Yahoo! News - Latest News & Headlines

---

• Texas county says woman killed herself when no one bailed her out
• Utah judge amends order taking foster baby from lesbian couple: reports
• Supreme Court to decide Virginia redistricting case
• Supreme Court to decide major abortion case for first time since 2007
• 'NCIS' actress Pauley Perrette assaulted in Hollywood
• Trump vs Carson takes center stage at Orlando Republican summit
• Pennsylvania court reinstates Sandusky's $4,900 monthly pension
• Fantasy sports company DraftKings sues to stop NY shutdown
• Person arrested for making threats against Michigan Tech black students
• Carson's comeback to Trump's insults: 'Pray for him'
• Lockdown at Marist College in New York after online threat
• Higher spend on essentials, online bargains hit U.S. department stores
• Special Report: Trump's art of the deal - Dispute your bills
• El Nino sends rare tropical visitors to California waters
• Trump questions Carson's 'pathological temper', faith
• U.S. forces target 'Jihadi John' in airstrike
• Pennsylvania college cancels play after author objects to white actors
• Pentagon chief fires military assistant, cites misconduct allegations
• Pentagon chief fires military assistant, cites misconduct allegations
• Secret Service officer arrested in child sexting sting
• Penn State's Sandusky wins partial victory in bid for child-sex retrial
• Utah judge orders foster child removed from married lesbian couple
• Mormons to resign in Utah protest at church's gay marriage stance
• Subway ex-spokesman should get 12-1/2 year prison term: prosecutors

Texas county says woman killed herself when no one bailed her out Posted: 13 Nov 2015 01:03 PM PST Lawyers for a Texas county sued by the family of black woman found hanged in a jail cell said she committed suicide because she was despondent over her relatives refusing to bail her out. The family of Sandra Bland filed a wrongful death lawsuit in August against a Texas trooper, a sheriff's office and Bland's jailers, accusing them of being responsible for her apparent suicide in a county jail. "It is apparent now that Bland's inability to secure her release from jail, and her family and friends' refusal to bail her out of jail, led her to commit suicide," lawyers for the county said in court documents.

Utah judge amends order taking foster baby from lesbian couple: reports Posted: 13 Nov 2015 12:16 PM PST A Utah judge on Friday amended a controversial ruling that would have forced a married lesbian couple to relinquish custody of their infant foster daughter within a week, instead scheduling a Dec. 4 hearing on the issue, local media reported. The couple has cared for the nine-month-old girl since August, but on Tuesday the judge ordered state child welfare workers to remove the baby from the couple's home because of their sexual orientation and find new foster parents within seven days. According to the state Division of Child and Family Services (DCFS), which opposed the removal order, the judge cited unspecified research that he said showed children were better off with heterosexual parents.

Supreme Court to decide Virginia redistricting case Posted: 13 Nov 2015 12:00 PM PST WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday said it would hear arguments over whether Virginia's Republican-led legislature unlawfully considered race when drawing congressional districts by packing black voters into one Democratic-held district, diluting their clout elsewhere.

Supreme Court to decide major abortion case for first time since 2007 Posted: 13 Nov 2015 11:30 AM PST The U.S. Supreme Court took up a major new abortion case on Friday, agreeing to hear a challenge by abortion providers to parts of a restrictive, Republican-backed Texas law that they contend are aimed at shutting clinics that offer the procedure. The case focuses in part on a provision that has not yet gone into effect requiring clinics to have costly hospital-grade facilities.

'NCIS' actress Pauley Perrette assaulted in Hollywood Posted: 13 Nov 2015 10:43 AM PST By Alex Dobuzinskis LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Pauley Perrette, an actress on the popular U.S. television show "NCIS," was attacked in Los Angeles by a homeless man who punched her repeatedly in the face and made her fear for her life, she said in a social media post. Perrette wrote that on Thursday night she was walking on the street near her home when the man grabbed her and struck her on the nose and forehead while threatening to kill her. "There was an empty garage behind me and I knew if he got me in there I was dead," Perrette wrote in an emotional account of the incident that she shared via Twitter.

Trump vs Carson takes center stage at Orlando Republican summit Posted: 13 Nov 2015 09:57 AM PST By Steve Holland ORLANDO (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson recommended praying for rival Donald Trump on Friday after the bombastic billionaire tested the patience of the party's base by likening Carson to a child molester with pathological tendencies. The fallout from Trump's nasty broadside was likely to reverberate in Orlando where Trump and Carson, the two front-runners, were among a host of candidates due to speak later at the Florida Republican Party's Sunshine Summit. The day-long speechfest will likely also put on display the increasing tensions between two up-and-coming challengers for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination, Senators Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz, who clashed on Thursday over immigration.

