| Ferguson police chief to resign later Wednesday: Fox News Posted: 11 Mar 2015 12:07 PM PDT  (Reuters) - The police chief of Ferguson, Missouri, will resign later on Wednesday, Fox News reported, citing police sources. CNN, meanwhile, reported Ferguson Police Chief Thomas Jackson has indicated he is willing to step down but first wants to ensure that the police department stays in place and is not dissolved. Fox said Chief Tom Jackson was not pushed out or fired. Protesters have called for his removal since the shooting of an unarmed black teenager last summer, which led to a Justice Department probe that found his department followed racially biased practices.
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| New Hampshire lawmakers to consider decriminalizing marijuana Posted: 11 Mar 2015 08:45 AM PDT Lawmakers in New Hampshire are expected to vote Wednesday on a bill that would decriminalize the possession of small amounts of marijuana and treat it like a traffic violation, in line with laws in the other New England states. The bill, which the state's House of Representatives is expected to pass, would eliminate criminal penalties for possessing up to a half ounce (14 grams) of marijuana, instead making it a civil violation punishable by a $100 fine. It is unclear if the bill would be signed by Governor Maggie Hassan, a Democrat who approved the state law allowing medical marijuana but has said she would veto a decriminalization bill. |
| Republican lawmaker vows to summon Clinton for testimony by April Posted: 11 Mar 2015 08:26 AM PDT  A leading Republican critic of Hillary Clinton said on Wednesday he wants the former secretary of state to testify about her controversial use of personal email for government work by April, timing that could coincide with her expected launch of a 2016 presidential campaign. "I would like to have it done by April," Representative Trey Gowdy, a South Carolina Republican who chairs a congressional committee investigating the 2012 attacks on a U.S. diplomatic facility in Benghazi, Libya, said on Wednesday. He told MSNBC he wanted answers on the emails "sooner rather than later," and said other congressional panels could also take Clinton to task over her use of a private email address and a private server at her home in New York state for official emails, rather than using government systems. Democratic sources have said Clinton, who is the frontrunner among potential Democratic candidates, could formally announce her plans as early as April.
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| AP sues State Dept. over access to Clinton records Posted: 11 Mar 2015 08:08 AM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Associated Press filed a lawsuit Wednesday against the State Department to force the release of email correspondence and government documents from Hillary Rodham Clinton's tenure as secretary of state.
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| Man who killed 'American Sniper' sent to Texas prison psychiatric unit Posted: 11 Mar 2015 06:59 AM PDT  By Jon Herskovitz AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - The man convicted last month of murdering former U.S. Navy SEAL Chris Kyle, whose best-selling autobiography was turned into the movie "American Sniper," has been transferred to Texas prison psychiatric unit, officials said on Wednesday. Eddie Ray Routh, 27, a former U.S. Marine, was found guilty on Feb. 24 of fatally shooting Kyle and Kyle's friend Chad Littlefield multiple times at a gun range about 70 miles (110 km) southwest of Fort Worth in February 2013. Routh was sentenced by a Texas judge to life in prison without the possibility of parole. He was transferred this week to the Jester IV unit, a psychiatric facility in Richmond, prison officials said.
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| Wisconsin protest planned after Madison police shooting Posted: 11 Mar 2015 04:16 AM PDT  By Brendan O'Brien MADISON, Wis. (Reuters) - A mass demonstration is planned on Wednesday at the Wisconsin corrections department in Madison in response to the fatal police shooting last week of an unarmed biracial teenager. The shooting of Tony Robinson, 19, by a white Madison veteran police officer on Friday is the latest in a string of officer-involved deaths around the nation that have intensified concerns about racial bias in U.S. law enforcement. The officer who shot Robinson, Matt Kenny, had responded to calls about a man who had battered someone and was dodging traffic in the street, police have said. The demonstrations over Robinson's death, although peaceful, have brought back memories of the sometimes violent clashes that erupted in Ferguson, Missouri, in August after Michael Brown, 18, was fatally shot and in November after a grand jury declined to approve charges against the officer who shot him.
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| 7 Marines, 4 soldiers missing after helicopter crashes Posted: 11 Mar 2015 03:24 AM PDT  The copter crashed during a training exercise at Florida's Eglin Air Force Base.
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| Japan marks 4th anniversary of quake-tsunami disaster Posted: 10 Mar 2015 10:58 PM PDT  Japan marked the fourth anniversary Wednesday of the quake-tsunami disaster that swept away thousands of people and sparked a nuclear crisis, a tragedy that has left visible scars on the landscape and continues to wreak misery for many. Remembrance ceremonies were being held in towns and cities around the disaster zone and in Tokyo, where Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko are to lead tributes to those who died in Japan's worst peace-time disaster. The National Police Agency said a total of 15,891 people are confirmed to have died in the disaster, with another 2,584 still listed as missing. At the beach in Shichigahama, 28 police and coastguard officers offered a silent prayer Wednesday morning before they began their search for the bodies of two townspeople still missing.
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| University of Oklahoma expels two leaders of racist singing Posted: 10 Mar 2015 10:10 PM PDT  By Heide Brandes OKLAHOMA CITY (Reuters) - The University of Oklahoma has expelled two students for playing a leadership role in singing a racist song at a fraternity-linked event that was captured on video and viewed worldwide, the school's president said on Tuesday. The two students, who have not officially been identified, were connected to a Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity event. The video, posted on Sunday, prompted the university to shut down the fraternity's house on campus and force members to vacate it by midnight on Tuesday. "There is zero tolerance for this kind of threatening racist behavior at the University of Oklahoma," President David Boren said in a post on social media website Twitter.
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| Families come forward with apologies for roles in racist OU fraternity video Posted: 10 Mar 2015 08:16 PM PDT  One Dallas-area man and the family of another have reportedly come forward to apologize for their roles in a racist video that has caused a firestorm at the University of Oklahoma after going viral.
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| In hectic Hillary Clinton press conference, a penchant for privacy and control Posted: 10 Mar 2015 06:24 PM PDT  Her first press conference in nearly six months was at a hard-to-reach citadel — and on just a few hours' notice.
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| Madison police shooting forces liberal city to look at race gap Posted: 10 Mar 2015 04:06 PM PDT  By Brendan O'Brien MADISON, Wis. (Reuters) - The fatal police shooting of an unarmed biracial teen in Madison, Wisconsin, has cast a light on the divide between the liberal whites that dominate the university city and its black residents, who said this week they feel marginalized. Since the death on Friday evening of 19-year-old Tony Robinson, Madison has seen days of protests and a measured response by the city's police department. Robinson was shot after Officer Matt Kenny responded to calls about a man dodging cars in traffic who had allegedly battered another person, according to police officials. Madison, a city of 243,000, is perennially near the top of media rankings of the best places to live in the United States.
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| Jury in Boston bombing trial sees photos of writing in boat Posted: 10 Mar 2015 01:48 PM PDT  Jurors in the trial of Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev on Tuesday saw photographs of a blood-stained, hand-scrawled note speckled with bullet holes inside the boat he was captured in days after the deadly 2013 attack.
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