DETROIT – An Iraqi man living in Michigan is charged with lying to federal officials about plans to train and fight with the Islamic State group in the Middle East. A federal complaint says Al-Hamzah Mohammad Jawad was detained Tuesday by agents at Detroit Metropolitan Airport, where he was scheduled …
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GADSDEN, Ala. – Jury selection is being delayed a third day by snow in the capital murder trial of a woman accused of making her granddaughter run until she died. Some roads were still icy in northeast Alabama around Etowah County early Friday, and officials say Joyce Hardin Garrard’s trial …
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MADISON, Wis. – Watergate historian Stanley Kutler, who successfully fought for the release of President Richard Nixon’s secret tapes, has died in Wisconsin. He was 80. Kutler died Tuesday in hospice care in the Madison suburb of Fitchburg, according to his son, Andy Kutler. Kutler taught for 32 years at …
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ATLANTA – A pharmaceutical expert says a problem with a lethal injection drug that caused the last-minute postponement of an execution in Georgia was likely caused by shipping and storing the drug at a temperature that was too low. State officials on March 2 called off the scheduled execution of …
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HOUSTON – Six Texas jailers have been fired and 29 others have been suspended after a mentally ill inmate was left unattended in his jail cell for weeks. Among those fired by Harris County Sheriff Adrian Garcia on Friday were two jail sergeants who have been indicted on record-tampering charges …
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SANTA FE, N.M. – An appeals court has upheld a man’s conviction on a breaking-and-entering charge that stemmed from a thwarted burglary attempt in Las Cruces. Anthony Holt was breaking through a screen on a home’s window when he realized a woman was in the home. He said “Oh I’m …
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RALEIGH, N.C. – A police officer suing Starbucks after being burned by a free cup of coffee has testified that he drove home to have the injury photographed before he sought medical care. The News & Observer of Raleigh, North Carolina, reports (http://bit.ly/1Rgsr7l) Wednesday that officer Matthew Kohr told jurors …
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CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa – Federal agents have charged four people in Iowa with conspiring to illegally ship a large amount of guns and ammunition to Lebanon. A criminal complaint unsealed Tuesday shows agents intercepted cargo containers bound for Lebanon last week containing 152 firearms and more than 15,000 rounds of …
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TOKYO – The governor of Japan’s southern Okinawa region says he is heading to Washington to convey local objections to a plan to relocate a U.S. air base from one area of the island to another. A plan set in 1996 would move U.S. Marine Air Station Futenma to a …
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NEW YORK – The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation is giving 20 jails of all sizes $150,000 each to come up with ways to reduce the number of people unnecessarily behind bars. The jails announced Wednesday to receive planning grants include the nation’s biggest jails in Los Angeles, …
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