| Grand jury indicts truck driver in Tracy Morgan crash Posted: 23 Dec 2015 10:55 AM PST  NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. (AP) — A New Jersey grand jury has indicted the truck driver who crashed into a limo van carrying Tracy Morgan, killing one man and severely injuring the comedian.
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| A frustrated Jeb Bush unloads on Donald Trump Posted: 23 Dec 2015 09:16 AM PST |
| Black Lives Matter to protest at Mall of America again despite warning Posted: 23 Dec 2015 08:59 AM PST  Protesters angered by the police killing of an unarmed black man in Minneapolis last month plan to demonstrate at the Mall of America on Wednesday, one of the busiest shopping days of the year, despite a judge's warning that the property's owners could legally block the action. This marks the second consecutive year that the loosely organized Black Lives Matter movement, which grew out of protests over police killings in Ferguson, Missouri, New York and other cities, has planned a protest at one of the largest shopping malls in North America near the peak of the holiday shopping season. Black Lives Matter demonstrators camped outside a Minneapolis police station for nearly three weeks after a police officer shot Jamar Clark, 24, on Nov. 15.
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| U.S. says eighth death linked to Takata airbag rupture Posted: 23 Dec 2015 08:27 AM PST  The U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said Wednesday that an eighth U.S. death is linked to a faulty Takata airbag inflator, marking the first reported death since April and ninth death worldwide. NHTSA spokesman Gordon Trowbridge told reporters on a conference call that the new death took place in July in a recalled 2001 Honda Accord. The unidentified driver was hospitalized after a Takata airbag ruptured and the driver died several days later.
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| Driver who plowed into Las Vegas crowd due for first court appearance Posted: 23 Dec 2015 03:22 AM PST  By Alexia Shurmur LAS VEGAS (Reuters) - An Oregon woman accused of plowing her car into a crowd on the Las Vegas Strip, killing one person and injuring dozens, was due to make her first court appearance on Wednesday to face charges that include murder. Lakeisha Holloway, 24, who police said had her 3-year-old daughter with her in the car at the time, has been charged with one count of murder through use of a deadly weapon in the death of a 32-year-old Arizona woman who was among the pedestrians struck by the car. Holloway has been detained without bond since her arrest shortly after Sunday's incident, which happened near Planet Hollywood, where the Miss Universe beauty pageant was being held.
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| Real estate heir Robert Durst to be extradited to Los Angeles in writer's death Posted: 23 Dec 2015 02:49 AM PST  (Reuters) - Real estate heir Robert Durst, charged in the 15-year-old murder of a longtime friend as a television show suggested he might have killed her, will return to California from Louisiana to face a homicide charge, prosecutors said on Tuesday. Durst, who also faces charges of illegal firearms possession in federal court in Louisiana, will be arraigned on a single murder charge in the 2000 killing of writer Susan Berman by Aug. 18, 2016 in Superior Court in Los Angeles, District Attorney Jackie Lacy said.
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| Kentucky governor orders clerks' names removed from marriage licenses Posted: 23 Dec 2015 02:32 AM PST  By Steve Bittenbender LOUISVILLE, Ky. (Reuters) - Kentucky's new governor on Tuesday ordered county clerks' names removed from state marriage license forms at the center of a controversy involving Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis, who was jailed after refusing to issue licenses to gay couples. Governor Matt Bevin had said shortly after his election in November, as only the second Republican governor of Kentucky since 1971, that he would change the forms that had drawn objections from Davis and some other clerks. "To ensure that the sincerely held religious beliefs of all Kentuckians are honored, I took action to revise the clerk marriage license form," Bevin said in a statement.
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| Man pulled out alive from China mudslide after three days Posted: 23 Dec 2015 01:28 AM PST  By Paul Carsten SHENZHEN, China (Reuters) - A man was pulled out alive from rubble in a southern Chinese city on Wednesday, more than 60 hours after a waste heap collapsed and buried dozens of buildings in mud and construction debris, state media said. Tian Zeming, who was found at 3:30 a.m. (2.30 p.m. ET Tuesday), was in a coherent state but his legs had been crushed in Sunday's landslide at an industrial park in Shenzhen, a boomtown near Hong Kong. "He told the soldiers who rescued him, there is another survivor close by," state news agency Xinhua said, although it later reported rescuers had found another body rather than a survivor.
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| Judge upholds Seattle's 'gun violence' tax Posted: 22 Dec 2015 09:12 PM PST  The Seattle City Council unanimously approved a "gun violence tax" on sellers of firearms and ammunition in August, directing proceeds toward violence prevention programs and research beginning in January 2016. A companion measure requires gun owners to report cases of lost and stolen firearms to police.
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| Identities revealed for all six U.S. troops killed in Afghanistan attack Posted: 22 Dec 2015 08:23 PM PST  By Barbara Goldberg NEW YORK (Reuters) - A female Air Force officer who was one of the first openly gay U.S. service members to get married was identified on Tuesday as one of the six U.S. troops killed by a suicide bomber near Bagram air base in Afghanistan. Air Force Major Adrianna Vorderbruggen, who was commanding the security patrol targeted in Monday's attack, was the first openly gay U.S. servicewoman killed in action, the Daily Beast news website reported, citing a Department of Defense official. Vorderbruggen, 36, was assigned to the Air Force Office of Special Investigations (OSI), the main law enforcement branch of the Air Force.
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| Clinton takes shot at Trump: 'Shouldn't let anybody bully his way to the presidency' Posted: 22 Dec 2015 07:18 PM PST |
| Real estate heir Robert Durst to be extradited to Los Angeles in writer's death Posted: 22 Dec 2015 04:17 PM PST  (Reuters) - Real estate heir Robert Durst, charged in the 15-year-old murder of a longtime friend as a television show suggested he might have killed her, will return to California from Louisiana to face a homicide charge, prosecutors said on Tuesday. Durst, who also faces charges of illegal firearms possession in federal court in Louisiana, will be arraigned on a single murder charge in the 2000 killing of writer Susan Berman by Aug. 18, 2016 in Superior Court in Los Angeles, District Attorney Jackie Lacy said.
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| Americans aware of Chipotle outbreak eat there less often: poll Posted: 22 Dec 2015 03:59 PM PST  By Tom Polansek CHICAGO (Reuters) - Nearly a quarter of Americans who have heard of recent E. coli outbreaks at Chipotle Mexican Grill said they are eating less often at its restaurants, a new Reuters/Ipsos poll showed on Tuesday, while social media sentiment towards the chain hit a low. Consumers and investors are trying to understand whether Chipotle has solved its food problems and is a safe place to eat, and concerns have deepened since federal investigators on Monday said they were looking at what appeared to be a new Chipotle outbreak in late November. The company says it is rolling out a new food safety plan that will "eliminate or mitigate risk to a level as near zero as possible", although industry experts say Chipotle needs to give more details to show that its new plan will work.
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| Media spotlight will help in catching Texas 'affluenza' teen: sheriff Posted: 22 Dec 2015 03:43 PM PST  By Marice Richter FORT WORTH, Texas (Reuters) - The search for a Texas teen from a wealthy family, missing after apparently breaking a probation deal that kept him out of prison for killing four people, has been aided by publicity that could lead to his arrest, a sheriff leading the probe said on Tuesday. Ethan Couch, 18, convicted about two years ago in juvenile court for intoxication manslaughter, is being sought as a fugitive. At age 16, Couch was speeding and had a blood-alcohol level of nearly three times the legal limit when he lost control of his pickup truck and fatally struck a stranded motorist on the side of the road and three Good Samaritans who had stopped to help.
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