Pennsylvania court reinstates Sandusky's $4,900 monthly pension Posted: 13 Nov 2015 08:57 AM PST A Pennsylvania court on Friday reinstated Jerry Sandusky's pension, ruling that a state board had improperly stripped payments to the former Penn State assistant football coach after his 2012 conviction for sexually abusing boys. The State Employees Retirement System (SERS) wrongly denied Sandusky and his wife his $4,900-a-month pension in October 2012, the court ruled, saying he was entitled to the money in part because he had already retired as assistant to legendary head coach Joe Paterno at the time of the crimes. A panel of judges on the Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court retroactively reinstated the pension with interest to the date the SERS board canceled payments.

Fantasy sports company DraftKings sues to stop NY shutdown Posted: 13 Nov 2015 08:42 AM PST DraftKings has filed a lawsuit asking the New York Supreme Court to overturn an order that they shut down in the state, the fantasy sports company said on Friday. New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman on Tuesday ordered the fantasy sports websites DraftKings and FanDuel to stop accepting bets in New York, saying that the operations were essentially illegal gambling. DraftKings said it would fight back in court.

Person arrested for making threats against Michigan Tech black students Posted: 13 Nov 2015 06:36 AM PST A person was arrested for making threats through social media messaging app Yik Yak against black students at Michigan Technological University, a spokeswoman for the school said on Friday. The suspect, who has not been identified, is scheduled to appear at the Houghton County Circuit Court on Friday morning, university spokeswoman Jennifer Donovan said. Houghton is in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, near Lake Superior.

Carson's comeback to Trump's insults: 'Pray for him' Posted: 13 Nov 2015 06:04 AM PST U.S. presidential candidate Ben Carson recommended praying for rival Donald Trump after the real-estate mogul and television personality, in a 95-minute rant in Iowa, likening him to a child molester, Carson's business manager said on Friday. "When I spoke with Dr. Carson about this yesterday how we should respond, you know he was so sad about it. "To see him just imploding before our very eyes - it's just sad to watch," Williams said.

Lockdown at Marist College in New York after online threat Posted: 13 Nov 2015 05:48 AM PST Marist College, a small private school 84 miles (135 km) north of New York City, was on lockdown with classes canceled on Friday because of an online, anonymous threat, police and campus security said. "We are aware of the threat and are investigating," said a spokeswoman for the Poughkeepsie Police Department. Police declined to elaborate on the threat against Marist, a liberal arts college with about 6,400 students, in Poughkeepsie, a town along the Hudson River midway between New York City and Albany.

Higher spend on essentials, online bargains hit U.S. department stores Posted: 13 Nov 2015 04:45 AM PST Trouble at Nordstrom - seen as head-and-shoulder above rivals such as Macy's Inc and cheaper retailers including Kohl's Corp in terms of style, quality and customer service - may indicate a permanent shift in the way people shop and what they buy, analysts said. "The confusing disconnect between the seemingly strong health of the high-end U.S. consumer on paper and actual retailer results is much more a reflection of the tectonic shifts across the retail landscape," Evercore analysts said in a note. Nordstrom followed Macy's on Thursday in reporting same-store sales well below Wall Street expectations and cutting its full-year forecast.

Special Report: Trump's art of the deal - Dispute your bills Posted: 13 Nov 2015 03:29 AM PST By Emily Flitter NEW YORK (Reuters) - Donald Trump has a message for anyone who agrees to do a job for him: If I don't like your work or I think you're trying to rip me off, don't expect to be paid in full.    The billionaire front-runner to be the Republican candidate in the U.S. presidential race says he sometimes refuses to pay bills from contractors he has hired and then forces them to negotiate the final figure down. "I've had many people that when they work for me they get very rich," Trump said in an interview with Reuters, but, "sometimes I renegotiate." Adding: "I'll do that with probably 10 or 15 percent of contractors." The strategy has left some small business owners who have done jobs for him over three decades of real estate deals saying they have felt cheated and don't want to ever work for him again.

El Nino sends rare tropical visitors to California waters Posted: 13 Nov 2015 03:13 AM PST El Nino's warm currents have brought fish in an unexpected spectrum of shapes and colors from Mexican waters to the ocean off California's coast, thrilling scientists with the sight of bright tropical species and giving anglers the chance of a once-in-a-lifetime big catch. Creatures that have made a splash by venturing north in the past several weeks range from a whale shark, a gentle plankton-eating giant that ranks as the world's largest fish and was seen off Southern California, to two palm-sized pufferfish, a species with large and endearing eyes, that washed ashore on the state's central coast. Scientists say El Nino, a periodic warming of ocean surface temperatures in the eastern and central Pacific, has sent warm waves to California's coastal waters that make them more hospitable to fish from the tropics.

Trump questions Carson's 'pathological temper', faith Posted: 13 Nov 2015 01:10 AM PST FORT DODGE, Iowa (AP) — Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, brushing aside any recent claims of civility, has equated Ben Carson's childhood "pathological temper" to the illness of a child molester, questioned his religious awakening and berated voters who support him.

