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• Another pal of Boston Marathon bomber gets 3 years in prison
• Data hacked from federal government dates back to 1985: U.S. official
• Ex-security guard pleads guilty to aiding Kentucky bourbon theft
• Texas man sentenced to prison for trying to join Islamic State
• Sinkhole swallows police vehicle in Colorado
• Tariq Aziz, top aide to Saddam Hussein, dies in hospital
• U.S. court rejects American Samoans' bid for full citizenship rights
• Prosecutor: Germanwings pilot contacted dozens of doctors
• Maine city's police turn to Somali immigrants as diversity grows
• U.S. Air Force bomber contract due in early August: sources
• Family alleges brother was victim of Hastert abuse: ABC News
• Two friends of Boston bomber to be sentenced for hampering probe
• Planned Parenthood sues to block Arizona abortion law
• Massive data breach could affect every federal agency
• On the Wisconsin border, little enthusiasm for Walker's tax cuts
• California drought not helping water funds, but stocks prosper
• China rescuers right ship to speed up search for missing
• Massive cyber attack hits U.S. federal workers; probe focuses on China
• U.S. officials: Data on 4 million government workers hacked
• U.S.: Data on 4 million government workers hacked
• U.S. government says four million people affected by cyber breach

Another pal of Boston Marathon bomber gets 3 years in prison Posted: 05 Jun 2015 12:49 PM PDT BOSTON (AP) — Another college friend of Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev (joh-HAHR' tsahr-NEYE'-ehv) has been sentenced to three years in prison for lying to the FBI about being in Tsarnaev's dorm room days after the 2013 attacks.

Data hacked from federal government dates back to 1985: U.S. official Posted: 05 Jun 2015 12:31 PM PDT By Andrea Shalal and Matt Spetalnick WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Data stolen from U.S. government computers by suspected Chinese hackers included security clearance information and background checks dating back three decades, U.S. officials said on Friday, underlining the scope of one of the largest known cyber attacks on federal networks. The breach of computer systems of the Office of Personnel Management was disclosed on Thursday by the Obama administration, which said records of up to 4 million current and former federal employees may have been compromised. U.S. government sources said the hackers were believed to have been based in China but it was not yet known if the massive hacking was state-sponsored.

Ex-security guard pleads guilty to aiding Kentucky bourbon theft Posted: 05 Jun 2015 11:41 AM PDT By Steve Bittenbender LOUISVILLE, Ky. (Reuters) - A former security guard at a Kentucky distillery pleaded guilty on Friday to a misdemeanor charge under a deal with prosecutors and has agreed to testify against others accused in the theft of rare bourbons and other expensive whiskeys, prosecutors said. Leslie Wright, 34, was indicted in May on a felony charge of complicity to receiving stolen property valued at more than $10,000, accused of taking $800 to look the other way while thieves stole 11 stainless steel barrels of spirits from Buffalo Trace Distillery in Frankfort. Prosecutors say a group of people who knew each other through softball formed a theft ring that had been stealing whiskey for at least seven years, making off with liquor from the Buffalo Trace and Wild Turkey distilleries valued at more than $100,000.

Texas man sentenced to prison for trying to join Islamic State Posted: 05 Jun 2015 10:34 AM PDT An Austin, Texas man was sentenced on Friday to almost seven years in prison for attempting to travel to Syria to join the Islamic State militant group. Michael Wolfe, 24, was sentenced to 82 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Sam Sparks in Austin, the U.S. Justice Department said in a statement.

Sinkhole swallows police vehicle in Colorado Posted: 05 Jun 2015 10:16 AM PDT (Reuters) - A sinkhole on a street just south of Denver swallowed a police SUV on Friday, sending it 10 feet down into the hole and forcing the sergeant inside to climb onto the roof to clamber out of the pit, the local police chief said. The sinkhole in a commercial section of Sheridan, Colorado, near a shopping mall appears to have formed after a heavy amount of rainwater leaked from an underground pipeline, said Sheridan Police Chief Mark Campbell.

