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• Reputed New York mobster, 80, found not guilty for 1978 'Goodfellas' heist
• Key senator wants a ‘more responsive’ veterans administration. Just don’t ask them for pot
• Florida officer fired after fatal shooting of black musician
• U.S. appeals court rejects challenge to California death penalty
• Cleveland clergy join Rice family request for prosecutor to step down
• Drone strikes giant Ferris wheel on Seattle's waterfront
• Clinton proposes $30 billion plan to help coal-producing areas
• Lasers hit aircraft in New York, Dallas; one suspect arrested
• Suspect held in fatal shooting near New York's Penn Station
• Suspect in murder of N.Y.C. officer due in court for drug sentencing
• Missouri man due in court over threat to shoot black people
• U.S. postal workers union endorses Bernie Sanders for president in 2016
• Students across U.S. to march over debt, free public college
• Is Ben Carson an impostor?
• Kurds launch offensive to retake IS-held Iraqi town Sinjar
• Gunman near San Francisco hospital killed after firing several shots
• Missouri police arrest men after threats to hurt blacks
• Suspect in shooting of Texas judge held on separate charge
• Native Americans oppose stripping protection from Yellowstone grizzlies
• Veteran suicide: The stories behind the statistics

Reputed New York mobster, 80, found not guilty for 1978 'Goodfellas' heist Posted: 12 Nov 2015 01:07 PM PST Vincent Asaro, whose arrest last year had supposedly closed one of the country's most infamous unsolved crimes more than three decades later, was cleared of murder, extortion and other crimes by a jury in Brooklyn federal court. The verdict is a rebuke to federal prosecutors in what may be one of the last major Mafia trials to stem from organized crime's heyday in New York decades ago. Prosecutors had said Asaro waited in a decoy car with another gangster, Jimmy Burke, about a mile from John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York, as a group of masked men robbed a Lufthansa Airlines cargo building of $6 million in cash and jewels.

Key senator wants a ‘more responsive’ veterans administration. Just don’t ask them for pot Posted: 12 Nov 2015 12:03 PM PST

Florida officer fired after fatal shooting of black musician Posted: 12 Nov 2015 11:16 AM PST MIAMI (Reuters) - The Florida police officer who shot and killed a black amateur musician waiting for help alongside a highway after his car broke down last month has been fired, a Palm Beach Gardens spokeswoman said on Thursday.

U.S. appeals court rejects challenge to California death penalty Posted: 12 Nov 2015 10:30 AM PST A U.S. appeals court on Thursday rejected a constitutional challenge to the death penalty in California, overturning a lower court ruling that had found the system too arbitrary. A California prisoner had argued that long delays in the judicial process surrounding the death penalty in California made the death penalty arbitrary and unconstitutional.

Cleveland clergy join Rice family request for prosecutor to step down Posted: 12 Nov 2015 09:58 AM PST "The public trust in (Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Tim McGinty's) representation of the public interest has been significantly compromised," said Rev. Dr. Jawanza Colvin of Olivet Institutional Baptist Church in Cleveland. Added Rabbi Robert Nosanchuk of Anshe Chesed Fairmount Temple in Cleveland suburb of Beachwood: "A mother is grieving.

Drone strikes giant Ferris wheel on Seattle's waterfront Posted: 12 Nov 2015 09:43 AM PST A drone crashed into a giant Ferris wheel on Seattle's waterfront, but there were no reports of injuries or major damage, police said on Thursday. The drone struck the 175-foot-tall Seattle Great Wheel about 4:45 p.m. on Wednesday, Seattle police detective Mark Jamieson said. It was unclear who was operating the craft, which hit a spoke on the wheel and then tumbled to the ground, Jamieson said.

Clinton proposes $30 billion plan to help coal-producing areas Posted: 12 Nov 2015 08:24 AM PST By Amanda Becker WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton on Thursday proposed a $30 billion plan to help displaced workers in coal-producing areas find new jobs and continue receiving health benefits as the country shifts to using renewable energy and more natural gas. Clinton's suite of proposals, which also includes expanding broadband Internet access and establishing a fund that would award competitive grants to small businesses, begins to detail her pledge to protect and build on President Barack Obama's Clean Power Plan, which Republicans have criticized as a "war on coal" that will devastate producing regions. Clinton, facing pressure from environmental activists and U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, her chief rival for the Democratic nomination, has tacked to the left on environmental issues, saying in September she did not support TransCanada's proposed Keystone XL pipeline which would link existing networks to let oil flow from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico.

Lasers hit aircraft in New York, Dallas; one suspect arrested Posted: 12 Nov 2015 07:39 AM PST In New York, a beam hit a Channel 4 news helicopter flying near the Barclays Center arena in Brooklyn at 5:15 p.m. (2215 GMT) on Wednesday. The pilot alerted LaGuardia Airport's air traffic control tower staff, which notified a New York Police Department aviation unit. Police in the air worked with their colleagues on the ground to track the suspect to the rear of a building near downtown Brooklyn, where he was taken into custody, the NYPD said.

Suspect held in fatal shooting near New York's Penn Station Posted: 12 Nov 2015 07:24 AM PST A man who sought a predawn psychiatric evaluation at a Bronx hospital was taken into custody by police on Thursday in connection with a fatal shooting this week near New York's Penn Station transportation hub, authorities said. Vincent Arcona, 27, who had been identified as a person of interest in Monday's shooting that left one man dead and two others wounded, was being held by police, a New York Police Department spokeswoman said. The incident began with an argument in a McDonald's restaurant near Penn Station, and led to the subway station, police said.

