A Kansas City man suspected of killing five people reported four handgun thefts to police before his arrest. Police suspect Fredrick Scott, who’s 22, used those guns in the shooting deaths and reported them stolen to throw off investigators, according ...
Read More »Access to license-plate data may be possible, court rules
It would violate people’s privacy to publicly release raw data collected by automated license plate readers that police use to determine whether vehicles are linked to crime, but there may be ways to make the information anonymous that would require ...
Read More »US job growth slows to 156K; unemployment up to 4.4 pct.
U.S. job growth slowed in August as employers added 156,000 jobs, though still enough to suggest that most businesses remain confident in an economy now in its ninth year of recovery from the Great Recession. The unemployment rate ticked up ...
Read More »Kansas boy’s relatives sue Kansas, Missouri social workers
Relatives of a 7-year-old boy who suffered horrific abuse before being killed by his stepmother and father and fed to pigs have filed a lawsuit alleging social service workers in Kansas and Missouri knew the boy was being tortured and ...
Read More »Jury awards $417M in lawsuit linking talcum powder to cancer
A Los Angeles jury on Monday ordered Johnson & Johnson to pay $417 million to a woman who claimed in a lawsuit that the talc in its iconic baby powder causes ovarian cancer when applied regularly for feminine hygiene. The ...
Read More »FBI warns of spreading W-2 email theft scheme
The IRS is warning businesses about a sharp increase in email phishing scams involving employees’ W-2 forms — scams that can put staffers’ Social Security numbers and other critical information in the hands of thieves. The government said 200 businesses, ...
Read More »Navy chief orders probe into Pacific fleet after collisions
The U.S. Navy ordered a broad investigation Monday into the performance and readiness of the Pacific-based 7th Fleet after an early morning collision between the USS John S. McCain and an oil tanker in Southeast Asian waters left 10 U.S. ...
Read More »Mastermind of lottery fraud faces 25-year prison sentence
For a decade, computer programmer Eddie Tipton reliably showed up for work at the central Iowa office of the Multi-State Lottery Association and earned the confidence of his co-workers, a team of technicians entrusted to build computers used to randomly ...
Read More »Economists see only slight impact from Fed bond trimming
The nation’s business economists believe that the Federal Reserve’s long-awaited move to start reducing its massive bond holdings will push long-term bond rates higher but most think the impact will be fairly modest. The latest survey, out Monday, of the ...
Read More »Past health chiefs: insurance market stability is the goal
Don’t make things worse. That’s the advice of former U.S. health secretaries of both parties to President Donald Trump and the GOP-led Congress, now that “Obamacare” seems here for the foreseeable future. The 2018 sign-up season for subsidized private health ...
Read More »Bergdahl chooses to have trial heard by judge and not jury
Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl has decided be to tried by a judge — not a military jury — on charges that he endangered comrades by walking off his post in Afghanistan. Bergdahl’s lawyers told the court in a brief filing ...
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