Ohio school employees plead not guilty in Steubenville rape case
STEUBENVILLE, Ohio (Reuters) – Four adults in Steubenville, Ohio, including the school’s superintendent, pleaded not guilty on Friday to charges stemming from the handling of the investigation into the rape of a teenage girl in August 2012.
Cleveland man found guilty in city’s deadliest house fire
CLEVELAND (Reuters) – A Cleveland man accused of setting the city’s deadliest house fire, which killed eight children and a woman, was found guilty by a jury on Friday, a spokesman for the U.S. Attorney’s office said.
Veterans group to fight order to tear down landmark California cross
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – A veterans association that built a massive cross overlooking San Diego as part of a war memorial plans to fight a federal judge’s order to tear it down, a lawyer for the group said on Friday.
American missing in Iran was probing possible money laundering: lawyer
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – An American with links to the Central Intelligence Agency was investigating suspicions that Iranian government officials were diverting petroleum funds and laundering them through Canada when he went missing in Iran in 2007, a la…
Man arrested for suspected suicide plot to blow up Kansas airport
(Reuters) – Authorities said Friday they foiled a suicide bombing plot to blow up the Mid-Continent Airport in Wichita, Kansas, arresting a man who proclaimed himself Muslim and had talked of committing “violent jihad on behalf of al Qaeda.”
Ohio man found guilty in Cleveland’s deadliest house fire
CLEVELAND (Reuters) – A federal jury on Friday found a man guilty of setting a blaze that killed eight children and a woman in the deadliest house fire in Cleveland’s history, a spokesman for the U.S. Attorney’s office said.
Two dead in Utah as boulders crush home near U.S. national park
(Reuters) – Two people were killed and the home they occupied was destroyed after building-sized boulders crashed down a cliff and crushed the two-story structure outside Zion National Park in southern Utah, officials said on Friday.
Ohio man guilty of arson in retrial for deadly Cleveland blaze
CLEVELAND (Reuters) – A federal jury in Cleveland found a man guilty on Friday of setting a blaze that killed a woman and eight children in the deadliest house fire in the city’s history, a spokesman for the U.S. Attorney’s office said.
U.S. schools’ approach to student data threatens privacy: study
NEW YORK (Reuters) – School districts across the United States are failing to properly protect troves of sensitive student data as they rush to adopt new online systems pitched by private companies, a report released on Friday found.
Student opens fire at Colorado high school, wounds two classmates
CENTENNIAL, Colo. (Reuters) – A student armed with a shotgun and seeking to confront a teacher opened fire at a Colorado high school on Friday, wounding at least two classmates before apparently taking his own life, law enforcement officials said.
