Autopsies reveal new details of slayings in California kidnap case
SAN DIEGO (Reuters) – The mother of a San Diego-area teenager who was kidnapped by a family friend last month and rescued days later in Idaho was killed by at least a dozen blows to the head and left bound and gagged inside a garage set ablaze after he…
Minnesota Somalis fear backlash after Kenya mall attack
MINNEAPOLIS (Reuters) – Members of the largest ethnic Somali community in the United States expressed frustration on Tuesday, fearing a backlash after the attack on a Kenya shopping mall by a Somalia-based Islamic group that has recruited fighters in M…
‘Baby Veronica’ adoption case re-opens wounds for Native Americans
CALERA, Oklahoma (Reuters) – When a four-year-old Cherokee girl was reunited with her adoptive parents on Monday night, it potentially signaled the conclusion of a custody battle that entangled governors from two states and worked its way up to the U.S…
Police to escort adoptive parents home in U.S. battle over Cherokee girl
CHARLESTON, South Carolina (Reuters) – The adoptive parents of a 4-year-old Native American girl will take her back to South Carolina from Oklahoma with a police escort after winning a cross-cultural custody battle fought all the way to the U.S. Suprem…
Seeking cheaper widgets, NYC to share procurement data
(Reuters) – When New York’s Rockland County needed to buy two new asphalt rollers for highway construction projects this summer, it saved $38,000 by looking halfway across the country – in Texas.
Ohio to use last of lethal drug supply for execution Wednesday
CLEVELAND (Reuters) – Ohio is scheduled to use its last dose of a lethal drug to execute convicted murderer Harry Mitts Jr. on Wednesday, the latest state forced to find alternative methods after the foreign pharmaceutical supplier cut off supplies due…
Border Patrol agrees to officer training in Washington state profiling case
OLYMPIA, Washington (Reuters) – The U.S. Border Patrol will submit to outside scrutiny and retrain agents in Washington state’s Olympic Peninsula in a settlement to a lawsuit accusing the agency of racial profiling in traffic stops, officials said on T…
Wild pigs menace suburban Atlanta
ATLANTA (Reuters) – Wild pigs have descended on a suburban Atlanta neighborhood where they are scaring children, making a general nuisance of themselves, and acting as they if they own the place.
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…
