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• Guilty verdict in Boston bombing trial
• Surge in voter turnout gives blacks new voice in Ferguson, Missouri
• Islamic State group releases over 200 captive Iraqi Yazidis
• Live updates: Guilty verdict in Boston Marathon bombing trial
• Boston bombing jury reaches verdict in Tsarnaev trial
• Real estate scion Robert Durst indicted on weapons charges in New Orleans
• NBA player Chris Copeland, wife stabbed outside New York City club -reports
• New York woman sentenced to 20 years to life for killing son with salt
• American, Afghan killed in firefight between Afghan and NATO soldiers
• Emanuel's re-election present: Chicago’s fiscal nightmare is just beginning
• The Apple Watch: Half computer, half jewelry, mostly magical
• Afghan soldier shoots, wounds 3 US troops in insider attack
• Ferguson, Missouri elects two black city councillors
• Mommy blogger faces life in prison for NY son's salt-poisoning murder
• Texas judge refuses to lift block on Obama immigration plan
• White South Carolina policeman charged with murdering black man
• Power line break puts out the lights in Washington, D.C
• Geno Auriemma ties John Wooden with 10 titles as UConn rolls
• Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel wins 2nd term in runoff victory
• White South Carolina policeman charged with murdering black man
• White SC police officer charged with murder in shooting of black man
• Jurors end 1st day of deliberations in marathon bombing case
• The Rand Paul campaign website: A review

Guilty verdict in Boston bombing trial Posted: 08 Apr 2015 12:53 PM PDT A jury finds Dzhokhar Tsarnaev guilty on all 30 counts for his role in the 2013 attacks.

Surge in voter turnout gives blacks new voice in Ferguson, Missouri Posted: 08 Apr 2015 12:38 PM PDT A surge in voter turnout helped elect two new black city council members in Ferguson, a Missouri city found by the U.S. Justice Department to be rife with racial abuses in its police and court systems. After months of street protests, turnout in Tuesday's vote was 30 percent, or more than double recent municipal elections in the St. Louis suburb, which is two-thirds black but has had only two African-American council members in its 120 year history. Mayor James Knowles on Wednesday called the election a "milestone" for the city. The six-member city council will be split with three African-American and three white members.

Islamic State group releases over 200 captive Iraqi Yazidis Posted: 08 Apr 2015 12:22 PM PDT BAGHDAD (AP) — The Islamic State group released more than 200 Yazidis on Wednesday after holding them for eight months, the latest mass release of captives by the extremists targeted by U.S.-led airstrikes and an Iraqi ground offensive.

Live updates: Guilty verdict in Boston Marathon bombing trial Posted: 08 Apr 2015 11:36 AM PDT A jury will now decide whether Dzhokhar Tsarnaev should be sentenced to death.

Boston bombing jury reaches verdict in Tsarnaev trial Posted: 08 Apr 2015 10:48 AM PDT By Scott Malone and Elizabeth Barber BOSTON (Reuters) - The jury hearing the Boston Marathon bombing trial on Wednesday reached a verdict on the guilt of defendant Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, charged with killing three people and injuring 264 in the 2013 attack, according to federal prosecutors. The verdict was not immediately disclosed but was expected to be read out in U.S. District Court in Boston later on Wednesday.

Real estate scion Robert Durst indicted on weapons charges in New Orleans Posted: 08 Apr 2015 09:26 AM PDT By Jonathan Kaminsky NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - Robert Durst, the real estate scion awaiting extradition to California to face a murder charge, was indicted on weapons charges in New Orleans on Wednesday, the Orleans Parish District Attorney's Office said. Durst, recently featured in the HBO documentary "The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst," has been charged with the 2000 murder of a longtime friend in Los Angeles County and has sought a swift extradition to face that charge. Durst, 71, was indicted on two Louisiana gun charges for illegally possessing a firearm as a felon and for carrying a weapon with a controlled substance, according to Assistant District Attorney Christopher Bowman, a spokesman for Orleans Parish District.

