St. Louis ex-police officer sentenced for assaulting handcuffed man
CHICAGO (Reuters) - A former police officer from St. Louis, Missouri, was sentenced on Thursday by a federal judge to four years and four months in prison for assaulting a handcuffed man and injuring...
View ArticleNew York pharmacy owner, husband plead guilty to large opioid pill scheme
By Nate RaymondNEW YORK (Reuters) - The owner of two New York City pharmacies and her husband pleaded guilty on Thursday to charges arising out of their roles in what authorities have called one of the...
View ArticleSEC freezes assets of Utah-based Ponzi scheme operator
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission said on Thursday it had frozen the assets of the operator of a Utah-based Ponzi scheme that raised more than $207 million from...
View ArticleMichigan prosecutor to bring new criminal charges in Flint water scandal
DETROIT (Reuters) - The Michigan Attorney General's Office said on Thursday it will bring a second round of criminal charges related to the investigation into dangerous lead levels in the city of...
View ArticleExclusive: FBI probes hacking of Democratic congressional group - sources
By Joseph Menn, Dustin Volz and Mark HosenballSAN FRANCISCO/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The FBI is investigating a cyber attack against another U.S. Democratic Party group, which may be related to an...
View ArticleIn speech of her life, Clinton seeking to dispel doubts
PHILADELPHIA | BY JOHN WHITESIDES AND AMY TENNERYDemocrat Hillary Clinton will make her case for the White House on Thursday night, taking the stage at her nominating convention to try to dispel doubts...
View ArticleChelsea Manning faces discipline for prison suicide attempt: lawyers
By Steve Gorman(Reuters) - U.S. soldier Chelsea Manning, imprisoned for passing classified files to WikiLeaks, now stands accused of misconduct stemming from her suicide attempt earlier this month and...
View ArticleSan Diego police say officer fatally shot, another wounded
(Reuters) - A San Diego police officer was fatally shot and another was wounded on Thursday during a traffic stop as a suspect was taken in custody, local media reported and the department said on...
View ArticleWATCH: Ex-Pulaski Admin Pens Book
APPLETON, WI (WTAQ) - A Wisconsin educator with a familiar name and a unique story to tell has published his first book.Former Pulaski Superintendent Milt Thompson is tackling his own family history...
View ArticleFlorida reports evidence of local Zika transmission
BY BARBARA LISTONORLANDO, FLA. (Reuters) - Four people in Miami likely contracted Zika locally through mosquito bites, Florida's governor said on Friday, the first evidence that the virus tied to a...
View ArticleFlint Water Crisis: AG charges six state employees
FLINT, MICH. (WKZO-AM) -- Criminal charges have been submitted against six state workers in connection to Flint's lead-contaminated water crisis.They were levied against Department of Environmental...
View ArticleExclusive: Clinton campaign also hacked in attacks on Democrats - sources
WASHINGTON/SAN FRANCISCO | BY MARK HOSENBALL, JOSEPH MENN AND JOHN WALCOTTThe computer network used by Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton’s campaign was hacked as part of a broad cyber...
View ArticleHot air balloon catches fire, crashes in Texas; 16 feared dead
BY JON HERSKOVITZAUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - At least 16 people were feared dead after a hot air balloon caught fire and crashed in a pasture near the central Texas city of Lockhart on Saturday morning...
View ArticleTrump to Clinton: 'No more Mr. Nice Guy'
BY STEVE HOLLANDCOLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (Reuters) - U.S. Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump said he was taking the gloves off in his battle against Democrat Hillary Clinton in the race for...
View ArticleClinton says Russian intelligence services hacked DNC
UNDATED (Reuters) - U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton said Russian intelligence services hacked into Democratic National Committee computers and she accused Republican contender...
View ArticleFlorida nightclub backs off plans to reopen as memorial
TAMPA, Fla. (Reuters) - A gay nightclub in Florida that was the site in June of the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history on Monday cited an "inadvertent" social media post for reports that it...
View ArticleNew York to bar sex offenders on parole from playing Pokemon Go
By Laila KearneyNEW YORK (Reuters) - New York will bar registered sex offenders on parole from playing Pokemon Go over concerns that the wildly popular virtual reality game could help sexual predators...
View ArticleFormer L.A. county sheriff withdraws guilty plea in corruption probe
By Phoenix TsoLOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Former Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca on Monday withdrew his guilty plea to a charge of lying to investigators, opting instead to face trial in a corruption...
View ArticleJohnson, Feingold Debate in October
UNDATED (Wisconsin Radio Network) - U.S. Senator Ron Johnson (R-WI) and challenger Russ Feingold have agreed to meet in a debate this fall.The Republican Johnson and Democrat Feingold will both...
View ArticleU.S. wins ownership of rare 'double eagle' gold coins
By Jonathan Stempel(Reuters) - A federal appeals court on Monday said a cache of exceptionally rare gold coins stolen from the U.S. Mint in the 1930s belongs to the U.S. government, not the...
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