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• Chilling images of scene inside Paris grocery
• U.S. journalist indicted in Iran, to be tried by hardline court
• Watch 2 Chainz and Nancy Grace debate marijuana legalization
• Exclusive: FBI raids Florida offices of firm with 'Wolf of Wall Street' link - witnesses
• House votes to undo Obama immigration policies
• Texas prison bus with 15 aboard hit by train, deaths reported
• U.S. judge rejects request to delay Boston bombing trial
• U.S. soldier tests negative for Ebola after death at Texas base
• Singapore navy finds fuselage of crashed AirAsia jet
• Yemen's al-Qaida claims Paris attack
• U.S. couple stand trial for grisly Bali suitcase murder
• ‘Vision Zero,’ one year on: NYC’s quest to reduce preventable traffic deaths
• Mexican mayor faces charges in kidnapping of 43 students
• Prosecutors detail assault as Vanderbilt University rape trial opens
• Convicted Virginia state legislator wins election while in jail
• Huge crowd gathers to see pope give Sri Lanka first saint
• Tsarnaev lawyers ask for delay in Boston jury selection due to Paris attacks
• Feds: Ohio bartender contemplated poisoning Speaker Boehner
• Tsarnaev lawyers: Suspend jury selection over France attacks
• U.S. police organizations criticize response to alleged brutality
• Yosemite climbers expect to reach top of El Capitan on Wednesday

Chilling images of scene inside Paris grocery Posted: 14 Jan 2015 01:42 PM PST New footage shows Amedy Coulibaly holding hostages and issuing orders to staffers.

U.S. journalist indicted in Iran, to be tried by hardline court Posted: 14 Jan 2015 01:26 PM PST DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran's judiciary has indicted American journalist Jason Rezaian and sent his case to be tried in a hardline Revolutionary Court, the official IRNA news agency reported late on Wednesday. Rezaian is the Washington Post's bureau chief in Tehran and holds Iranian-American dual citizenship. He was arrested five months ago along with his wife and two associates on unspecified charges. All but Rezaian have since been freed. "Rezaian has been charged and his case has been forwarded to the Revolutionary Court," IRNA quoted Tehran Chief Prosecutor Abbas Jafari Dolatabadi as saying. ...

Watch 2 Chainz and Nancy Grace debate marijuana legalization Posted: 14 Jan 2015 12:36 PM PST The rapper and HLN television host sparred over pot legalization on Tuesday night.

Exclusive: FBI raids Florida offices of firm with 'Wolf of Wall Street' link - witnesses Posted: 14 Jan 2015 10:27 AM PST WASHINGTON/BOCA RATON, FL. (Reuters) - U.S. FBI agents on Wednesday raided the offices of Med-Care Diabetic & Medical Supplies Inc, a Florida medical device company whose executive vice president helped inspire the movie "The Wolf of Wall Street," according to two witnesses.     Dozens of agents from the FBI, Florida fraud department, and local police closed entrances to the building that houses Med-Care, and are removing boxes of files, one of the witnesses said. ...

House votes to undo Obama immigration policies Posted: 14 Jan 2015 09:41 AM PST WASHINGTON (AP) — The Republican U.S. House voted Wednesday to overturn President Barack Obama's key immigration policies, approving legislation that would eliminate new deportation protections for millions and expose hundreds of thousands of younger immigrants to expulsion.

Texas prison bus with 15 aboard hit by train, deaths reported Posted: 14 Jan 2015 08:52 AM PST AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - A Texas prison bus carrying 15 people was hit by train on Wednesday, prison officials said, with local media saying at least four people were killed in the accident. The bus with 12 inmates and three corrections officers was traveling from Abilene to El Paso when it veered off the roadway and ended up on railroad tracks, the Texas Department of Criminal Justice said based on preliminary reports. The accident took place near the western Texas city of Odessa. The local CBS affiliate said officials at the scene reported at least four people were killed. ...

U.S. judge rejects request to delay Boston bombing trial Posted: 14 Jan 2015 07:17 AM PST By Scott Malone BOSTON (Reuters) - A U.S. judge on Wednesday rejected the latest plea by lawyers for accused Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev to pause jury selection for his trial due to the recent attacks in Paris. Tsarnaev's lawyers on Tuesday had argued that the Paris attacks, which started with a mass shooting at a satirical newspaper and left 17 people dead after three days of violence, would stir memories of the deadly 2013 blasts at the marathon, making it harder to select an impartial jury. ...

U.S. soldier tests negative for Ebola after death at Texas base Posted: 14 Jan 2015 05:23 AM PST By Jim Forsyth SAN ANTONIO, Texas (Reuters) - Tests confirm that a U.S. Army soldier who just returned from West Africa and was found dead near his Texas base where he was posted was not infected with Ebola, Fort Hood officials said late Tuesday.  Army officials had been awaiting those results from more conclusive tests after an initial screening showed the soldier, who was self-monitoring for symptoms, had not been infected with the virus. ...

Singapore navy finds fuselage of crashed AirAsia jet Posted: 14 Jan 2015 05:07 AM PST A Singapore navy ship has found the fuselage of the AirAsia plane that crashed into the sea late last month with 162 people on board, the city-state's defence chief said Wednesday. Defence Minister Ng Eng Hen said in a Facebook post he had been informed that one of Singapore's navy ships involved in the search, MV Swift Rescue, "has located the fuselage of the AirAsia plane in the Java Sea". He said that images taken by a remotely operated vehicle "show part of the wing and words on the fuselage".

Yemen's al-Qaida claims Paris attack Posted: 14 Jan 2015 03:30 AM PST In a video message, the group says it was behind last week's Charlie Hebdo massacre.

