University of Missouri president wants probe of rape claim response
KANSAS CITY, Missouri (Reuters) – The University of Missouri’s president called on Wednesday for an independent counsel to investigate how school officials responded to the alleged 2010 rape of a student on the female swim team who later committed suic…
Supreme Court denies convicted Missouri killer’s appeals
KANSAS CITY, Missouri (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday lifted a temporary stay of execution for a Missouri man convicted of killing a jewelry store owner during a 1991 robbery, denying last-minute appeals.
Wisconsin man sentenced for starving, imprisoning daughter
MILWAUKEE (Reuters) – A Wisconsin man was sentenced on Wednesday to five years in prison for imprisoning his teenage daughter in a basement for six years and forcing her to eat her own excrement, a local prosecutor said.
Deadly ice storm turns Atlanta into parking lot, strands thousands
ATLANTA (Reuters) – A rare ice storm turned Atlanta into a slippery mess on Wednesday, stranding thousands for hours on frozen roadways and raising questions about how city leaders prepared for and handled the cold snap that slammed the U.S. South.
Amanda Knox faces verdict in Italy in retrial on Kercher murder
FLORENCE, Italy (Reuters) – Amanda Knox, the American student who became tabloid fodder, will not be in court on Thursday to hear Italian judges give their verdict in her retrial for the murder of Briton Meredith Kercher when the two were roommates stu…
Man convicted on terror charges for 2012 Michigan shooting spree
(Reuters) – A Michigan man was convicted on Wednesday of terrorism charges for a three-day October 2012 shooting spree on a busy interstate highway that injured one person and earned him the nickname “I-96 shooter,” prosecutors said.
Off reeking cruise ship in NJ, passengers recall nightmare trip
BAYONNE, New Jersey (Reuters) – Passengers staggered off a Royal Caribbean ship reeking of vomit and diarrhea at its home port on Wednesday after their cruise was cut short by an apparent stomach bug that felled nearly 700 vacationers and crew.
Cuban agent due for U.S. release to be deported, lawyer says
MIAMI (Reuters) – A Cuban intelligence agent, jailed for 15 years for spying on Cuban-American exiles in Miami, is due to be freed next month and is expected to be deported back to the Caribbean island country, his lawyer said on Wednesday.
Obama seeks to lift U.S. women’s pay further out of ‘Mad Men’ era
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. women’s paychecks will not catch up to men’s for another 40 years at the current rate of improvement, experts say, a situation U.S. president Barack Obama highlighted in his State of the Union address, calling for policy cha…
Attack on mass transit seen as top Super Bowl security risk
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Bomb attacks of the kind that tore through mass transit sites in Russia ahead of the upcoming Sochi Olympics are a top concern of security officials preparing for Sunday’s Super Bowl, the head of the New Jersey State Police said on…
