Ex-New York state senator sentenced to five years in prison
By Nate RaymondNEW YORK (Reuters) - A former New York state senator was sentenced on Wednesday to five years in prison for seeking to obstruct a federal investigation into whether he had embezzled...
View ArticleWife of Florida nightclub gunman pleads not guilty to aiding attack
By Deborah M. ToddOAKLAND, Calif. (Reuters) - The wife of the gunman in the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history pleaded not guilty on Wednesday to charges she assisted him ahead of the fatal...
View ArticleU.S Army to begin environmental study of Dakota pipeline
By Timothy Mclaughlin(Reuters) - The U.S. Army on Wednesday began the process of launching an environmental study of the Dakota Access pipeline crossing in North Dakota, a move that has been challenged...
View ArticleAxeon plans to shutter New Jersey asphalt refinery: sources
By Jarrett RenshawNEW YORK (Reuters) - Axeon Specialty Products plans on shutting down its 75,000 barrel-per-day asphalt refinery in Paulsboro, New Jersey, as early as this summer, according to a local...
View ArticleEPA nominee will review vehicle emissions rules
By David ShepardsonWASHINGTON (Reuters) - Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt, U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's choice to lead the Environmental Protection Agency, said on Wednesday he will...
View ArticleU.S. must release Abu Ghraib photos, judge says
By Jonathan StempelNEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. Department of Defense must release a cache of photos showing how Army personnel treated detainees at the Abu Ghraib prison and other sites in Iraq and...
View ArticleFlorida man accused of online threat to kill Trump
(Reuters) - A Florida man was being held in jail on Wednesday after police said he threatened in a video message on Twitter to kill President-elect Donald Trump.Dominic Joseph Puopolo confessed to...
View ArticleBoston entrepreneur gets 20 months in prison for insider trading
By Nate Raymond(Reuters) - A Boston-area real estate entrepreneur was sentenced on Wednesday to 20 months in prison after being convicted of engaging in insider trading in connection with Apollo Tyres...
View ArticleFamed OJ lawyer, Delaware justice clash over translation firm sale
By Tom HalsDOVER, Del. (Reuters) - Famed attorney Alan Dershowitz and a rare protest outside Delaware's Supreme Court fueled an unusually heated hearing on Wednesday, in a battle between the warring...
View ArticleNew York probing reverse mortgages at Treasury nominee's ex-bank: source
By Karen FreifeldNEW YORK (Reuters) - The New York attorney general's office is investigating reverse-mortgage servicing companies, including a unit of the bank Treasury Secretary nominee Steve Mnuchin...
View ArticleFather files suit against police in California for son's fatal shooting
By Alex DobuzinskisLOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The father of Alfred Olango, an unarmed black man shot to death by police in Southern California last year, has filed a lawsuit against the officer involved...
View ArticleUndocumented worker sues San Francisco for violating sanctuary law
By Alex Dobuzinskis(Reuters) - An undocumented immigrant from El Salvador is suing San Francisco alleging police violated the city's sanctuary city policy by turning him over to U.S. immigration...
View ArticleChicago police officer charged with murder in off-duty shooting
By Timothy MclaughlinCHICAGO (Reuters) - Prosecutors charged a Chicago police officer on Wednesday with first-degree murder after he was accused of fatally shooting an unarmed man during an altercation...
View ArticleU.S. cities move to curb lead poisoning following Reuters report
By Joshua Schneyer and M.B. PellNEW YORK (Reuters) - Cities and towns across the United States are taking action after a Reuters report identified thousands of communities where children tested with...
View ArticleWomen marching against Trump plan next step: public office
By Laila KearneyNEW YORK (Reuters) - After she spends Saturday marching in Washington among an expected 200,000 women protesting the presidency of Donald Trump on his first full day in office, Amy...
View ArticleMassey ex-CEO's conviction upheld over fatal mine blast
(Reuters) - A federal appeals court on Thursday let stand former Massey Energy Co Chief Executive Donald Blankenship's conviction for conspiracy and one-year prison sentence related to his role in a...
View ArticleEx-president George H.W. Bush had good night's rest, remains in ICU
By Jon HerskovitzAUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - Former U.S. President George H.W. Bush remains in stable condition with pneumonia in the intensive care unit of a Houston hospital and his wife, Barbara Bush,...
View ArticleU.S. appeals court voids Chicago gun range limits
By Jonathan Stempel(Reuters) - The federal appeals court in Chicago dealt that city a setback in its effort to control guns, declaring unconstitutional two zoning restrictions governing shooting ranges...
View ArticleChicago police officers suspended for faulty dashcams during 2014 shooting
By Timothy MclaughlinCHICAGO (Reuters) - Four Chicago police officers were suspended for not having properly functioning dashboard cameras during the 2014 shooting death of a black teenager by a white...
View ArticleNew York gives legal guidance to sanctuary cities for immigrants
By Mica RosenbergNEW YORK (Reuters) - New York's attorney general on Thursday published legal guidance for local cities and towns that want to combat tougher federal immigration enforcement expected in...
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