Silicon Valley workers may pursue collusion case as group: court
(Reuters) – Roughly 60,000 Silicon Valley workers won clearance to pursue a lawsuit accusing Apple Inc, Google Inc and other companies of conspiring to drive down pay by not poaching each other’s staff, after a federal appeals court refused to let the …
Man linked to N.Y. ‘cannibal cop’ case seen pleading guilty
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A Massachusetts hospital police official charged with conspiring to kidnap, torture and kill women as part of the so-called “cannibal cop” case is expected to plead guilty in New York this week, a court filing on Tuesday showed.
Woman rescued from Nevada motel after six months as captive: police
(Reuters) – A woman held captive for six months by a former boyfriend who threatened to kill her if she tried to escape was rescued from a Nevada motel after writing about her plight on Facebook, police said on Tuesday.
Car carrying L.A. mayor hits, injures pedestrian
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – A Los Angeles police car carrying Mayor Eric Garcetti through the city’s downtown struck a pedestrian on Tuesday, a woman who was taken to a nearby hospital with non-life threatening injuries, officials said.
No charges filed in shooting death of North Carolina teen in police custody
RALEIGH, North Carolina (Reuters) – No criminal charges will be filed in the case of a North Carolina teen who authorities say fatally shot himself in the head while handcuffed in the back of a police cruiser, an official said on Tuesday.
Briton jailed 27 years for Florida murders seeks to reopen case
MIAMI (Reuters) – Lawyers for a British man convicted in Florida for a 1986 double homicide sought to reopen the case on Tuesday, claiming that three Colombian drug traffickers were the real killers.
Emergency calls show ambulance delay in fatal NJ carjacking: report
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A woman’s frantic calls to emergency responders show that an ambulance took 18 minutes to reach her husband who lay dying after being shot by carjackers at a New Jersey mall, a newspaper reported on Tuesday.
Boy, 12, opens fire at New Mexico school, wounds two students
(Reuters) – A 12-year-old boy armed with a shotgun opened fire at a middle school in New Mexico on Tuesday, seriously wounding two students before a staff member persuaded him to put down the firearm, authorities said.
U.S. judge rules against government in no-fly challenge
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – A U.S. judge on Tuesday sided with a woman challenging the federal government’s no-fly policy and ruled that existing procedures to correct mistakes on that list do not provide adequate due process protections.
FBI to revisit fatal beating of California transient after police cleared
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – The FBI plans to re-examine the fatal beating of a mentally ill California transient after a jury acquitted two ex-policemen of all charges in connection with his 2011 death, which touched off protests and political upheaval in …