U.S. forces target 'Jihadi John' in airstrike Posted: 12 Nov 2015 08:35 PM PST The IS militant seen in the beheading videos of Western hostages is believed to have been killed, officials say.

Pennsylvania college cancels play after author objects to white actors Posted: 12 Nov 2015 08:04 PM PST A small, state college in northern Pennsylvania has canceled a musical about a week before it was scheduled to open after the playwright objected to the use of white actors for South Asian characters. Clarion University had spent much of the year preparing to stage the punk rock version of "Jesus in India," by dramatist Lloyd Suh, which ran off-Broadway in 2013 and received favorable reviews. Suh, who owns the rights to the musical, sent an e-mail on Monday to the school's play director Marilouise Michel ordering her to either replace the non-Asian actors with "ethnically appropriate actors" or cancel the production, which was due to open Nov. 18.

Pentagon chief fires military assistant, cites misconduct allegations Posted: 12 Nov 2015 05:00 PM PST U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter removed his senior military assistant, Lieutenant General Ron Lewis, from his position on Thursday over allegations of misconduct that Carter learned of this week. Carter has referred the matter to the inspector general of the Defense Department, he said in a brief statement on Thursday. After the inspector general's investigation is complete, the Army may take action, a senior defense official said.

Pentagon chief fires military assistant, cites misconduct allegations Posted: 12 Nov 2015 04:15 PM PST U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter removed his senior military assistant, Lieutenant General Ron Lewis, from his position on Thursday over allegations of misconduct that Carter said he learned of this week. Carter has referred the matter to the inspector general of the Defense Department, he said in a brief statement on Thursday. After the inspector general's investigation is complete, the Army may take action, a senior defense official said.

Secret Service officer arrested in child sexting sting Posted: 12 Nov 2015 03:58 PM PST A U.S. Secret Service officer assigned to the White House was arrested this week after he sent naked pictures of himself to someone he thought was a 14-year-old girl, according to a criminal complaint. Lee Robert Moore, 37, of Church Hill, Maryland, turned himself in to Maryland State Police on Monday and faces charges including solicitation of a minor, according to the complaint filed in U.S. District Court in Delaware. The complaint details a series of pornographic online chats starting in late August between Moore and a Delaware State Police detective posing as a 14-year-old girl.

Penn State's Sandusky wins partial victory in bid for child-sex retrial Posted: 12 Nov 2015 03:43 PM PST A state judge on Thursday ordered Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane to turn over any documents she holds that might suggest the victims of convicted child sex offender Jerry Sandusky had a financial incentive to shade their testimony in his 2012 trial. The order by Judge John Cleland came on the same day that a lawsuit was filed against Kane alleging she retaliated against the team that prosecuted the former Penn State assistant coach by leaking emails and secret grand jury information that embarrassed them.

Utah judge orders foster child removed from married lesbian couple Posted: 12 Nov 2015 03:27 PM PST A married lesbian couple in Utah are reported to be readying a legal challenge to a judge's decision ordering them to relinquish custody of a foster child because of their sexual orientation. Beckie Peirce and April Hoagland, licensed as foster parents earlier this year, have cared for the infant girl over the past three months while the biological mother, who has asked them to adopt the child, goes through proceedings terminating her parental rights, local media have reported. The judge's order, which the Salt Lake Tribune and other outlets said they had confirmed with the court, gave the Utah Division of Child and Family Services (DCFS) seven days to find the year-old girl another home.

Mormons to resign in Utah protest at church's gay marriage stance Posted: 12 Nov 2015 02:57 PM PST The policy, approved last week by leaders of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, added same-sex marriage to the list of acts considered to be a renunciation of the Mormon faith and thus subject to church discipline, including excommunication. At least 650 demonstrators plan to gather on Saturday at a park across the street from the headquarters complex of the Utah-based church, said organizer Lauren Elise McNamara. On a Facebook page created for the event, a woman in a same-sex marriage wrote that she grew up Mormon and feared the new church policy would lead her relatives to disavow her.

Subway ex-spokesman should get 12-1/2 year prison term: prosecutors Posted: 12 Nov 2015 02:09 PM PST Federal prosecutors recommended on Thursday that former Subway sandwich spokesman Jared Fogle spend 12 and a half years in prison and be under lifetime supervision for child pornography and having sex with two minors. Fogle, who became famous after losing weight on a diet that included sandwiches from the fast food chain, agreed in August to a deal with prosecutors under which he would plead guilty to charges of child pornography and traveling for illicit paid sex with minors. Under his agreement, Fogle is scheduled to change his plea to guilty on Nov. 19 and be sentenced by a U.S. district judge in Indianapolis.

You are subscribed to email updates from Yahoo! News - Latest News & Headlines. To stop receiving these emails, you may unsubscribe now.	Email delivery powered by Google
Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, United States