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.
Pentagon tightens cybersecurity rules for defense contractors
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Pentagon said on Tuesday it had approved new rules that would require defense contractors to tighten their computer security procedures and to report any cyber intrusions that resulted in the loss of controlled technical info…
U.S. Justice Department rape statistics understate problem: study
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Department of Justice should change how it counts the number of sexual assaults that occur in the United States because its tally understates the numbers by possibly as much as seven-fold, an outside advisory panel said …
Husband of former Florida politician Katherine Harris found dead
MIAMI (Reuters) – The husband of former Congresswoman and Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris was found dead, an apparent suicide, on Tuesday, according to police and a family pastor.
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 earlier this month has been released from a hospital where he was recovering from bullet wounds and placed in the custody of federal marshals, a …
In Oklahoma, water, fracking – and a swarm of quakes
NORMAN, Oklahoma (Reuters) – Seismologist Austin Holland wants to start an earthquake.
Albuquerque, N.M., voters to decide on abortion limits
SANTA FE, New Mexico (Reuters) – Voters in Albuquerque will decide on Tuesday on an initiative that would outlaw most late-term abortions in New Mexico’s largest city, marking the first such measure placed on a municipal ballot in the United States.
Secret U.S. court approved wider NSA spying even after finding excesses
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – A secret U.S. intelligence court let the National Security Agency collect an expanded amount of data about Americans’ email even after finding that the agency systematically exceeded the limits of a smaller program, newly rele…
Blast kills two at Antwerp refinery, gasoline unit shut
PARIS/BRUSSELS (Reuters) – An explosion at Total’s Antwerp refinery in Belgium, Europe’s second-largest, killed two people, forced the evacuation of the site and caused the shutdown of a gasoline producing unit on Tuesday.
