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• Vietnam veteran in Georgia pleads to be spared the death penalty
• Keystone clears hurdles, stage set for Washington showdown
• London cleric Abu Hamza sentenced to life in U.S. prison
• Arizona court to release convicted killer Jodi Arias’ secret testimony
• Radical imam Abu Hamza sentenced to life in prison
• 2014 was best hiring year since '99; jobless rate 5.6 pct.
• Shooting, explosions at French gunmen siege
• Gunman to kill market hostages if police storm brothers
• A weekend of bitter cold due for eastern United States
• Nebraska Supreme Court backs Keystone XL pipeline route
• Court to weigh overturning gay marriage bans in three southern states
• U.S. eco-bombing plotter released early by California judge
• Executives plead not guilty over West Virginia chemical spill: media
• French police convoy rushes to detain shooting suspects
• Indonesia: Pings detected in search for AirAsia jet's black box
• Sources: Suspect sought in Paris shooting trained in Yemen
• Record-breaking cold closes U.S. schools, sends penguins inside
• Videos, pictures show danger and beauty of cold snap across U.S.
• Ohio to change execution drugs after inmate's prolonged death
• NYC police to reform public housing stop-and-frisk in settlement
• 2 brothers now the most-wanted men in France

Vietnam veteran in Georgia pleads to be spared the death penalty Posted: 09 Jan 2015 01:44 PM PST By David Beasley ATLANTA (Reuters) - Lawyers for a decorated Vietnam War veteran due to be executed in Georgia next week say his life should be spared because he was suffering from a combat-related mental disorder when he killed a sheriff's deputy in 1998. Andrew Brannan's guilt is not disputed. He shot Laurens County Deputy Sheriff Kyle Dinkheller, 22, nine times during a traffic stop, a scene caught on tape by the deputy's patrol car camera. ...

Keystone clears hurdles, stage set for Washington showdown Posted: 09 Jan 2015 01:27 PM PST By Patrick Rucker and Timothy Gardner WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Keystone XL oil pipeline cleared two hurdles on Friday, setting up a showdown between Congress and President Barack Obama who has raised new questions about the project after more than six years of review. Following months of deliberation, the Nebraska Supreme Court allowed a route for the pipeline to cross the state, shifting the debate over TransCanada Corp's project fully to Washington, where Republicans now in control of Congress are seeking to force its final approval. ...

London cleric Abu Hamza sentenced to life in U.S. prison Posted: 09 Jan 2015 11:49 AM PST By Joseph Ax NEW YORK (Reuters) - The radical London cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri was sentenced to life in a U.S. prison on Friday for his conviction on terrorism-related charges, including his role in the 1998 kidnapping of Western tourists in Yemen that left four hostages dead. U.S. District Judge Katherine Forrest in Manhattan imposed the sentence on the one-eyed, handless Abu Hamza, whom jurors found guilty last May of providing a satellite phone and advice to the kidnappers. ...

Arizona court to release convicted killer Jodi Arias’ secret testimony Posted: 09 Jan 2015 11:00 AM PST By David Schwartz PHOENIX (Reuters) - An Arizona judge ordered the release of testimony made behind closed doors by convicted murderer Jodi Arias as she seeks to avoid the death penalty, following a ruling by the state's supreme court, court documents showed on Friday. Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Sherry Stephens ruled that transcripts for Oct. 30 and Nov. 3 be unsealed after the Arizona Supreme Court denied a bid by defense lawyers to block the move, claiming it would hurt Arias' right to a fair trial. ...

Radical imam Abu Hamza sentenced to life in prison Posted: 09 Jan 2015 10:44 AM PST NEW YORK (Reuters) - Radical imam Abu Hamza al-Masri was sentenced on Friday to life in prison, eight months after he was convicted of federal terrorism charges in New York. The one-eyed, handless Abu Hamza was found guilty of providing a satellite phone and advice to Yemeni militants who kidnapped Western tourists in 1998. He was also convicted of sending two followers to Oregon to establish a militant training camp, and dispatching an associate to Afghanistan to aid al Qaeda and the Taliban against the United States. ...

2014 was best hiring year since '99; jobless rate 5.6 pct. Posted: 09 Jan 2015 10:11 AM PST The United States capped its best year for hiring in 15 years with a healthy gain in December, and the unemployment rate hit a six-year low. The numbers support expectations that the United States will ...

Shooting, explosions at French gunmen siege Posted: 09 Jan 2015 08:26 AM PST DAMMARTIN-EN-GOELE, France (Reuters) - Several rounds of automatic gunfire rang out, accompanied by loud explosions, at a print works north of Paris where security forces had encircled the two suspects in the Charlie Hebdo killings and a hostage, a Reuters reporter said. Smoke came from the building in an industrial zone near the town of Dammartin-en-Goele. Earlier, at least four armed security force members were seen on its roof. (Reporting by John Irish; Editing by James Regan)

Gunman to kill market hostages if police storm brothers Posted: 09 Jan 2015 08:07 AM PST A police official says the gunman holding at least five hostages in a kosher market in eastern Paris has threatened to kill them if police launch an assault on the cornered brothers suspected in the newspaper ...

A weekend of bitter cold due for eastern United States Posted: 09 Jan 2015 07:30 AM PST (Reuters) - Bitterly cold weather in the eastern United States is forecast to persist until Sunday, the National Weather Service said. The service warned of dangerous, windy winter storms in Michigan that would leave behind a foot or more of snow. Daytime temperatures were forecast to remain below 10 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 12 C) in parts of the upper Midwest, the Ohio Valley and New England. Light snow was expected across much of the Northeast on Friday, and New York City awoke to horizontal wind swirls of snow. ...

