Man indicted in North Carolina for trying to aid Syria rebel group
WINSTON-SALEM, North Carolina (Reuters) – A Pakistani native accused of trying to aid a group deemed a foreign terrorist organization by the U.S. government has been indicted by a federal grand jury in North Carolina, the U.S. Justice Department said o…
Detroit wants to keep banker’s fee secret
WILMINGTON, Delaware (Reuters) – The judge overseeing Detroit’s historic bankruptcy filing has made clear he expects full disclosure of professional fees billed in the case. On Thursday the city will ask for an exception: fees paid to its banker.
Recommendation on death penalty for accused Boston bomber near
BOSTON (Reuters) – Federal prosecutors in Massachusetts will decide within a week whether to recommend the death penalty for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev if he is convicted in the Boston Marathon bombing.
Connecticut adds $16 million to boost school security after Newtown
FARMINGTON, Connecticut (Reuters) – Connecticut on Tuesday released an additional $16 million in state funding toward boosting security at school buildings, nearly a year after a gunman massacred 26 people at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown…
Florida, Texas set to execute convicted killers
TALLAHASSEE, Fla./ AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) – Two U.S. death row inmates face execution on Tuesday, including a Florida man convicted of a 1991 sexual assault and murder who will be put to death using a new lethal injection procedure that has drawn lega…
Trial of U.S. Air Force officer accused of groping woman begins
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The trial of an officer accused of groping a woman while he headed the U.S. Air Force’s sexual assault prevention unit began on Tuesday in a Virginia courtroom.
U.S. justices decline to hear second Oklahoma abortion case
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to review a decision striking down a Oklahoma law that required any woman seeking an abortion to be shown an ultrasound image of the fetus beforehand.
Judge to sentence U.S. border cops who made smugglers eat pot
PHOENIX (Reuters) – Two U.S. Border Patrol agents who forced four suspected drug smugglers to chew marijuana and flee shoeless into the Arizona desert on a chilly November night are due to be sentenced on Tuesday for violating the men’s civil rights.
Dog finds human remains, owner buries leg in backyard
SEATTLE (Reuters) – A 93-year-old Washington state man, whose dog returned home with a human leg it had found, buried it in his back yard on an Indian reservation to avoid being suspected of a crime, a local official and media reports said.
Senator Inhofe’s son killed in plane crash -defense secretary
(Reuters) – The son of U.S. Senator James Inhofe was killed in a weekend plane crash near Tulsa, Oklahoma, the office of the U.S. Defense Secretary said on Monday.
