Judge grants Missouri convicted killer grant stay of execution
(Reuters) – A federal judge on Tuesday granted an avowed white supremacist serial killer a stay of execution hours before he was scheduled to be put to death, allowing him time to challenge Missouri’s new lethal drug protocol.
Accused L.A. gunman moved from hospital to U.S. marshals’ custody
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – The man charged with a deadly shooting frenzy at Los Angeles International Airport has been released from the hospital where he was recovering from bullet wounds and turned over to federal marshals, a U.S. attorney’s spokesman s…
Texas bank robber ‘Mesh Mask Bandit’ pleads guilty: records
DALLAS (Reuters) – A Texas man, dubbed the “Mesh Mask Bandit” by the FBI, pled guilty in federal court on Tuesday to robbing five banks and admitted robbing more than a dozen others in a plea agreement with prosecutors, according to court records.
Police probe if Virginia state senator was stabbed by son
RICHMOND, Virginia (Reuters) – A Virginia state senator was stabbed and seriously wounded at his home on Tuesday, and police said they were investigating whether the senator’s son may have carried out the attack before committing suicide.
Zimmerman freed from Florida jail after arrest for assault
SANFORD, Florida (Reuters) – George Zimmerman, who was acquitted last summer in the fatal shooting of unarmed black teenager Trayvon Martin, was released from jail on Tuesday after his arrest for an incident in which he is alleged to have pulled a shot…
Guard shoots student dead at Virginia’s Liberty University
RICHMOND, Virginia (Reuters) – A male student at Liberty University, a Christian college in Lynchburg, Virginia, was shot and killed early on Tuesday by a university security guard in an off-campus residential hall for women, police said.
Residents of tornado-hit Midwest city regroup amid looting
WASHINGTON, Illinois (Reuters) – Residents of a central Illinois city hit by a powerful tornado worked feverishly on Tuesday to salvage belongings from the rubble of their homes, as an over-burdened police force tried to stop looting.
Texas woman killed in hotel bed by bullet from adjoining room
IRVING, Texas (Reuters) – A Texas woman was killed while watching TV in a suburban Dallas hotel bed on Tuesday after a bullet came through the wall of an adjoining room and struck her in the chest, police in the city of Irving said.
Colorado teen who dismembered girl to spend life in prison
DENVER (Reuters) – A Colorado teenager who pleaded guilty to abducting, killing and dismembering a 10-year-old schoolgirl, and to the botched kidnapping of a female jogger months before the slaying, was sentenced on Tuesday to life in prison.
Driver charged after dragging woman 3 miles along Massachusetts highway
BOSTON (Reuters) – A Massachusetts man was charged on Tuesday in the death of a woman dragged under his pickup truck for three miles (five kilometers) along a highway south of Boston, after a dispute about a motel bill.