Nebraska Supreme Court backs Keystone XL pipeline route Posted: 09 Jan 2015 06:58 AM PST By Aruna Viswanatha and Patrick Rucker WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Nebraska Supreme Court on Friday approved the route for the controversial Keystone XL oil pipeline, reversing a lower court that had blocked the proposal and clearing the way for a U.S. State Department ruling on the plan. The court said it was divided and could not reach a substantive decision, leaving in place legislation that favored TransCanada Corp and its claim to build a crude oil pipeline across the state. ...

Court to weigh overturning gay marriage bans in three southern states Posted: 09 Jan 2015 04:33 AM PST By Jonathan Kaminsky NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - A federal appeals court is set on Friday to weigh whether to strike down same-sex marriage bans in the conservative southern states of Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi. A three-judge panel will hear arguments about gay marriage bans in the three states, setting up a possible decision that could allow gay marriages to go ahead. The hearings before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit come as momentum builds nationwide to allow same-sex marriage, which is now legal in 36 states. Also on Friday, U.S. ...

U.S. eco-bombing plotter released early by California judge Posted: 09 Jan 2015 03:44 AM PST By Eric M. Johnson (Reuters) - A California man described by prosecutors as an "eco-terrorist" was ordered released from prison by a U.S. judge after serving about half of an almost 20 year prison sentence for plotting to blow up a federal forestry site, court documents show. Eric McDavid, then 29, was sentenced in May 2008 to 235 months in a federal prison. He had been convicted by a jury after two co-conspirators pleaded guilty and cooperated with the government and served nearly nine years in prison. Federal prosecutors said the three defendants planned to attack targets including the U.S. ...

Executives plead not guilty over West Virginia chemical spill: media Posted: 09 Jan 2015 02:08 AM PST BECKLEY, W. Va. (Reuters) - Three former executives pleaded not guilty on Thursday to charges stemming from a chemical spill that fouled drinking water for about 300,000 West Virginians, media reported. Prosecutors in December accused Freedom Industries Inc, its former president Gary Southern and other officers of negligence and fraud after the discharge of a chemical pollutant into the Elk River near Charleston a year ago. The leak of a chemical foam used to wash coal breached a containment area one mile (1. ...

French police convoy rushes to detain shooting suspects Posted: 09 Jan 2015 01:20 AM PST Police are pursuing the two suspects after they stole a car amid gunfire

Indonesia: Pings detected in search for AirAsia jet's black box Posted: 08 Jan 2015 08:18 PM PST By Charlotte Greenfield and Kanupriya Kapoor JAKARTA/PANGKALAN BUN (Reuters) - Indonesia search and rescue teams hunting for the wreck of an AirAsia passenger jet detected pings in their efforts to find the black box recorders on Friday, 12 days after the plane went missing with 162 people on board, an official said. Indonesia AirAsia Flight QZ8501 vanished from radar screens on Dec. 28, less than half way into a two-hour flight from Indonesia's second-biggest city of Surabaya to Singapore. There were no survivors. ...

Sources: Suspect sought in Paris shooting trained in Yemen Posted: 08 Jan 2015 04:59 PM PST One of two brothers suspected of carrying out the deadly attacks has been linked to militants.

Record-breaking cold closes U.S. schools, sends penguins inside Posted: 08 Jan 2015 04:25 PM PST By Barbara Goldberg (Reuters) - Record-breaking cold that gripped the U.S. East and Midwest on Thursday snarled travel, shut schools, filled homeless shelters and even led to zoo penguins being ordered inside. Snow expected to accumulate to 3 feet (1 meter) deep was falling in upstate New York near Watertown, and snow already blanketing South Dakota was whipped by winds into a "ground blizzard" that made driving treacherous, said meteorologist Dan Petersen of the National Weather Service. ...

Videos, pictures show danger and beauty of cold snap across U.S. Posted: 08 Jan 2015 03:51 PM PST Americans are bundling up as a cold snap roars across the country, causing temperatures to plunge and creating hazardous driving conditions.

Ohio to change execution drugs after inmate's prolonged death Posted: 08 Jan 2015 02:12 PM PST By Kim Palmer CLEVELAND (Reuters) - Ohio will halt use of the two-drug lethal injection combination that led to the protracted death of an inmate a year ago and has postponed an execution scheduled for February, officials said on Thursday. The state prison system is seeking to add a drug used for lethal injections from 1999 to 2011, thiopental sodium, to pentobarbital as the two drugs permitted for lethal injections in the future, said JoEllen Smith, spokeswoman for the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction. Either can be used, she said. ...

NYC police to reform public housing stop-and-frisk in settlement Posted: 08 Jan 2015 01:56 PM PST By Joseph Ax NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York City's police department has agreed to reform its stop-and-frisk practices in public housing projects as part of a proposed settlement in a federal class action lawsuit, the latest step in altering a broad policing strategy that critics assailed as unconstitutional. The preliminary settlement, which requires approval from U.S. District Judge Shira Scheindlin in Manhattan, would mandate changes to police regulations and training materials that govern patrols in public housing, among other reforms. ...

2 brothers now the most-wanted men in France Posted: 08 Jan 2015 01:36 PM PST One was an aspiring rapper before being jailed on terror charges and turning radical in prison.

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