Tariq Aziz, top aide to Saddam Hussein, dies in hospital Posted: 05 Jun 2015 08:54 AM PDT The debonair Iraqi diplomat who made his name by staunchly defending Saddam Hussein to the world during three wars and was later sentenced to death as part of the regime that killed hundreds of thousands of its own people, has died in a hospital in southern Iraq, officials said. He was 79.

U.S. court rejects American Samoans' bid for full citizenship rights Posted: 05 Jun 2015 08:22 AM PDT By Lawrence Hurley WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. appeals court on Friday ruled against a group of American Samoans who had argued that those born in the U.S. territory in the South Pacific should be eligible for U.S. citizenship at birth. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, noting that both the U.S. government and the government in American Samoa opposed the campaign, rejected the legal challenge made by named plaintiff Leneuoti Fiafia Tuaua and seven others. Writing on behalf of a three-judge panel, Judge Janice Rogers Brown said the court was sympathetic to the claim, but reluctant to "impose citizenship by judicial fiat - where doing so requires us to override the democratic prerogatives of the American Samoan people themselves." The court held that the so-called citizenship clause of the 14th Amendment does not extend to unincorporated U.S. territories.

Prosecutor: Germanwings pilot contacted dozens of doctors Posted: 05 Jun 2015 07:20 AM PDT MARSEILLE, France (AP) — A state prosecutor says a co-pilot with a history of depression who crashed a Germanwings airliner into the French Alps had reached out to dozens of doctors ahead of the disaster. The revelation suggests Andreas Lubitz was seeking advice about an undisclosed ailment.

Maine city's police turn to Somali immigrants as diversity grows Posted: 05 Jun 2015 07:03 AM PDT By Scott Malone LEWISTON, Maine (Reuters) - From the Mogadishu market to the women in brightly colored veils walking their children to school, Maine's second-largest city shows the signs of the growing Somali-American community that is making its mark on the former New England mill town. One place in Lewiston where that growing diversity is not evident is the city's 82-member police force, but Chief Michael Bussiere aims to change that amid an intense national debate over race and policing. At first glance, Lewiston, a city of 36,000 people that spent decades struggling through job losses from mill closings and a shrinking population, may seem an unlikely place for such a rebirth given that Maine is among the whitest U.S. states.

U.S. Air Force bomber contract due in early August: sources Posted: 05 Jun 2015 06:32 AM PDT By Andrea Shalal WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Air Force is expected to unveil in early August whether Northrop Grumman Corp, maker of the B-2 bomber, or a Boeing Co-Lockheed Martin Corp team will build a new U.S. long-range bomber, sources familiar with the competition said. The top-secret "source selection" process, which could be worth $50 billion to $80 billion to the winning bidder, is nearly complete, with the decision still to be reviewed by top U.S. government lawyers and other officials, said the sources, who were not authorized to speak publicly. The two teams are competing to build 80 to 100 new bombers for the Air Force at cost of no more than $550 million per aircraft.

Family alleges brother was victim of Hastert abuse: ABC News Posted: 05 Jun 2015 06:01 AM PDT The sister of a student at the high school where Dennis Hastert was a wrestling coach accused the former U.S. House of Representatives speaker of sexually abusing her brother, according to an interview with ABC News that aired on Friday. In the first public identification of an alleged abuse victim, Jolene Reinboldt said she found out about the abuse eight years after her brother, Steve, graduated. Steve Reinboldt died of AIDS in 1995, ABC said.

Two friends of Boston bomber to be sentenced for hampering probe Posted: 05 Jun 2015 04:24 AM PDT By Scott Malone BOSTON (Reuters) - Two friends of convicted Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev will learn on Friday how long they will spend in prison for having removed a backpack containing fireworks from the suspect's room during a massive manhunt. Kazakh exchange student Azamat Tazhayakov and Robel Phillipos, of Cambridge, Massachusetts, joined a third friend and fellow student in going to Tsarnaev's dorm room three days after the April 2013 bombing, after the FBI released images of Tsarnaev and his older brother, Tamerlan, identifying them as suspects.

