SC Highway Patrol trooper injured at accident site
ORANGEBURG, S.C. -- Authorities say a South Carolina Highway Patrol trooper was seriously injured when a vehicle struck his patrol car as he was investigating an accident on Interstate 26.
The state Department of Public Safety said 27-year-old Howard F. James Jr., was in stable condition Friday night in a hospital intensive care unit.
Feds seek order on housing in NY county
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. – The federal government asked a judge Friday to compel New York's Westchester County to provide information about local zoning practices that might be racially discriminatory.
The motion by the U.S. attorney's office stems from a 3-year-old settlement of a lawsuit over racial patterns in housing. The settlement required Westchester, a suburban county just north of New York City, to build 750 units, mostly in heavily-white areas, and market them to non-whites.
SAN ANTONIO (AP) – An Air Force instructor implicated in a sweeping sex scandal at one of the nation's busiest military training bases was convicted in military court Friday of raping one female recruit and sexually assaulting several others.
