Car carrying L.A. mayor hits, injures pedestrian
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – A Los Angeles police car carrying Mayor Eric Garcetti through the city’s downtown struck a pedestrian on Tuesday, a woman who was taken to a nearby hospital with non-life threatening injuries, officials said.
No charges filed in shooting death of North Carolina teen in police custody
RALEIGH, North Carolina (Reuters) – No criminal charges will be filed in the case of a North Carolina teen who authorities say fatally shot himself in the head while handcuffed in the back of a police cruiser, an official said on Tuesday.
Briton jailed 27 years for Florida murders seeks to reopen case
MIAMI (Reuters) – Lawyers for a British man convicted in Florida for a 1986 double homicide sought to reopen the case on Tuesday, claiming that three Colombian drug traffickers were the real killers.
Emergency calls show ambulance delay in fatal NJ carjacking: report
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A woman’s frantic calls to emergency responders show that an ambulance took 18 minutes to reach her husband who lay dying after being shot by carjackers at a New Jersey mall, a newspaper reported on Tuesday.
Boy, 12, opens fire at New Mexico school, wounds two students
(Reuters) – A 12-year-old boy armed with a shotgun opened fire at a middle school in New Mexico on Tuesday, seriously wounding two students before a staff member persuaded him to put down the firearm, authorities said.
U.S. judge rules against government in no-fly challenge
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – A U.S. judge on Tuesday sided with a woman challenging the federal government’s no-fly policy and ruled that existing procedures to correct mistakes on that list do not provide adequate due process protections.
FBI to revisit fatal beating of California transient after police cleared
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – The FBI plans to re-examine the fatal beating of a mentally ill California transient after a jury acquitted two ex-policemen of all charges in connection with his 2011 death, which touched off protests and political upheaval in …
U.S. judge rules Oklahoma gay marriage ban unconstitutional
OKLAHOMA CITY (Reuters) – A federal judge overturned Oklahoma’s ban on same-sex marriage on Tuesday, the latest in a series of rulings by judges in federal and state courts to find that such exclusions violate the U.S. Constitution.
Woman rescued from Nevada motel after six months as captive: police
(Reuters) – A woman held captive for six months by a former boyfriend who threatened to kill her if she tried to escape was rescued from a Nevada motel after writing about her plight on Facebook, police said on Tuesday.
U.S. courts oppose reform proposals for secret surveillance court
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. federal court system objects to key proposals by a presidential review panel to reform the secret court that supervises the classified electronic eavesdropping activities of the U.S. National Security Agency, a former ch…
