Washington state coroner's inquest finds police shooting justified
By Alex Dobuzinskis(Reuters) - A jury found on Wednesday that Washington state police officers acted lawfully when they shot dead a Mexican farm worker after he threw rocks at them, city officials...
View ArticlePolice searching for North Carolina inmate escaped from hospital
(Reuters) - A man arrested for armed robbery escaped from a Fayetteville, North Carolina, hospital on Wednesday by assaulting a sheriff's deputy and fleeing in a stolen van, authorities said.Edward...
View ArticleEx-guard at N.Y.'s Rikers jail convicted over inmate's death
By Nate RaymondNEW YORK (Reuters) - A former guard at New York City's troubled Rikers Island jail complex was found guilty on Thursday of causing the death of an inmate in 2012 by repeatedly kicking...
View ArticleNew York still the apple of foreign property investors' eyes: survey
NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York City remained the top choice this year among foreign investors in commercial real estate while Washington fell to No. 15 as a global destination and dropped from the top...
View ArticleAmerican charged in bank hacking turned down Russian asylum: lawyer
By Nate RaymondNEW YORK (Reuters) - The Russian government offered asylum to a Maryland-born man facing U.S. charges he was part of a computer hacking scheme targeting financial firms including...
View ArticleCrews recover 1,250 barrels of oil from North Dakota pipeline leak
HOUSTON (Reuters) - Cleanup crews have recovered about 1,250 barrels of the 3,100 barrels of oil that leaked into a North Dakota creek last week following a spill on the Belle Fourche Pipeline, a...
View ArticleAlaska man charged with evading sanctions on Iran, money laundering
(Reuters) - An Alaska man has been charged with evading U.S. sanctions on Iran and money laundering, the U.S. Justice Department said on Thursday.Kenneth Zong, 77, of Anchorage, and one American and...
View ArticleRibble: Give President Trump a Chance
GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ) - As he counts down the days until he leaves Congress, U.S. Rep. Reid Ribble (R-Wisconsin) is talking about President-elect Donald Trump.Ribble, who did not support Trump in...
View ArticleTexas judge allows 'Charlie Brown Christmas' poster to go back up
By Jon HerskovitzAUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - A Texas judge ordered a school district to allow for the display of a poster inspired by the animated holiday television cartoon "A Charlie Brown Christmas,"...
View ArticleFormer Washington policeman indicted for trying to help Islamic State
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A former Washington transit police officer was indicted by a federal grand jury on Thursday on charges of attempting to help the Islamic State militant group, prosecutors...
View ArticleU.S. sues Michigan town for rejecting proposed mosque out of bias
By Timothy Mclaughlin(Reuters) - The U.S. government sued an eastern Michigan city on Thursday, saying it discriminated against Muslims when it rejected an Islamic group's plan to build a mosque...
View ArticleCharleston church gunman found guilty
REUTERS By Greg Lacour | CHARLESTON, S.C.A jury on Thursday found avowed white supremacist Dylann Roof guilty of federal hate crimes resulting in the deaths of nine black parishioners at a historic...
View ArticleStruggling Chicago schools increase size of bond deal by 46 percent
By Hilary RussNEW YORK (Reuters) - Chicago's financially struggling public school system boosted the amount of its planned bond sale on Thursday by 46 percent to $729.6 million, taking advantage of a...
View ArticleWashington grand jury indicts suspected pizzeria gunman on assault charge
(Reuters) - A federal grand jury on Thursday indicted a North Carolina man on assault and firearms charges for taking a rifle to a Washington, D.C., pizzeria that conspiracy theorists claimed without...
View ArticleU.S. says Singapore man pleads guilty to plot to export Iraq bomb parts
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A Singapore citizen pleaded guilty on Thursday to a federal charge stemming from his role in illegally exporting, through Iran, parts found in improvised explosive devices in...
View ArticleU.S. charges Nigerian with role in cyber scam targeting thousands
By Nate RaymondNEW YORK (Reuters) - A Nigerian man is facing U.S. charges that he participated in scams targeting thousands of victims globally in which company executives or vendors were impersonated...
View ArticleU.S. judge halts Texas rules on fetal tissue disposal
By Jon HerskovitzAUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - A U.S. judge on Thursday temporarily halted until Jan. 6 a Texas regulation that would require abortion providers to dispose of aborted fetal tissue through...
View ArticleDriver in deadly Tennessee bus crash was speeding, holding phone
By Tim GhianniNASHVILLE (Reuters) - The driver of a school bus that crashed in Chattanooga, Tennessee, last month, killing six children, was speeding and holding a cellphone while he drove, police said...
View ArticleFamily of black man killed by Washington police files lawsuit
(Reuters) - The family of an unarmed black man who was fatally shot by a District of Columbia police officer in September filed a lawsuit against the department on Thursday, alleging the victim posed...
View ArticleCoalition of 24 states urges Trump to kill Obama's carbon emission plan
(Reuters) - Officials in 24 states have urged U.S. President-elect Donald Trump to kill the centerpiece of President Barack Obama's strategy to combat climate change and shut down coal-fired power...
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