Planned Parenthood sues to block Arizona abortion law Posted: 05 Jun 2015 03:00 AM PDT (Reuters) - Arizona abortion providers have sued to block part of a state law that requires doctors to tell women that drug-induced abortions can be reversed, Planned Parenthood has said. A law due to take effect on July 3 requires doctors to tell patients that the effects of abortion pills may be undone with high doses of a hormone. Supporters said abortion reversal was possible if acted upon quickly, but provided no peer-reviewed studies to support this.

Massive data breach could affect every federal agency Posted: 05 Jun 2015 02:26 AM PDT China-based hackers are suspected of breaking into U.S. government computer networks.

On the Wisconsin border, little enthusiasm for Walker's tax cuts Posted: 04 Jun 2015 11:13 PM PDT By Andy Sullivan SUPERIOR, Wisconsin (Reuters) - Shortly after taking office in 2011, Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker traveled to this hardscrabble port city to unveil a new sign that announced his plan to slash taxes and lure companies from nearby Minnesota. In the years since, Walker has cut state taxes by $2 billion as his state has climbed out of recession. Unemployment in Superior now stands at 4.6 percent, down nearly by half since Walker took office.

California drought not helping water funds, but stocks prosper Posted: 04 Jun 2015 10:23 PM PDT By David Randall NEW YORK (Reuters) - The record California drought, now in its fourth year, is prompting fund managers to dive into the shares of water technology companies. Fund managers from T. Rowe Price, Janus, and Mairs & Power are among those that have increased their stakes in firms such as Ecolab Inc, Roper Technologies Inc and Flowserve Corp that make smart meters, efficient heaters, and software that helps restaurants, hotels and homeowners cut back on their water usage. Shares of Roper Technologies Inc, which makes leak testing and flow measurement equipment, are up nearly 13 percent for the year.

China rescuers right ship to speed up search for missing Posted: 04 Jun 2015 07:03 PM PDT JIANLI, China (AP) — Disaster teams that have recovered 77 bodies from a capsized cruise ship in the Yangtze River finished righting the previously overturned vessel on Friday to quicken the search for more than 360 other victims still missing.

Massive cyber attack hits U.S. federal workers; probe focuses on China Posted: 04 Jun 2015 06:29 PM PDT By Matt Spetalnick and David Brunnstrom WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Hackers broke into U.S. government computers, possibly compromising the personal data of 4 million current and former federal employees, and investigators were probing whether the culprits were based in China, U.S. officials said on Thursday. In the latest in a string of intrusions into U.S. agencies' high-tech systems, the Office of Personnel Management suffered what appeared to be one of the largest breaches of information ever on government workers. A U.S. law enforcement source told Reuters a "foreign entity or government" was believed to be behind the cyber attack.

U.S. officials: Data on 4 million government workers hacked Posted: 04 Jun 2015 04:28 PM PDT China-based hackers are suspected of breaking into the computer networks of the U.S. government personnel office and stealing identifying information of at least 4 million federal workers, American officials ...

U.S.: Data on 4 million government workers hacked Posted: 04 Jun 2015 04:12 PM PDT Hackers broke into the U.S. government personnel office and stole identifying information of at least 4 million federal workers.

U.S. government says four million people affected by cyber breach Posted: 04 Jun 2015 02:48 PM PDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. government agency that collects personnel information for federal employees said on Thursday a cybersecurity breach had compromised the data of 4 million people. The Office of Personnel Management said the cybersecurity breach affected data for current and former federal employees. U.S. officials suspect the cyber attack originated in China, according to media reports. (Reporting by Doina Chiacu; Editing by Sandra Maler)

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