NBA player Chris Copeland, wife stabbed outside New York City club -reports Posted: 08 Apr 2015 08:21 AM PDT (Reuters) - NBA player Chris Copeland and his wife were stabbed outside a New York City nightclub early Wednesday and hospitalized with non-life-threatening injuries, ABC reported. The Indiana Pacers forward was stabbed in the abdomen. His wife was slashed in the arm and leg, and a 53-year-old woman was stabbed in the abdomen, according to media reports. A suspect, Shezoy Bleary, 22, was in custody.

New York woman sentenced to 20 years to life for killing son with salt Posted: 08 Apr 2015 07:49 AM PDT A suburban New York woman who wrote a blog about motherhood was sentenced to 20 years to life in prison on Wednesday for murdering her son through salt poisoning so she could use his illness to gain social media attention. Lacey Spears, 27, who chronicled her son Garnett's illnesses on a personal blog called "Garnett's Journey" and other social media, was convicted by a jury in White Plains, New York, last month of second-degree murder in his 2014 death at Westchester Medical Center in Vahalla, New York.

American, Afghan killed in firefight between Afghan and NATO soldiers Posted: 08 Apr 2015 06:27 AM PDT By Rafiq Sherzad JALALABAD, Afghanistan (Reuters) - An American soldier and an Afghan soldier were killed when a firefight broke out between Afghan and NATO coalition forces at a compound where a senior U.S. diplomat met a provincial governor in eastern Afghanistan, police and U.S. sources said. A handful of others from both sides were wounded in the shooting, which erupted shortly after the diplomat left the compound aboard a helicopter, according to U.S. and Afghan sources. The NATO soldiers involved in the incident were American, according to Afghan police, and had been leaving the venue to return to Camp Gamberi in east Afghanistan where they were stationed.

Emanuel's re-election present: Chicago’s fiscal nightmare is just beginning Posted: 08 Apr 2015 06:11 AM PDT By Karen Pierog and Megan Davies CHICAGO/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Rahm Emanuel may have been elected to a second term as Chicago's mayor on Tuesday but now he faces a stark choice: inflict pain on the city's population in the form of unpopular measures such as higher taxes or kick its problems further down the road and risk a fiscal crisis that could even lead to bankruptcy later. While voters appear to have seen President Barack Obama's former chief of staff as more able than labor union-backed challenger Jesus "Chuy" Garcia to deal with Chicago's massive public pension liabilities, neither candidate squarely addressed what could be a fiscal nightmare for the city. The failure over many years to address the hole the city has dug for itself will finally catch up with Chicago if radical action isn't taken soon to resolve the budget and pension problems, warn bankers, investors and fiscal policy experts. "The day there's no more dollars in the kitty, the day that the city is not going to be able to pay the next set of payrolls, that's the day everyone will all of a sudden understand: 'Wow, we really have to address this because there is no longer an option,'" said David Tawil, president of hedge fund Maglan Capital which invests in distressed situations but does not own Chicago debt.

The Apple Watch: Half computer, half jewelry, mostly magical Posted: 08 Apr 2015 05:54 AM PDT We, the people, have made it clear that we don't want smartwatches. They, the watches, have been available for over a year, courtesy of titans like Google, Samsung, and LG. But so far, the only wrists bearing them belong to former members of high-school A/V clubs.

Afghan soldier shoots, wounds 3 US troops in insider attack Posted: 08 Apr 2015 05:38 AM PDT The soldier wounded three before he was shot dead by American troops, an official and an eyewitness said.

Ferguson, Missouri elects two black city councillors Posted: 08 Apr 2015 04:50 AM PDT Residents elected a black man and a black woman to Ferguson's city council on Tuesday in the Missouri city's first municipal election since a white police officer fatally shot an unarmed black teen, triggering months of sometimes violent protests. Like the police force in Ferguson, two-thirds of whose residents are black, the city's leadership has long been dominated by whites. Ferguson has about 21,000 residents but has had only two black councillors since its incorporation in 1894, including incumbent Dwayne James. Eight candidates, including four African-Americans, were up for three seats in an election seen as critical to addressing the racially discriminatory practices that threw Ferguson into the spotlight when Michael Brown, 18, was shot dead in August.

