U.S. court upholds ex-Guantanamo detainee’s conviction over embassy blasts
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A U.S. appeals court ruled Thursday that a Guantanamo Bay detainee’s constitutional right to speedy trial was not violated by his five years in detention, upholding his conviction and life sentence for his role in U.S. embassy bomb…
Mother of bullied Florida girl seeks funeral donations
TAMPA, Florida (Reuters) – The mother of a 12-year-old Florida girl who committed suicide last month apparently after being bullied at school and on the Internet, announced a crowd-funding effort in Tampa on Thursday to help pay for funeral expenses.
U.S. hotel staffing company files for bankruptcy, seeks sale
(Reuters) – Hospitality Staffing Solutions Group LLC, which provides housekeeping personnel for hotels, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on Thursday, three years after being acquired by private equity firm Frontenac Co.
U.S. immigration landmark Ellis Island to reopen, a year after Sandy
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Ellis Island, the patch of land in New York Harbor where millions of immigrants first touched U.S. soil, will partially reopen to the public on Monday, a year after it was submerged by Superstorm Sandy’s floodwaters.
Eight U.S. states band together to promote clean cars
(Reuters) – The governors of California, New York and six other states have agreed to put 3.3 million zero-emission vehicles on the road within 12 years, which they said will help the environment and boost the economy.
Demolition of Sandy Hook school, site of massacre, to begin Friday
MILFORD, Connecticut (Reuters) – The demolition of Newtown, Connecticut’s Sandy Hook Elementary School, where 20 young children and six adults were shot to death last December, will begin on Friday under a cloak of secrecy meant to discourage souvenir-…
Pirates kidnap two U.S. sailors off Nigerian coast -sources
ABUJA/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Pirates attacked an oil supply vessel off the Nigerian coast and kidnapped the captain and chief engineer, both U.S. citizens, an American defense official and security sources said on Thursday.
California cop who pepper-sprayed student protesters awarded $38,000
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – A former University of California policeman who stirred public outrage by pepper-spraying peaceful student protesters has been awarded $38,000 in worker’s compensation for psychiatric damage he claimed to have suffered from the …
California police who shot teen dead thought replica gun was real
SANTA ROSA, California (Reuters) – A 13-year-old California boy carrying a replica of an assault rifle to a friend’s house was shot and killed by a sheriff’s deputy who believed the gun was real, authorities said.
Idaho hiker’s body found after search hampered by government shutdown
SALMON, Idaho (Reuters) – The body of a missing hiker has been recovered at Craters of the Moon National Monument and Preserve in central Idaho after a month-long search hampered by the recent U.S. government shutdown.
