Autopsy results weeks away for fetus in N.Y. teen’s shopping bag
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The New York City medical examiner performed an autopsy Friday on a fetus found in the shopping bag of a teenage girl arrested for shoplifting at a Victoria’s Secret store, but said results on the cause of death were weeks away.
US Scout leaders topple ancient rock formation, trigger outrage
(Reuters) – An online video of two Boy Scouts of America leaders knocking over a 170-million-year-old rock formation in a Utah State Park has touched off worldwide outrage, state officials said on Friday, and the two men may face charges.
Prosecutors decline to charge any California firefighter in Asiana death
(Reuters) – No criminal charges will be filed against a firefighter whose emergency vehicle struck and killed a teenage passenger who had survived the Asiana Airlines crash-landing at San Francisco airport, a California prosecutor said on Friday.
New Jersey top court rules gay marriages can begin on Monday
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Same-sex couples in New Jersey will be able to wed starting on Monday, after the state’s highest court unanimously denied Governor Chris Christie’s request to put gay marriage on hold while the state’s appeal is heard.
Kansas ex-AG’s law license suspended over abortion case conduct
KANSAS CITY, Kansas (Reuters) – Overzealous prosecution of abortion providers has cost Kansas’ former Attorney General Phill Kline his right to practice law after the state Supreme Court on Friday found he violated 11 rules of professional conduct and …
Colorado theater massacre lawyers seek to exclude suspect’s emails
CENTENNIAL, Colo. (Reuters) – Defense lawyers trying to whittle away at what evidence may be used in the murder trial of accused Colorado theater massacre gunman James Holmes argued on Friday that information gleaned from personal and school email acco…
U.S. court may allow suits against Guantanamo forced feeding
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A U.S. appeals court showed a potential willingness on Friday to allow Guantanamo Bay hunger strikers to sue over being force-fed, a practice the Obama administration says is necessary to keep order but that critics call inhumane…
Exclusive: NSA delayed anti-leak software at base where Snowden worked -officials
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. National Security Agency failed to install the most up-to-date anti-leak software at a site in Hawaii before contractor Edward Snowden went to work there and downloaded tens of thousands of highly classified documents, c…
N.Y. man arrested, charged with trying to join al Qaeda
CENTRAL ISLIP, New York (Reuters) – U.S. officials on Friday arrested a 25-year-old man in a New York suburb and charged him with trying to travel to Yemen to join al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, one of the most active wings of the militant network….
Lawyer for accused Massachusetts crime lab chemist asks leniency
BOSTON (Reuters) – A lawyer for a former chemist accused of falsifying thousands of drug tests at a Massachusetts crime lab urged a judge on Friday to be lenient in sentencing his client, arguing she had already suffered severely as a result of the sca…
