Activists seek Montana judge ouster over lenient rape sentence
(Reuters) – Citing age, race and gender bias, women activists asked a Montana panel on Tuesday to oust a state judge who sentenced a former teacher to just one month in prison for raping a 14-year-old student who later killed herself.
IRS rides 1884 ‘dead horse’ law to defense of tax preparer rules
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Obama administration on Tuesday defended its effort to regulate the tax return preparation business for the first time in U.S. history, basing its case largely on a 19th century law dealing with horses lost or killed in the C…
Heirs of wealthy, reclusive N.Y. heiress settle battle over will
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Battling relatives and other beneficiaries on Tuesday resolved a dispute over the multimillion-dollar estate of Huguette Clark, one of America’s wealthiest heiresses who died in New York City in 2011 at age 104.
Texan killed her husband and their 3 kids, then herself: sheriff
AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) – A North Texas woman shot dead her husband and three children before turning the gun on herself, authorities said on Tuesday, adding that they still do not know her motive.
Court-martial delayed for U.S. general accused of sexual assault
WINSTON-SALEM, North Carolina (Reuters) – The court-martial for a U.S. Army general accused of forcing a subordinate to have sex has been delayed until January, officials at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, said on Tuesday.
U.S. Senate confirms first openly gay federal appeals court judge
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Senate voted overwhelmingly on Tuesday to confirm Todd Hughes to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, making him the first openly gay judge to serve on an appeals court in the United States.
Faculty sues to keep California’s biggest community college open
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Teachers at City College of San Francisco on Tuesday sued to block regulators from taking steps to shutter California’s largest community college, which was stripped of its accreditation earlier this year.
California law allows kids to erase digital indiscretions
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – California teenagers, who post photographs of themselves wearing too little clothing or having had too much to drink, will have the legal right to erase their online indiscretions under newly enacted first-in-the-nation legisl…
U.S. Senate Republicans start closing ranks on spending bill
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Senate Republicans on Tuesday appeared to fall in line with their leaders who want to pass an emergency spending bill by September 30 and avoid government shutdowns, even if it means failing in a drive to destroy “Obamacare….
List of missing Colorado flood victims down to just one
DENVER (Reuters) – The list of people still missing in the devastating Colorado floods dwindled to one person on Tuesday, a woman who is presumed dead, after six others once among the hundreds unaccounted for notified authorities that they were alive a…
