in the U.S.
(Reuters) – Sony Corp’s electronic unit said on Wednesday it is closing 20 retail stores in the United States and cutting 1,000 jobs, as the TV and game console maker tries to stem losses and regain market share.
Syrup spill sticks Oklahoma commuters in thick traffic jam
OKLAHOMA CITY (Reuters) – Traffic slowed to a trickle on a major Oklahoma City highway on Wednesday morning after a tractor trailer hauling syrup sprang a leak and left a 5-mile trail of the sticky substance on the roadway.
Supreme Court rules against protester at air force base
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday that an anti-nuclear weapons protester could not avoid prosecution simply because he demonstrated on a public road that runs through a U.S. military installation in California.
Ex-NFL star Hernandez involved in jail house scuffle: official
BOSTON (Reuters) – Former National Football League star Aaron Hernandez, charged with shooting a friend to death last year, was involved in a Massachusetts jailhouse scuffle with another inmate that left neither man seriously injured, law enforcement o…
Mexican drug kingpin Guzman dodges U.S. extradition for now
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexican drug kingpin Joaquin “Shorty” Guzman won a temporary injunction to block his extradition to the United States where he faces narcotics and arms trafficking charges, a federal judge ruled on Tuesday.
Killer of Missouri schoolgirl executed after appeals dismissed
KANSAS CITY, Missouri (Reuters) – A Missouri man was executed early on Wednesday for raping and murdering a 15 year-old school girl, authorities said after the U.S. Supreme Court dismissed a flurry of petitions seeking a stay.
Data breach at Indiana University exposes information of 146,000
(Reuters) – The personal data of 146,000 students and recent graduates of Indiana University, including their social security numbers and addresses, may have been exposed during a data breach, the university said in a statement.
