Domestic Glance
Rescue teams searched the charred rubble of homes in a small Texas city on Thursday for survivors of a fiery explosion at a nearby fertilizer plant that killed as many as 15 people, injured more than 160 and destroyed dozens of buildings.
Three to four volunteer firefighters were among the missing following the blast on Wednesday night, said Sgt. William Patrick Swanton of the Waco, Texas, police department.
Survivors sought in West Texas blast
Feds: Mississippi man arrested in ricin scare
An arrest has been made in connection with possibly contaminated letters sent to President Obama and Sen. Roger Wicker, the Department of Justice said Wednesday.
Paul Kevin Curtis was arrested by the FBI at his home in Corinth, Mississippi, the department said in a statement. Discovered Tuesday, the letters were addressed to Wicker, a Mississippi Republican, and to Obama. The justice department release said a third letter was sent to a Mississippi justice official.
Supreme Court rules police must usually try to get warrant before testing blood in DUI cases
The Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that police usually must try to obtain a search warrant from a judge before ordering blood tests for drunken-driving suspects.
The justices sided with a Missouri man who was subjected to a blood test without a warrant and found to have nearly twice the legal limit of alcohol in his blood.
Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote for the court that the natural dissipation of alcohol in the blood is generally not sufficient reason to jettison the requirement that police get a judge’s approval before drawing a blood sample.
Supreme Court limits civil lawsuits alleging atrocities committed abroad
The Supreme Court on Wednesday limited the ability of U.S. courts to hear civil lawsuits alleging corporate complicity in human rights atrocities committed abroad, but not all the justices agreed on how tightly to shut the door.
The justices were unanimous in stopping a case filed by about a dozen Nigerians now living in the United States who allege that Royal Dutch Petroleum, the parent company of Shell Oil, aided and abetted the Nigerian government in torturing and killing people protesting the company’s operations in the Ogoni region during the 1990s.
Court rules Fla. priest abuse suit filed too late
A Florida appeals court has ruled that a former altar boy who claimed he was sexually abused by a Roman Catholic priest filed his lawsuit decades too late.
The 3rd District Court of Appeal on Wednesday upheld a lower court's ruling in favor of the Archdiocese of Miami. The archdiocese was sued by Jorge Rubio, who accused them of negligence for not protecting him from the priest's abuse when he was 10 years old.
Wife of ex-judge confesses in Texas DA slayings
Authorities say the wife of a former judge has confessed to being involved in the shooting deaths of a North Texas district attorney, his wife and an assistant prosecutor.
Kim Lene Williams was arrested early Wednesday. Kaufman County sheriff's spokesman Lt. Justin Lewis says Williams is being charged in all three deaths. Lewis says she is being held on $10 million bond.
Initial tests show ricin in letter to President Obama
The U.S. Secret Service is investigating a letter containing a "suspicious substance" that was addressed to President Obama, the agency confirmed on Wednesday, and at least four U.S. senators also reported receiving suspicious mail.
FBI spokesman Paul Bresson said preliminary tests on the letter to Obama showed evidence of ricin, a powerful toxin that is generally considered to be ineffective as a weapon for mass terrorism.
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