Stormy Halloween in central U.S. leaves four people dead
Kansas City, Missouri (Reuters) – A violent Halloween storm swept from the U.S. Gulf Coast up to the eastern Great Lakes killing at least four people, three in Texas and one in Tennessee, and contributed to the overturning of a school bus in a rain-swo…
New York’s de Blasio would drop stop-and-frisk appeal: source
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Leading New York City mayoral contender Bill de Blasio, a longtime critic of the police stop-and-frisk tactic would drop the city’s legal challenge of court-ordered reforms to the program if elected, a person close to the campaign …
Florida attorney may be disbarred due to foreclosure “tsunami”
ORLANDO, Florida (Reuters) – A Florida lawyer known as the “foreclosure king” who allegedly left a string of fraudulent legal documents and more than 100,000 abandoned court cases in his wake is facing disbarment as a result of a court ruling this week…
Arizona sheriff to fight ruling appointing race-profiling monitor
PHOENIX (Reuters) – Attorneys for hard-line Arizona sheriff Joe Arpaio will appeal a judge’s ruling ordering the appointment of a monitor to ensure that his officers no longer use racial profiling, especially of Latinos, in their efforts to crack down …
Sought in child porn, ex-head of Delaware prep school is missing
PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) – Law enforcement officials were hunting on Friday for the former headmaster of an elite college prep school in Delaware who vanished after being charged with dealing in child pornography.
Once an activist, U.S. envoy Power now fights as a diplomat
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – Three months into Samantha Power’s tenure as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, human rights activists who favor military intervention have learned to temper their hopes that she would push aggressively for using force to…
Adoption group calls for U.S. laws to stop online child trading
(Reuters) – A study by a major U.S. adoption research group calls for “targeted laws, policies and practices” to stop adoptive parents from giving their unwanted children to strangers through the Internet.
Toronto mayor’s lawyer tells police to release alleged crack video
TORONTO (Reuters) – Toronto Mayor Rob Ford’s lawyer said on Friday his client was not smoking crack cocaine in a video that has been seen only by a few but has dominated Canadian headlines for months, and he urged the city’s police to release the video…
GM recalls some new pickup trucks in U.S. to fix seatbacks
DETROIT (Reuters) – General Motors Co is recalling nearly 19,000 of its all-new 2014 Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra pickup trucks to repair a problem with the manual reclining seatback, according to a notice from U.S. auto safety regulators on Frid…
U.S. appeals court backs employer in ‘contraception mandate’ case
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A federal appeals court in Washington joined other courts on Friday by ruling for an employer who raised religious objections to a provision of the 2010 U.S. healthcare law requiring companies to provide insurance that covers bir…
