Crime
Prosecutor: 3 Ohioans enslaved disabled mom, child
A mentally disabled woman charged with shoplifting a candy bar asked to be jailed because three people "had been mean to her" — then went on to tell authorities about her time spent in unfathomably cruel servitude, along with her young daughter, at the hands of three people, authorities said ...
Brazil protesters keep up pressure on government
Thousands of demonstrators flooded a square in Brazil's economic hub, Sao Paulo, on Tuesday evening for the latest in a historic wave of protests against the shoddy state of public transit, schools and other public services in this booming South American giant. Sparked earlier this month by a 10-cent hike ...
Jury can't reach verdict in Detroit cop's trial
A judge declared a mistrial Tuesday after jurors failed to reach a verdict in the trial of a Detroit police officer who fatally shot a 7-year-old girl during a chaotic search for a murder suspect that was recorded by a reality TV crew. Loud voices could be heard in the ...
Okla. executes inmate convicted of killing couple
Oklahoma executed a 36-year-old man on Tuesday for the October 2000 stabbing deaths of a couple on whose ranch he had worked. James Lewis DeRosa was killed by lethal injection at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester. He was the second inmate the state executed this year. Prosecutors say DeRosa ...
N. Calif. teacher charged with classroom sex abuse
A decade after a conviction for possession of child pornography, a former elementary school teacher from Northern California has been charged with the classroom sexual abuse of a second-grade boy 15 years ago. The San Francisco Chronicle reports Tuesday (bit.ly/13RdPSY) that Alameda County prosecutors have charged 63-year-old Michael Schoop with ...
Man flags down police to surrender after robbery
Evansville police say a man flagged down police and surrendered after a convenience store robbery. Police say 36-year-old John Long flagged down a cruiser about 3:45 a.m. Tuesday and told an officer that he had robbed a store. The Evansville Courier & Press reports (http://bit.ly/19gNkZd ) a clerk at a ...
Republicans negotiate changes to Wisconsin budget
Republicans privately negotiated a series of last-minute changes to the Wisconsin budget Tuesday designed to smooth its passage, including removing a cap on a popular tax credit program for disabled veterans and delaying the loosening of requirements for high-capacity wells. The changes, discussed among Republican legislative leaders in both the ...
Judge dismisses petition seeking custody of child
A Missouri judge used a technicality Tuesday dismiss a former soldier's petition seeking custody and child support payments from a teenager he impregnated when she was 14 years old. The petition came in the guardianship and adoption case filed by the mother's parents, who were seeking to permanently block him ...
Utah man shot in church upgraded to fair condition
A Utah man shot in the head during a Father's Day Mass was upgraded to fair condition Tuesday — just a few hours after his son-in-law was charged with attempted homicide in the shooting. On his 66th birthday, James Evans was moved out of the intensive care unit at McDay-Dee ...
House passes far-reaching anti-abortion bill
The Republican-led House on Tuesday passed a far-reaching anti-abortion bill that conservatives saw as a milestone in their 40-year campaign against legalized abortion and Democrats condemned as yet another example of the GOP war on women. The legislation, sparked by the murder conviction of a Philadelphia late-term abortion provider, would ...
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