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• Four Connecticut police officers cleared in fatal 2013 shooting
• Oil slicks off California span 9 miles; cleanup underway
• New video surfaces showing Freddie Gray arrest in Baltimore
• Nebraska lawmakers vote to abolish death penalty
• Shopping area reopens after deadly Texas motorcycle gang fight
• Banks fined $2.5 billion, to plead guilty to market rigging
• Bin Laden bent on spectacular US attack until the end: files
• McDonald's, other fast-food workers, protest ahead of annual meeting
• 4-mile oil slick lines California coast after pipeline spill
• Oklahoma set to overturn local drilling controls as backlash brews
• Twin Peaks waitresses chronicle Texas biker bloodshed, uncertain futures
• Takata doubling U.S. recall for defective air bags to 34 million vehicles
• Los Angeles City Council votes for $15 minimum wage
• Pinterest removes (then reactivates) #GunFAIL boards
• Prostitute pleads guilty in Google executive's heroin death
• Los Angeles gives preliminary approval to $15 minimum wage

Four Connecticut police officers cleared in fatal 2013 shooting Posted: 20 May 2015 01:28 PM PDT By Richard Weizel BRIDGEPORT, Conn. (Reuters) - Connecticut prosecutors on Wednesday cleared four police officers in the 2013 shooting of a black suspect who died of wounds sustained while police tried to arrest him in a parking lot in Bridgeport, the state's largest city. The four officers, three of whom are white and one black, believed they needed to use deadly force to defend themselves when 23-year-old Carnell Williams pointed a gun at them while the driver of the car he was riding in attempted to crash through a circle of police officers. "I reviewed the case to the best of my ability and did not find race played a role in the shootings," said David Shepack, state's attorney for Connecticut's Litchfield district.

Oil slicks off California span 9 miles; cleanup underway Posted: 20 May 2015 12:54 PM PDT Slicks of oil that spilled into California coastal waters from an onshore pipeline spanned a total of 9 miles Wednesday, and a company official said the line was operating at full capacity when it broke, ...

New video surfaces showing Freddie Gray arrest in Baltimore Posted: 20 May 2015 10:09 AM PDT A new video has surfaced revealing a key part of the arrest of Freddie Gray, the Baltimore black man whose death from injuries he sustained while in police custody led to days of protests and a federal investigation. The video, shot by a bystander and posted on The Baltimore Sun's website on Wednesday, shows officers putting Gray in leg shackles and handcuffs before placing him back in a police van head first and on his stomach. Gray died on April 19 from spinal injuries suffered during his arrest a week earlier on April 12.

Nebraska lawmakers vote to abolish death penalty Posted: 20 May 2015 09:53 AM PDT LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Nebraska lawmakers gave final approval on Wednesday to a bill abolishing the death penalty with enough votes to override a promised veto from Republican Gov. Pete Ricketts.

Shopping area reopens after deadly Texas motorcycle gang fight Posted: 20 May 2015 07:56 AM PDT By Jon Herskovitz AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - The shopping center in the central Texas city of Waco shut after a weekend brawl between rival motorcycle gangs that left nine people dead will reopen on Wednesday, police said. Authorities still are investigating the main crime scene, a Twin Peaks restaurant in the center where five biker gangs used guns, knives, clubs and chains in a Sunday fight that spilled out into two parking lots. Waco police said in a statement that reopening the Central Texas Marketplace Shopping Center, which has about 50 stores and restaurants, is "great news for our local businesses who have been so patient with our investigation." Police have taken 170 people into custody and they are being held on bail of $1 million each on charges of involvement in organized crime relating to capital murder.

Banks fined $2.5 billion, to plead guilty to market rigging Posted: 20 May 2015 07:23 AM PDT Four big banks will pay $2.5 billion in fines and plead guilty to criminally manipulating the global currency markets going back to 2007. JPMorgan Chase, Citigroup, Barclays and The Royal Bank of Scotland ...

Bin Laden bent on spectacular US attack until the end: files Posted: 20 May 2015 06:50 AM PDT Hunkered down in his Pakistani compound, Osama bin Laden pleaded with his followers to stay focused on attacking the United States instead of being dragged into Muslim infighting. Documents declassified on Wednesday shed new light on the mindset of Al-Qaeda's founder, his debates over tactics, his anxiety over Western spying and his fixation with the group's media image. "The focus should be on killing and fighting the American people and their representatives," Bin Laden wrote in one of the newly revealed documents.

