Judge won’t issue gag order in ex-NFL player murder case
FALL RIVER, Massachusetts (Reuters) – The judge hearing the murder trial of former National Football League star Aaron Hernandez declined on Wednesday to issue a gag order prohibiting lawyers involved in the case from speaking about it publicly.
ACLU sues Ohio for including abortion restrictions in its budget
CLEVELAND (Reuters) – The American Civil Liberties Union of Ohio sued the state over including abortion-related provisions in its budget, in what abortion rights activists charged was an effort to quietly restrict women’s access to clinics.
Arizona executes man convicted of 1978 strangling
PHOENIX/AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) – An Arizona death row inmate convicted of strangling a 74-year-old man and fleeing in the victim’s new Cadillac more than three decades ago was executed by lethal injection on Wednesday, and another man was due to be ex…
Kinder Morgan to build an extension to Eagle Ford pipeline
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Kinder Morgan Energy Partners on Wednesday said it has agreed with an unnamed Eagle Ford oil producer to extend its 300,000 barrels-per-day (bpd) Kinder Morgan Crude Condensate (KMCC) pipeline farther into the southern Texas shale …
Four charged with dereliction in U.S. Navy divers’ deaths
(Reuters) – Four U.S. Navy sailors were charged with dereliction of duty on Wednesday in the death of two divers during a training exercise in Maryland earlier this year.
Fire out, no service impact from Oklahoma pipeline blast
OKLAHOMA CITY (Reuters) – A natural gas pipeline fire in rural northwest Oklahoma was extinguished on Wednesday morning with no injuries reported, and the company that owns it, Northern Natural Gas, is working to determine the cause of the blast, a com…
Arizona says it executed man convicted of 1978 strangling death
PHOENIX (Reuters) – An Arizona inmate convicted of strangling a 74-year-old man to death and fleeing in the victim’s new Cadillac more than three decades ago was executed by lethal injection on Wednesday.
Pennsylvania highway crash kills one, injures dozens
(Reuters) – One woman was killed and dozens of people injured when a Greyhound bus hit the back of a tractor-trailer early Wednesday morning on a central Pennsylvania highway, police said.
Son of ex-Red Sox player pleads not guilty to murder
BOSTON (Reuters) – The son of a former Boston Red Sox player and broadcaster has pleaded not guilty to charges he stabbed his girlfriend to death in their apartment outside Boston.
U.S. allows families of embassy staff to return to Beirut
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. State Department said on Wednesday that family members of its embassy staff in Beirut may return to Lebanon, in a sign the volatile security environment has improved.
