Suspension of Virginia students over pellet guns prompts debate
RICHMOND, Virginia (Reuters) – Two Virginia Beach students have been suspended for a year for firing pellet guns at fellow students, prompting debate over school safety and whether their punishment was appropriate.
Ex-Army translator gets 25 years in Taliban weapons sting
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A federal judge on Wednesday sentenced a former translator for the U.S. Army in Iraq to 25 years in prison for trying to sell anti-aircraft missiles and other military weapons to the Taliban in Afghanistan.
Computer snags delay parts of Obamacare in some U.S. states
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The District of Columbia’s online health insurance exchange – one of 51 set up under President Barack Obama’s healthcare reform law – will be unable to perform two key functions when it opens on October 1, exchange officials announ…
Ex-Washington state campaign director charged with embezzling to feed gambling habit
OLYMPIA, Washington (Reuters) – The former head of a Democratic Party fundraising committee in Washington state has been charged with embezzling up to $300,000 in campaign contributions to feed a gambling habit, prosecutors said on Wednesday.
New Jersey residents spent less of summer at the shore: poll
(Reuters) – New Jersey residents spent less time than usual at the shore this summer, staying away due to weather and concern that businesses were closed after Superstorm Sandy, according to poll results released on Wednesday.
Teen arrested in Las Vegas in killing of mom and little brother
HENDERSON, Nevada (Reuters) – The 16-year-old suspect in the stabbing deaths of his mother and younger brother was arrested on Wednesday in an open-air food court on the Las Vegas Strip, authorities said.
U.S. IRS struggles to track its ‘Obamacare’ spending: watchdog
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Internal Revenue Service needs to do a better job tracking its spending related to President Barack Obama’s new healthcare law, an IRS watchdog said on Wednesday.
Police hunt gunman who shot two on Long Island
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Police launched a search for a gunman who they say shot two people, killing one, in what was described as a workplace incident on Wednesday morning in Garden City, Long Island, a suburb of New York, authorities said.
FBI releases video of ‘delusional’ Navy Yard shooter
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The FBI released surveillance video and photos of Navy Yard shooter Aaron Alexis on Wednesday and said he believed electromagnetic waves had been controlling him for months before the rampage that killed 12 people.
Ohio blast traced to construction project, not security threat
CLEVELAND (Reuters) – A blast that shook police headquarters in Ohio’s capital city of Columbus was traced to a construction-related battery malfunction in the lobby, and was not a security threat, police said on Wednesday.
