2nd controversial video of S.C. officer surfaces
A man claims Officer Michael Slager shot him in the back last summer with a Taser.Read More ...
Marco Rubio's presidential announcement
The 43-year-old GOP senator presents himself as a youthful, next-generation candidate.Read More ...
Ex-guards get lengthy prison sentences for Iraq shootings
WASHINGTON
(AP) — Rejecting pleas for mercy, a federal judge on Monday sentenced
former Blackwater security guard Nicholas Slatten to life in prison and
three others to 30-year terms for their roles in a 2007 shooting that
killed 14 Iraqi civilians and wounded 17 others.Read More ...
Ex-Blackwater guards sentenced to prison in Baghdad killings
By
Lindsay Dunsmuir WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A former Blackwater security
guard was sentenced to life in prison and three others got 30-year terms
on Monday in the massacre of 14 unarmed Iraqi civilians at a Baghdad
traffic circle in 2007, closing a case that had outraged Iraqis and
inflamed anti-U.S. sentiment around the world. The Sept. 16 incident
stood out for its brazenness and formed a tense backdrop to talks
between the United States and Iraq over the continued presence of U.S.
forces in Iraq. A heavily armed, four-truck Blackwater Worldwide convoy
the men were in had been trying to clear a path for U.S. diplomats.Read More ...
Oklahoma deputy charged with manslaughter in fatal Tulsa shooting
By
Heide Brandes OKLAHOMA CITY (Reuters) - Oklahoma prosecutors charged a
sheriff's reserve deputy with second-degree manslaughter on Monday in
the fatal shooting of a black man this month in Tulsa, the most recent
in a series of U.S. cases that have raised questions about race
relations and policing. Reserve deputy Robert Bates, 73 and white,
fatally shot Eric Harris, 44, an African-American, on April 2. Bates
thought he was using a Taser instead of his gun, the Tulsa Sheriff's
office said of the incident seen in a video released over the weekend.
Legal experts said second-degree manslaughter in Oklahoma can bring
between two and four years in prison.Read More ...
Former San Francisco 49er a suspect in death of prison cellmate
A former NFL running back for the San Francisco 49ers who was sent to a California prison for domestic violence, vehicle theft and other charges, is a suspect in the death of his cellmate, officials said on Monday. Lawrence Phillips, 39, was a suspect in the killing of 37-year-old Damion Soward, who was found unresponsive in the cell on Saturday and died at a local hospital the next day, Kern Valley State Prison spokesman Lieutenant Marshall Denning said in a statement. Phillips played for three NFL teams over four years in the 1990s, ending his career with the San Francisco 49ers in 1999. The statement said Phillips entered Kern Valley State Prison in the central California city of Delano in October 2008 and was serving a sentence of 31 years and four months for inflicting great bodily injury, corporal injury to spouse, false imprisonment and vehicle theft.
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'What’s that noise?' Plane takes off with worker in cargo hold
An Alaska Airlines flight made an emergency landing because a worker got trapped inside the cargo hold. How did it happen?Read More ...
Killer Jodi Arias gets life term with no chance for release
A
judge sentenced convicted murderer Jodi Arias to life in prison without
the possibility of release on Monday, ending a nearly seven-year-old
case that attracted worldwide attention with its salacious details.Read More ...
Oklahoma deputy charged in suspect's shooting death
OKLAHOMA
CITY (AP) — Prosecutors charged a reserve sheriff's deputy with
manslaughter Monday in the death of a man who was fatally shot as he lay
on the ground at the officer's feet — a shooting that was certain to
raise questions about the use of volunteer officers to supplement
full-time police.Read More ...
Marco Rubio tells donors he is running for White House
The Republican senator says he feels "uniquely qualified" to defend the American Dream.Read More ...
The Rubio record: From tea party hero to immigration reformer and beyond
Rubio’s
stint as conservative icon is now less a defining feature of his career
than it is a discordant footnote to his political story.Read More ...
Hillary Clinton hits the road in her 'Scooby van'
Shortly
after officially launching her 2016 presidential bid Sunday with a
video saying she wants to be the champion of “everyday Americans,“
Hillary Clinton hit the road for Iowa — in a minivan.Read More ...
As Clinton eyes presidency, so does Republican Rubio
The newly announced candidate boarded a simple minivan as she headed from New York to Iowa.Read More ...
One reported dead in shooting at N.C. community college
A campus in Goldsboro was on lockdown as authorities searched for a shooter.Read More ...
Shooting makes North Charleston chief's outreach job harder
NORTH
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — Eddie Driggers had been out of active policing
for five years when North Charleston Mayor Keith Summey offered him the
top job in South Carolina's third-largest city.Read More ...
Jordan Spieth wins the Masters in record fashion
Jordan Spieth went wire-to-wire to win the 2015 Masters in spectacular fashion.Read More ...
Final juror cuts continue in Colorado theater shooting trial
CENTENNIAL,
Colo. (AP) — The months-long process of selecting a jury in the
Colorado theater shooting case is nearing its end, the judge said as the
pool of prospective jurors, once numbering 9,000, was reduced to 93 on
Monday.Read More ...
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