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Jailed 11 years for murder, Kennedy cousin could be freed on bail

Jailed 11 years for murder, Kennedy cousin could be freed on bail

With the aid of Richard Weizel MILFORD, Connecticut (Reuters) – Kennedy cousin Michael Skakel might walk out of Stamford Advanced Court docket a free man on Thursday after spending the prior 11 years in prison for the 1975 homicide of a teenage neighbor in Greenwich, Connecticut. Prosecutors mentioned their simplest […]

 
 

Charges dropped against girls in Florida cyberbullying case

Charges dropped against girls in Florida cyberbullying case

Via Barbara Liston ORLANDO, Florida (Reuters) – Florida prosecutors dropped expenses on Wednesday in opposition to two ladies accused of stalking a 12-year-outdated classmate who killed herself after complaining she was once bullied online for months, a police respectable said. Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd advised newshounds the two ladies, […]

 
 

Evangelist Billy Graham in hospital for respiratory issue

Evangelist Billy Graham in hospital for respiratory issue

WINSTON-SALEM, North Carolina (Reuters) – U.S. evangelist Billy Graham is being treated for respiratory congestion and is expected to be hospitalized for a couple of days, his spokesman stated on Wednesday. Graham, who celebrated his 95th birthday earlier this month at a birthday celebration attended with the aid of virtually […]

 
 

Missouri executes serial killer after Supreme Court clears way

Missouri serial killer Joseph Paul Franklin was carried out by way of lethal injection on Wednesday after the U.S. Supreme Courtroom cleared the way in which for him to be put to loss of life for murdering a man outside a synagogue in 1977, a corrections spokesman stated. Franklin, 63, […]

 
 

Oregon healthcare exchange website never worked, has no subscribers

Oregon healthcare exchange website never worked, has no subscribers

Oregon, a state that absolutely embraced the Reasonably priced Care Act, is enduring one of the vital rockiest rollouts of President Back Obama's signature health care law, with an inoperative online exchange that has yet to enroll a single subscriber, requiring lots to apply on paper instead. Not like most […]

 
 

In Oklahoma, water, fracking – and a swarm of quakes

In Oklahoma, water, fracking – and a swarm of quakes

Through Carey Gillam NORMAN, Oklahoma (Reuters) – Seismologist Austin Holland needs to start an earthquake. From his office just a few feet under the earth's surface – a basement at the College of Oklahoma in Norman – Holland, who tracks quakes for the Oklahoma Geological Survey, is digging into a […]

 
 

Secret U.S. court approved wider NSA spying even after finding excesses

Secret U.S. court approved wider NSA spying even after finding excesses

By Joseph Menn SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – A secret U.S. intelligence courtroom let the Nationwide Safety Company gather an extended quantity of knowledge about American citizens' electronic mail even after discovering that the agency systematically handed the bounds of a smaller application, newly launched documents exhibit. The judge on the […]

 
 

Security risks to U.S. healthcare portal, experts testify in Congress

Security risks to U.S. healthcare portal, experts testify in Congress

Republicans opened a second entrance of their political struggle towards President Barack Obama's healthcare program on Tuesday, with a coordinated effort to persuade Americans not handiest that its major enrollment site is damaged however that private information is at risk of theft. In a Republican-sponsored listening to within the U.S. […]

 
 

George Zimmerman arrested for domestic violence in Florida: police

MIAMI (Reuters) – George Zimmerman, who was once acquitted this summer season within the fatal capturing of unarmed black teenager Trayvon Martin, was arrested in Florida on Monday after he allegedly pointed a shotgun at his female friend all over a home dispute, police stated. …

 
 

Oklahoma probes skeletal remains for link to family missing four years

(Reuters) – Three sets of skeletal remains revealed in rural Oklahoma over the weekend may be tied to a 2009 case during which two adults and a child went lacking, the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation mentioned on Monday. The is still, found out by deer hunters near Quinton, a […]

 
 

Survivors of deadly Midwest tornado sift through wreckage

With the aid of Mary Wisniewski WASHINGTON, Illinois (Reuters) – When an impressive tornado bore down on the small metropolis of Washington, Illinois, on Sunday, Ryan Bowers took his wife’s advice and sheltered in the basement with their 2-half of yr-previous daughter and their pet canines. Winds of as much […]

 
 

Six killed as tornadoes rip through U.S. Midwest

By using Mary Wisniewski WASHINGTON, Illinois (Reuters) – A fast-shifting storm device caused a couple of tornadoes on Sunday that killed as a minimum six individuals and flattened massive parts of a town in Illinois because it tore across the Midwest, authorities mentioned. The tornadoes leveled rankings of properties and […]

 
 

New York to spend $37.5 million on LaGuardia Airport flood defenses

New York to spend $37.5 million on LaGuardia Airport flood defenses

New York State plans to spend $37.5 million on flood obstacles and more advantageous drainage at LaGuardia Airport, Governor Andrew Cuomo mentioned on Sunday, somewhat more than a yr after flooding as a result of Typhoon Sandy closed the facility for 3 days. Work has already begun on the projects, […]

 
 

Drone malfunctions, hits U.S. Navy ship during training

Drone malfunctions, hits U.S. Navy ship during training

(Reuters) – An aerial target drone malfunctioned and crashed into a United States Navy ship off the coast of southern California on Saturday, leaving two sailors with minor burns, a Navy spokeswoman said. Two Navy ships have been concerned about tracking the unmanned drone as part of a coaching train […]

 
 

Judge rejects bid to move murderer Jodi Arias sentencing retrial

Judge rejects bid to move murderer Jodi Arias sentencing retrial

By way of David Schwartz PHOENIX (Reuters) – An Arizona judge has rejected a bid by way of convicted boyfriend killer Jodi Arias to maneuver her sentencing phase retrial from Phoenix regardless of the widespread publicity surrounding the sensational homicide case, courtroom documents confirmed on Friday. Maricopa County Superior Courtroom […]