COLUMBUS, Ohio – Ohio is asking a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit filed by four death row inmates who are challenging a new state law that shields the names of companies providing lethal injection drugs. The inmates say the law violates free speech rights. They have asked the same …
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COLUMBUS, Ohio – The state has rescheduled executions for seven death row inmates as it tries to find new lethal drugs, meaning no inmate will be put to death in Ohio in 2015. The announcement Friday affects six executions this year, including one set for Feb. 11, and one previously …
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LARGO, Fla. – A man accused of throwing his daughter off a bridge has been found incompetent to stand trial. John Jonchuck appeared in court Tuesday. The case has been reset for a status check on Feb. 17. If the court rules in line with the doctors’ reports, Jonchuck would …
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ANKARA, Turkey – A U.S. State Department official has expressed concern over a Turkish security bill that would expand police rights to use firearms and to search and detain people. The official, Thomas Melia said Friday that the bill which is being debated in Turkey’s parliament could lead to “over-zealous …
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WASHINGTON – The White House, State Department, and Capitol were all affected by reports of widespread power outages across Washington and its suburbs Tuesday afternoon. The utility company Pepco said it was investigating the outage reports. Spokesman Sean Kelly said he did not have details about locations or how many …
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DALLAS – Dallas has a new vault to store historic city documents, including items from the 1963 JFK assassination. Mayor Mike Rawlings helped dedicate the storage area in the basement of Dallas City Hall on Wednesday. It has protective lighting, controls for temperature and humidity, and more than doubles the …
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ATLANTA – A teenager is hospitalized with burns covering 70 percent of his body after two other teens attacked him with a pot of boiling rice while he was sleeping. WSB-TV (http://bit.ly/1JAp6dz) reports the 17-year-old victim is in a medically-induced coma in critical condition at Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta …
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SPRINGFIELD, Mass. – Officials in one Massachusetts city are moving to sell a city-owned lot that Habitat for Humanity mistakenly built a home on. The sale would allow the family that lives there to stay. The Republican (http://bit.ly/1zOs3Yt ) in Springfield reports that the home was built in 2012, but …
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Four Philadelphia police officers were injured in a traffic incident Tuesday afternoon by a motorist they were trying to help, who then tried to run them down before being shot by police, MyFoxPhilly reported. The incident began when officers approached a sedan that had crashed into a wall in the …
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DENVER – Denver impresario Lu Vason has died, leaving a legacy of creating opportunities for black cowboys and of celebrating a little-known aspect of Western history. The 76-year-old Vason, who founded the Bill Pickett Invitational Rodeo three decades ago, died Sunday in a Denver hospital of heart complications, family spokesman …
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