N.Y. lawyer gets six months in prison for Maxim magazine deal fraud
By Nate RaymondNEW YORK (Reuters) - A New York lawyer was sentenced on Thursday to six months in prison for participating in a fraudulent scheme in which a con man impersonated his successful father in...
View ArticleIllinois Education Board to ask court to prevent teacher strike
By Mark WeinraubCHICAGO (Reuters) - The Illinois Educational Labor Relations Board (IELRB) on Thursday voted to ask the state attorney general to go to court to prevent what it called illegal strikes...
View ArticleRights group probes arrests of Tennessee school children
(Reuters) - A civil rights group said on Thursday it has launched an investigation into the arrests of several Tennessee school children aged six to 11 in connection with an off-campus fight.The...
View ArticleDrilling deep in Dakota, real deep
Redfield, SD (KELO-AM) Researchers want to drill a 3-mile deep, straight as an arrow, hole into Spink County, South Dakota near Redfield to find out if the technique could one day be used to store...
View ArticleJournalists will not share Panama Papers with Justice Department
By Julia HarteWASHINGTON (Reuters) - The media group that coordinated the Panama Papers investigation into offshore companies said on Thursday it would not participate in a criminal probe by the U.S....
View ArticleTiger on the loose captured in Texas, hunt is on for owner
AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - A young female tiger found wandering with a leash and collar around a north Houston suburb was captured on Thursday and police were searching for whoever let the predator out...
View ArticleFlorida man indicted for bribery in case tied to JPMorgan hacking
By Nate RaymondNEW YORK (Reuters) - A Florida man was arrested on Thursday for participating in a bribery scheme aimed at supporting an illegal bitcoin exchange operated by his son and owned by an...
View ArticleMan who landed gyrocopter at U.S. Capitol gets 120 days in prison
By Ian SimpsonWASHINGTON (Reuters) - A former Florida mail carrier who flew a gyrocopter onto the U.S. Capitol grounds to publicize the need for campaign finance reform was sentenced to 120 days in...
View ArticleMilwaukee school aide may be fired for shoving student to floor
(Reuters) - Milwaukee school officials will decide whether to fire a high school teacher's aide after a video showed him shoving a student to a classroom floor, a school district spokesman said on...
View ArticleNew charges in Boston beheading plot to support Islamic State
By Julia HarteWASHINGTON (Reuters) - Two New England men accused of plotting to behead Massachusetts police officers in support of the militant group Islamic State were receiving instructions from one...
View ArticleTexas woman killed self with children in car: police
By Lisa Maria GarzaDALLAS (Reuters) - A woman from a Dallas suburb who was found dead inside her sport-utility vehicle with her three children alive in the back seat committed suicide, police said on...
View ArticleCalifornia coastal regulator fined for conflict of interest in SeaWorld case
By Sharon BernsteinSACRAMENTO, Calif. (Reuters) - A member of the regulatory commission that controls coastal development in California was fined by the state's ethics watchdog on Thursday for voting...
View ArticleNYC mayor signs bill cracking down on Elmos, Batmen in Times Square
By Marcus E. HowardNEW YORK (Reuters) - Costumed characters, painted women and anyone else working for tips in New York's Times Square will soon have to stay in special zones after New York Mayor Bill...
View ArticleMissing Virginia firefighter's body thought found, no foul play
(Reuters) - A body thought to be that of a missing Virginia firefighter was found in the Shenandoah National Park on Thursday and police do not suspect foul play in her death, a park spokeswoman...
View ArticleUber drivers remain independent contractors as lawsuit settled
By Dan LevineSAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Uber has agreed to pay up to $100 million to settle a class-action lawsuit which resolves a major challenge to its business model by allowing the ride-hailing...
View ArticleFive from Texas college charged with stealing dinosaur bones in Utah
(Reuters) - Prosecutors in Utah charged five people on Thursday with stealing dinosaur bones weighing at least 60 pounds during a field trip arranged by their Texas community college last year,...
View ArticleMurder suspect Jason Dalton due in court for competency exam in Kalamazoo
KALAMAZOO (WKZO-AM) -- A hearing will be held this morning to determine if Kalamazoo mass-shooting suspect Jason Dalton, 45, is competent to stand trial.The state psychologists who examined Dalton...
View ArticlePrince fans dance grief away at all-night Minneapolis party
MINNEAPOLIS (Reuters) - Prince's funky tunes filling the room, up to a thousand of the pop star's fans danced the night away at the Minneapolis club where "Purple Rain" was filmed, celebrating the late...
View ArticleGunshots on a New Orleans bridge, and the decade-long road to justice
By Ronnie Greene(Reuters) - Years before Black Lives Matter protesters roiled the streets of Ferguson and Baltimore, police officers in New Orleans killed two residents and maimed four others on a...
View ArticleHearing set in lawsuit against CIA interrogation program architects
By Eric M. JohnsonSEATTLE (Reuters) - Attorneys for two former military psychologists who developed the CIA's Bush-era interrogation program will ask a federal court in Washington state on Friday to...
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