U.S. couple stand trial for grisly Bali suitcase murder Posted: 14 Jan 2015 02:27 AM PST DENPASAR, Indonesia (Reuters) - A U.S. man and his pregnant girlfriend went on trial on Wednesday for the murder of the woman's mother, whose battered body was found stuffed in a suitcase on Indonesia's resort island of Bali last August. Tommy Schaefer and Heather Mack, both from Chicago, could face the death penalty if found guilty of the murder of Sheila von Wiese-Mack. "He is charged with premeditated murder, torture that led to death and hiding or disposal of the body," state prosecutor Eddy Wijaya told reporters after the first day of hearings at Denpasar District Court. ...

‘Vision Zero,’ one year on: NYC’s quest to reduce preventable traffic deaths Posted: 14 Jan 2015 01:56 AM PST A year after Mayor Bill de Blasio announced that New York City would begin to consider pedestrian fatalities as a top priority, advocates take stock.

Mexican mayor faces charges in kidnapping of 43 students Posted: 14 Jan 2015 12:07 AM PST MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - The former mayor of the southwestern city of Iguala has been charged with last year's kidnapping of 43 students who are feared to have been killed, a top security official said on Tuesday. Tomas Zeron, director of criminal investigations at the federal Attorney General's office, said that prosecutors had obtained an arrest warrant for former mayor Jose Luis Abarca and 44 others on charges of kidnapping the 43 students. President Enrique Pena Nieto is facing his deepest crisis over the government's handling of the investigation. ...

Prosecutors detail assault as Vanderbilt University rape trial opens Posted: 13 Jan 2015 10:11 PM PST By Tim Ghianni NASHVILLE, Tenn. (Reuters) - Prosecutors recounted graphic crime details on Tuesday at the opening of a trial of two former Vanderbilt University football players charged with raping a female student at the school in 2013. The woman was raped and sodomized by Brandon Vandenburg and Cory Batey while unconscious in Vandenburg's dorm room on the morning of June 23, 2013, Deputy District Attorney General Tom Thurman told the jury. Thurman added that Batey urinated on the victim while using racial slurs and the rape was recorded on a cell phone. ...

Convicted Virginia state legislator wins election while in jail Posted: 13 Jan 2015 08:35 PM PST By Gary Robertson RICHMOND, Va. (Reuters) - Joseph D. Morrissey, a longtime Virginia legislator who ran his latest campaign while serving a jail sentence for contributing to the delinquency of a minor, on Tuesday won his bid for re-election to the state House of Delegates in a special election. With all precincts reporting in Virginia's 74th house district, unofficial returns showed Morrissey, a former Democrat turned independent, capturing 42.3 percent of the vote. ...

Huge crowd gathers to see pope give Sri Lanka first saint Posted: 13 Jan 2015 07:47 PM PST By Frank Jack Daniel and Shihar Aneez COLOMBO (Reuters) - Hundreds of thousands of people packed a Colombo oceanfront on Wednesday to see Pope Francis give Sri Lanka its first saint, a climax to a 300-year campaign to recognize the holiness of Indian-born missionary Joseph Vaz. The pope, who on Tuesday was tired after starting his trip under a blazing sun, looked rested as he was driven through the hushed crowd in an open vehicle to start the open-air Mass by the sparkling sea. After watching a troupe of traditional dancers, he greeted people on foot. ...

Tsarnaev lawyers ask for delay in Boston jury selection due to Paris attacks Posted: 13 Jan 2015 05:56 PM PST By Scott Malone BOSTON (Reuters) - Attorneys for accused Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev on Tuesday asked a federal judge in Boston to postpone jury selection for Tsarnaev's trial on charges of killing three and wounding more than 260 people in the bombing attack during the 2013 marathon. Attorneys for Tsarnaev, 21, said recent attacks on a satirical magazine in Paris would make it all but impossible to seat an impartial jury, a process that began last week. ...

Feds: Ohio bartender contemplated poisoning Speaker Boehner Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:18 PM PST Michael Hoyt is suspected to have contemplated poisoning House Speaker John Boehner, a Republican, and has been charged with threatening to murder a U.S. official, court documents showed on Tuesday. Michael Hoyt, who had long served Boehner at a country club in Ohio and checked into a psychiatric facility after he was questioned by police, was indicted on the charge on Jan. 7, court papers said. ...

Tsarnaev lawyers: Suspend jury selection over France attacks Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:02 PM PST Attorneys for Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev are asking a judge to suspend jury selection in his trial for at least a month because of the terror attacks in France.

U.S. police organizations criticize response to alleged brutality Posted: 13 Jan 2015 01:53 PM PST By Julia Edwards WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. police are being unfairly targeted in response to allegations of police brutality, leaders from three police organizations said at the first public meeting of U.S. President Barack Obama's policing task force on Tuesday. In a tense back and forth, Fraternal Order of Police President Chuck Canterbury told the task force that the media and public figures often rush to judgment against officers involved in fatal shootings rather than respecting due process. ...

Yosemite climbers expect to reach top of El Capitan on Wednesday Posted: 13 Jan 2015 01:38 PM PST By Dan Whitcomb LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Two climbers trying to become the first to scale a 3,000-foot (900-meter) face of the El Capitan rock formation in Yosemite National Park in California without bolts or climbing tools believe they will reach the top on Wednesday, representatives said. Tommy Caldwell and Kevin Jorgeson, who began their latest attempt to conquer El Capitan on Dec. 27, started climbing the final 11 "pitches" of the so-called Dawn Wall on Tuesday, spokeswoman Jess Clayton said. ...

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