Penn State to pay $59.7 million in Sandusky child sex abuse settlement
(Reuters) – Penn State has settled the bulk of claims by child sex abuse victims of Jerry Sandusky in a major step to move beyond a scandal that cost millions and upended a once legendary football program, the university said on Monday.
FBI orders new agents to see Martin Luther King memorial
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The new FBI chief on Monday ordered all new agents and analysts to visit the national memorial to late civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. as a reminder not to repeat the abuses of the U.S. investigative bureau’s past.
Judge blocks part of Texas law restricting abortion
AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) – A federal judge on Monday blocked a provision of a new Texas law that requires doctors performing abortions to have an agreement with a local hospital to admit patients, and the judge left up to physicians the decision whether…
HealthCare.gov up again after data system crash, may be slow: agency
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The website at the center of the U.S. healthcare reform law was back up Monday after a data center outage prevented Americans from enrolling in subsidized health insurance, the latest technical problem to plague the online insuranc…
Ex-Arizona Representative Renzi sentenced to three years in prison for fraud, extortion
TUCSON, Arizona (Reuters) – A judge sentenced former U.S. Representative Richard Renzi of Arizona to three years in prison on Monday for fraud, extortion and money laundering stemming from a federal land swap deal when he was in office.
Rapper 50 Cent gets probation in domestic violence case
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – American rapper 50 Cent on Monday struck a deal with Los Angeles prosecutors for three years’ probation and 30 days of community service after allegedly kicking the mother of his child and destroying her property during a June a…
Two of the four escaped Oklahoma inmates are captured
OKLAHOMA CITY (Reuters) – Two of the four Oklahoma inmates who escaped from a county jail through a maintenance hatch in a shower have been captured, but the others remain on the loose, authorities said on Monday.
Doctor convicted in Michael Jackson death leaves prison
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Michael Jackson’s personal physician, convicted of manslaughter for administering a lethal dose of anesthetic to the pop singer, was released from a Los Angeles prison on Monday after serving half of his four-year sentence.
Blizzard fund raises $400,000 for South Dakota ranchers
(Reuters) – A relief effort has raised about $400,000 for South Dakota farmers and ranchers affected by a rare autumn blizzard earlier this month that killed sheep and tens of thousands of cattle.
Ohio says it will switch to new drugs for executions
CLEVELAND (Reuters) – Ohio said on Monday that it does not have enough of the drug pentobarbital to carry out a scheduled execution next month, the latest U.S. state to face a scarcity after the European manufacturer banned its sale for lethal injectio…