McDonald's, other fast-food workers, protest ahead of annual meeting Posted: 20 May 2015 05:46 AM PDT By Mary Wisniewski CHICAGO (Reuters) - Thousands of McDonald's workers seeking a minimum wage of $15 per hour and the right to unionize are expected to swarm the fast-food giant's headquarters for two days of protests that will coincide with the fast-food chain's annual meeting on Thursday. Protests by low-wage fast-food and retail workers have helped fuel a national debate about pay levels. Companies such as McDonald's Corp and Wal-Mart Stores Inc are raising starting pay and cities like Seattle and Chicago are boosting their respective minimum wages over time.

4-mile oil slick lines California coast after pipeline spill Posted: 20 May 2015 01:24 AM PDT GOLETA, Calif. (AP) — A broken onshore pipeline spewed oil down a storm drain and into the Pacific Ocean for several hours before it was shut off, creating a slick some 4 miles long across a scenic stretch of central California coastline, officials said.

Oklahoma set to overturn local drilling controls as backlash brews Posted: 19 May 2015 10:40 PM PDT By Heide Brandes and Yeganeh Torbati OKLAHOMA CITY/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Facing a backlash over the side effects of its oil and gas boom, Oklahoma is poised to overturn an 80-year-old statute that allows cities and towns to ban drilling operations within their borders. The legislation, now being finalised, would help insulate energy companies from local movements that have grown in response to the rapid expansion of oil and gas drilling and a dramatic spike in earthquakes across the central state. Oklahoma now sees 600 times more tremors than it did before 2008, a surge seismologists say is linked to vast amounts of wastewater injected into the ground as a result of drilling for oil and from hydraulic fracturing - a process to extract natural gas that is also known as fracking.

Twin Peaks waitresses chronicle Texas biker bloodshed, uncertain futures Posted: 19 May 2015 08:31 PM PDT

Takata doubling U.S. recall for defective air bags to 34 million vehicles Posted: 19 May 2015 07:58 PM PDT By David Morgan and Ben Klayman WASHINGTON/DETROIT (Reuters) - Japanese air bag manufacturer Takata Corp is doubling a recall of potentially deadly air bags to nearly 34 million vehicles, creating the largest automotive recall in American history, U.S. safety regulators said on Tuesday. The recall involves passenger and driver-side air bag inflators in vehicles made by 11 automakers, the U.S. Department of Transportation, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and Takata said. Regulators on Tuesday linked six deaths worldwide to defective Takata air bags which exploded with too much force and sent shrapnel into the vehicles.

Los Angeles City Council votes for $15 minimum wage Posted: 19 May 2015 06:04 PM PDT The move is closely watched as Americans' wages have stagnated.

Pinterest removes (then reactivates) #GunFAIL boards Posted: 19 May 2015 03:19 PM PDT David Waldman uses his #GunFAIL boards to keep track of all the children who are accidentally shot and killed in the United States.

Prostitute pleads guilty in Google executive's heroin death Posted: 19 May 2015 02:46 PM PDT (Reuters) - A prostitute charged with killing a Google executive by injecting him with heroin on his yacht off the California coast pleaded guilty on Tuesday to involuntary manslaughter, court officials said. Alix Catherine Tichelman, 27, was sentenced to six years in prison by a Santa Cruz Superior Court judge after she accepted a plea deal in which a manslaughter charge was reduced to involuntary manslaughter, a court official said. Prosecutors say Tichelman, a high-priced call girl, injected Forrest Hayes, 51, with heroin during a tryst aboard his yacht off Santa Cruz in November 2013.

Los Angeles gives preliminary approval to $15 minimum wage Posted: 19 May 2015 02:25 PM PDT By Alex Dobuzinskis LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The Los Angeles City Council gave preliminary approval on Tuesday to raise the hourly minimum wage to $15 an hour by 2020 for companies with more than 25 employees, while giving smaller businesses an extra year to meet that benchmark. "We are embarking upon, I think, the most progressive minimum wage policy anywhere in the country," said City Councilman Curren Price Jr. The federal minimum wage has remained at $7.25 since 2009. Opponents of minimum wage hikes say they place an undue burden on businesses and force some employers to lay off workers and pass on higher labor costs to consumers.

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