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…
U.S. air marshal relieved of duties after arrest for upskirt photos
(Reuters) – A federal air marshal was relieved of his duties and will be suspended or fired after he used his cell phone to take photographs underneath the skirts of female passengers as they boarded an aircraft, federal authorities said Friday.
Waves of change wash over Jersey Shore in Sandy aftermath
BRICK TOWNSHIP, New Jersey (Reuters) – Navigating neighborhoods ravaged by Superstorm Sandy, the mayor of Brick Township, New Jersey, can tick off which residents are rebuilding and which ones gave up and left.
San Francisco rail workers strike, throwing commute into chaos
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Commuter rail workers in the San Francisco Bay Area walked off their jobs on Friday after talks on a new contract broke down over workplace rules, throwing the morning commute into chaos in the traffic-clogged Northern Califor…
Ohio family of six dies in collision with police car
CLEVELAND (Reuters) – A family of six died in a car crash just outside Columbus, Ohio, early on Friday after being hit by a police vehicle rushing to the scene of a robbery, police said.
Kansas ex-attorney general license suspended over abortion case conduct
(Reuters) – The Kansas Supreme Court on Friday indefinitely suspended the law license of former state Attorney General Phill Kline for violating 11 rules of professional conduct in connection with his prosecution of abortion providers.
Autopsy to be performed on fetus found in N.Y. teen’s shopping bag
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The New York City medical examiner will perform an autopsy on Friday on a human fetus found inside the shopping bag of a teenage girl who was arrested on charges of shoplifting at a Victoria’s Secret store in Manhattan, authorities…
U.S. nuclear arms modernization plan misguided: scientists’ group
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – An Obama administration plan to spend $60 billion over the next 25 years to modernize the U.S. nuclear arsenal is misguided and violates the spirit of its pledge not to develop new nuclear arms, a Union of Concerned Scientists re…
California pension fund to appeal San Bernardino bankruptcy eligibility
(Reuters) – The largest U.S. public employee pension fund said Thursday that it would appeal an August court ruling granting Chapter 9 bankruptcy protection to the city of San Bernardino, California.
Prosecutors to appeal new trial ruling for New Orleans cops
NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) – The U.S. Justice Department will appeal a district judge’s decision to grant a new trial to five former New Orleans police officers convicted in the killing of two unarmed people in a post-Hurricane Katrina shooting in 2005, acc…
