‘Knockout game’ : A crime trend or random violence?
PHILADELPHIA, Pa (Reuters) – Police throughout the United States are investigating whether a rash of teen attacks on strangers, many of them elderly, is a crime trend known as the “knockout game” or a series of random acts of violence.
Italian prosecutor seeks total 30 years sentence for Amanda Knox
FLORENCE, Italy (Reuters) – An Italian prosecutor asked for a total sentence of 30 years for American student Amanda Knox on Tuesday in a retrial for the murder of her British roommate Meredith Kercher.
Newtown High football team, 11-0, dedicates season to Sandy Hook
MILFORD, Connecticut (Reuters) – The Newtown, Connecticut, high school football team knows that nothing can make up for the 26 people who were massacred last year at Sandy Hook Elementary School, but a year later they are trying to give people in town …
Amish buggy horse killed in drive-by shooting in Pennsylvania
PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) – A horse pulling a buggy with an Amish family aboard in rural Pennsylvania was struck by a bullet fired from a moving car and later died, police said on Tuesday.
Supreme Court agrees to review presidential protest case
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed to decide whether two U.S. Secret Service agents can be sued for allegedly treating protesters gathered in support of former President George W. Bush more favorably than protesters critica…
One killed, four injured in Texas hospital stabbing spree
AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) – One person was killed and four others injured when a man with a knife went on a stabbing spree on Tuesday at a hospital in the Texas city of Longview, officials said.
Ford recalls 2013 Escape SUVs for seventh time
DETROIT (Reuters) – Ford Motor Co’s bad safety streak with its 2013 Escape continued on Tuesday as the automaker issued two more recalls for the second most popular sport utility vehicle in the U.S. market.
Ho! Ho! Hold on! Massachusetts mall Santa charged with groping coworker
BOSTON (Reuters) – A man who worked as a Santa Claus in a Massachusetts shopping mall has been ordered not to put the red suit back on until a court resolves a charge that he groped an adult coworker over the weekend.
U.S. government plan adjusts 2014 risk payments for health insurers
(Reuters) – The U.S. government has issued a proposal that would likely increase risk payments in 2014 to health insurers offering plans on the Obamacare exchanges after the companies complained a recent policy change allowing people to keep their insu…
Insight: A new wave of U.S. mortgage trouble threatens
(Reuters) – U.S. borrowers are increasingly missing payments on home equity lines of credit they took out during the housing bubble, a trend that could deal another blow to the country’s biggest banks.