Mommy blogger faces life in prison for NY son's salt-poisoning murder Posted: 08 Apr 2015 04:17 AM PDT By Barbara Goldberg NEW YORK (Reuters) - A suburban New York woman convicted of poisoning her 5-year-old son with salt so that she could bask in social media attention could be sentenced to life in prison when she appears at a state court on Wednesday. Lacey Spears, 27, who chronicled her son Garnett's illnesses on a personal blog called "Garnett's Journey" and other social media, was convicted by a jury in White Plains, New York, last month of second-degree murder in his 2014 death at Westchester Medical Center. Prosecutors said Spears loaded the hospitalized boy's feeding tube with a lethal amount of salt and kept on blogging. Spears' lawyer Stephen Riebling said she was innocent, blamed the hospital for negligence, and said he plans to appeal the verdict.

Texas judge refuses to lift block on Obama immigration plan Posted: 08 Apr 2015 02:10 AM PDT (Reuters) - A federal judge in Texas has refused to lift a temporary block on a White House immigration plan that would have shielded millions of illegal immigrants from deportation, court documents show. U.S. District Judge Andrew Hanen in Brownsville, a city along the border with Mexico, rejected a U.S. Justice Department request to remove a ban on the plan he issued in February. Twenty-six U.S. states filed a lawsuit alleging Obama had exceeded his powers with executive orders that would let up to 4.7 million illegal immigrants stay in the country without threat of deportation. Obama's orders bypassed Congress, which has not been able to agree on immigration reform.

White South Carolina policeman charged with murdering black man Posted: 08 Apr 2015 12:03 AM PDT By Harriet McLeod CHARLESTON, S.C. (Reuters) - A white South Carolina police officer was arrested and charged with murder on Tuesday after a video showed him shooting eight times at the back of a 50-year-old black man who was running away after a traffic stop and died at the scene. The FBI and the U.S. Justice Department launched a separate investigation into the fatal shooting, which is the latest flashpoint in a series of incidents that have raised questions about policing and race relations across the country. Civil rights leaders called for calm, while many on social media said the official response would have been very different had the incident not been filmed by a member of the public who then handed the video to the victim's family. The shooting occurred on Saturday morning after officer Michael Slager, 33, stopped Walter Scott for a broken brake light, police said.

Power line break puts out the lights in Washington, D.C Posted: 07 Apr 2015 09:11 PM PDT By Lisa Lambert and Ian Simpson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A power line broke loose at an electrical substation near Washington on Tuesday, briefly dimming the White House, emptying museums and cutting electricity to government buildings and the U.S. Capitol for hours. The Justice Department and State Department were among thousands of customers whose power was cut in the early afternoon, along with the University of Maryland and some World Bank offices.

Geno Auriemma ties John Wooden with 10 titles as UConn rolls Posted: 07 Apr 2015 08:39 PM PDT The Huskies delivered a three-peat for the second time under Auriemma.

Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel wins 2nd term in runoff victory Posted: 07 Apr 2015 07:04 PM PDT The expensive campaign hinged on serious financial challenges facing the nation's third-largest city.

White South Carolina policeman charged with murdering black man Posted: 07 Apr 2015 06:18 PM PDT By Harriet McLeod CHARLESTON, S.C. (Reuters) - A white South Carolina police officer was charged with murder on Tuesday after a video showed him shooting eight times at the back of a 50-year-old black man who was running away. North Charleston Mayor Keith Summey said state investigators decided to charge officer Michael Slager, 33, with the murder of Walter Scott after they viewed the video of the incident, which followed a traffic stop on Saturday morning. The FBI and U.S. Justice Department have begun a separate investigation. A video of the encounter published by the New York Times shows a brief scuffle between Slager and Scott before the latter begins running away.

White SC police officer charged with murder in shooting of black man Posted: 07 Apr 2015 04:13 PM PDT The man appeared to be fleeing from the officer, local authorities say.

Jurors end 1st day of deliberations in marathon bombing case Posted: 07 Apr 2015 03:08 PM PDT BOSTON (AP) — Jurors in the trial of admitted Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev deliberated for a little more than seven hours Tuesday before ending their first day of deliberations without reaching a verdict.

The Rand Paul campaign website: A review Posted: 07 Apr 2015 02:36 PM PDT Rand Paul fashions himself a digitally savvy, cowboy-boot-wearin' dude, which is why it's crucial that his website, unlike another candidate's, is not made from a WordPress design template. Here he succeeds very well.

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