Prison worker smuggled escape tools in meat
Joyce Mitchell put hacksaw blades and other tools in hamburger meat, the DA says.Read More ...
Arrest video reveals officers’ emotions after capturing Dylann Roof
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Big retailers feel pressure on Confederate flag merchandise
Even
as national retailers pull Confederate flags from shelves and websites
after the shooting deaths of nine black church members in South
Carolina, manufacturers that produce the divisive symbol say that sales
are now surging.Read More ...
Battle over Confederate flag unfurls in South Carolina and beyond
By
Harriet McLeod COLUMBIA, S.C. (Reuters) - An initiative to remove the
Confederate flag from the South Carolina State House grounds picked up
steam on Tuesday, a week after the massacre of nine black church
members, and criticism over the emblem long associated with slavery
spread to other U.S. southern states. U.S. retailers joined lawmakers in
distancing themselves from the banner, with industry leaders Amazon.com
Inc and Wal-Mart Stores Inc pulling the images of the rebel flag from
their stores and websites, joining Google Inc , Sears Holdings Corp and
eBay Inc . The Civil War-era flag of the South's pro-slavery Confederacy
has become a lightning rod for outrage over the shootings in
Charleston, South Carolina, which authorities say was motivated by
racial hatred.Read More ...
Autopsy shows Freddie Gray died of 'high-energy injury': Baltimore newspaper
The
spinal injury to Freddie Gray, whose death in April triggered protests
and rioting, was most likely caused when the police van in which he was
riding suddenly decelerated, the newspaper said. The state medical
examiner's office concluded that Gray's death fit the medical and legal
definition of an accident. Gray, 25, was arrested on April 12 following a
foot chase by officers and suffered a severe spinal injury while in
police custody.Read More ...
Thunderstorms lash U.S. Mid-Atlantic, disrupt travel, cut power
By
Ian Simpson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Powerful thunderstorms packing heavy
rain and high winds lashed the U.S. Middle Atlantic area late on
Tuesday, snarling travel and cutting off power to hundreds of thousands
of customers. The fast-moving band of storms stretching from Virginia to
southern New Jersey dumped up to an inch (2.5 cm) of rain in less than
an hour in some places, said Jim Hayes, a National Weather Service
meteorologist in College Park, Maryland. Private forecaster AccuWeather
said the storms would reach into northern New England through the
evening as a cold front intersected with hot and humid air.Read More ...
SC lawmakers overwhelmingly vote to debate Confederate flag
For
years, South Carolina lawmakers refused to revisit the Confederate flag
on Statehouse grounds, saying the law that took it off the dome was a
bipartisan compromise, and renewing the debate would unnecessarily
expose divisive wounds.Read More ...
Confederate controversy spreads well beyond S.C.
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Senate vote moves Obama's trade agenda to brink of enactment
WASHINGTON
(AP) — President Barack Obama's long-pursued trade agenda took a giant
step toward becoming law on Tuesday, and opponents grudgingly conceded
they now must fight on less-favorable terrain.Read More ...
Mistrial declared in rape case against two former Vanderbilt players
The decision was made after defense attorneys argued last week that one of the jurors was biased.Read More ...
Joyce Mitchell’s husband: ‘Do I still love her? Yes. Am I mad? Yes’
The
husband of Joyce Mitchell, the New York prison worker accused of
helping two convicted killers escape, says he knew nothing of his wife’s
alleged role in the plot until he was able to speak with her after her
arrest.Read More ...
US to put military equipment in several European countries
TALLINN,
Estonia (AP) — The U.S. will spread about 250 tanks, armored vehicles
and other military equipment across six former Soviet bloc nations to
help reassure NATO allies facing threats from Russia and terrorist
groups, Defense Secretary Ash Carter announced Tuesday.Read More ...
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