Suspect in murder of N.Y.C. officer due in court for drug sentencing Posted: 12 Nov 2015 04:33 AM PST A man accused of shooting dead a New York City police officer while in a court-approved treatment plan for drug offenders is due to face a judge on Thursday for violating the terms of the program. Tyrone Howard, 31, is scheduled to appear in the same Manhattan courtroom where he was allowed to plead guilty in May to selling crack cocaine in exchange for treatment instead of jail time. The decision by two state judges to process Howard's case through a "drug court" despite a long history of narcotics convictions drew strong criticism from city officials after he was accused of murdering Officer Randolph Holder in New York's East Harlem neighborhood on Oct. 20.

Missouri man due in court over threat to shoot black people Posted: 12 Nov 2015 04:17 AM PST A 19-year-old white Missouri man is scheduled to appear in court on Thursday on the charge of making threats on social media to shoot black people at the University of Missouri's main Columbia campus. Hunter M. Park, from the St. Louis suburb of Lake St. Louis, Missouri, was arrested on Wednesday at the Missouri University of Science and Technology (S&T) in Rolla, where he is a sophomore studying computer science. S&T is part of the University of Missouri System and Rolla is about 95 miles (153 km) south of Columbia.

U.S. postal workers union endorses Bernie Sanders for president in 2016 Posted: 12 Nov 2015 04:02 AM PST (Reuters) - The U.S. postal workers union's executive board said on Thursday it had voted to endorse Bernie Sanders for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2016, the union said in a statement. The endorsement was a setback for Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton, who has been vying with Sanders, her chief rival, for the support of organized labor. It's time for a political revolution," said Mark Dimondstein, president of the postal workers union.

Students across U.S. to march over debt, free public college Posted: 12 Nov 2015 03:15 AM PST Students were set to walk out of classrooms across the United States on Thursday to protest ballooning student loan debt for higher education and rally for tuition-free public colleges and a minimum wage hike for campus workers. The demonstrations are planned just two days after thousands of fast-food workers took to the streets in a nationwide day of action pushing for a $15-an-hour minimum wage and union rights for the industry. Events for Thursday's protests, dubbed the Million Student March, have been planned at colleges and universities from Los Angeles to New York.

Is Ben Carson an impostor? Posted: 12 Nov 2015 02:46 AM PST Should we really question Carson's integrity, given some of the doubts that now surround his personal story?

Kurds launch offensive to retake IS-held Iraqi town Sinjar Posted: 12 Nov 2015 12:57 AM PST SINJAR, Iraq (AP) — Kurdish Iraqi fighters, backed by the U.S.-led air campaign, launched an assault Thursday aiming to retake the strategic town of Sinjar, which the Islamic State group overran last year in an onslaught that caused the flight of tens of thousands of Yazidis and first prompted the U.S. to launch airstrikes against the militants.

Gunman near San Francisco hospital killed after firing several shots Posted: 11 Nov 2015 11:25 PM PST A gunman was shot and killed on Wednesday after firing several shots from a construction site next to a San Francisco hospital, police said. The incident unfolded around 4 p.m. local time near the St. Luke's campus of the California Pacific Medical Center in the city's Mission District, San Francisco Police spokesman Albie Esparza said. Esparza said it was not immediately clear who killed the gunman, suggesting that he may have died from a self-inflicted bullet wound.

Missouri police arrest men after threats to hurt blacks Posted: 11 Nov 2015 06:16 PM PST By Anthony Romano and Madi Alexander COLUMBIA, Mo. (Reuters) - Two white men were arrested on Wednesday on suspicion of making threats on social media against black people, two days after the University of Missouri's president and chancellor stepped down amid protests over their handling of reports of racial abuse. Tension was still high on the main Columbia campus, where there was a greater-than-usual police presence. Several students leaving the area said they felt unsafe.

Suspect in shooting of Texas judge held on separate charge Posted: 11 Nov 2015 03:39 PM PST A man seen by police as a person of interest in the shooting of a Texas judge in Austin last week was ordered on Wednesday by a judge in Houston to be held without bond on a separate murder charge in that city. Chimene Onyeri, 28, charged with felony murder in the shooting death of Jacobi Demon Alexander last May, was booked into jail after the appearance in Houston. Austin police have not yet announced a motive in the shooting of District Judge Julie Kocurek, 51, in front of her Austin home last Friday, or any link to Onyeri.

Native Americans oppose stripping protection from Yellowstone grizzlies Posted: 11 Nov 2015 02:52 PM PST By Laura Zuckerman SALMON, Idaho (Reuters) - Native American tribes on Wednesday called for the U.S. government to halt plans to strip grizzly bears in and around Yellowstone of Endangered Species Act protection because it would open the way for trophy hunting in Idaho and two other states bordering the national park. Government bear managers have said the 700-plus grizzlies in the Yellowstone area have exceeded their recovery goal of 500 bears and no longer need federal protection. Grizzlies in the Lower 48 states were formally listed as threatened under the law in 1975 after being hunted, trapped and poisoned to the edge of extinction.

Veteran suicide: The stories behind the statistics Posted: 11 Nov 2015 02:04 PM PST "Our friends are dying all around us, and it feels like nobody's paying attention."

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