Guard arrested in death of inmate

Guard arrested in death of inmate

NEW YORK

Authorities have arrested a New York City jail guard in connection with the death of a homeless ex-Marine in a 101-degree cell.

Carol Lackner was arraigned Monday on falsifying business records and official-misconduct charges. She faces up to four years if convicted.

In May, The Associated Press reported Lackner had a history of abandoning her Rikers Island jail post. The AP also reported although logbooks indicated she toured Jerome Murdough’s unit, video surveillance didn’t show her doing so.

Lackner was suspended for 30 days after an investigation found she abandoned her post before Murdough was discovered.

New Delhi bans Uber in rape case

NEW DELHI

The Indian capital on Monday banned taxi-booking service Uber after a woman accused one of its drivers of raping her.

Transport official Satish Mathur made the announcement as the 32-year-old suspect appeared in a New Delhi court.

The court ordered Shiv Kumar Yadav held for three days for police questioning over allegations that he raped the finance-company employee after being hired to ferry her home from a dinner engagement Friday night. The court also ordered Yadav’s cellphone confiscated, according to Press Trust of India.

The case, almost two years after a young woman was fatally gang-raped on a bus in the capital, has renewed national anger over sexual violence in India and demands for more effort to ensure women’s safety.

Autopsy released in Brown shooting

ST. LOUIS

A federal autopsy in the Ferguson police shooting reached similar conclusions to those performed by local officials and a private examiner hired by 18-year-old Michael Brown’s family, documents released Monday evening show.

The Armed Forces Medical Examiner System’s autopsy on Brown, conducted at the request of the Department of Justice, was among grand jury documents that St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney Bob McCulloch released Monday with little explanation. Other documents include transcripts of eight federal interviews of possible witnesses to Brown’s shooting in early August; police radio traffic; and a purported audio recording of the shots fired by Wilson.

Wrongful-death claim notices filed

HARTFORD, Conn.

The parents of 10 children killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School have filed or soon will file notices in probate court that they plan to make wrongful-death claims on their children’s behalf.

Filing the forms that open estates in the children’s names, with their parents as the administrators, is a necessary legal step before a lawsuit can be filed.

Eight estates that were opened Monday are in the names of Benjamin Wheeler, Jessica Rekos, Jack Pinto, Grace McDonnell, Charlotte Bacon, Daniel Barden, Ana Marquez-Greene and Arielle Richman, according to probate court records.

Man says he saw demon before attack

NILES, Mich.

A passenger accused of stabbing four people on an Amtrak train in southwest Michigan told police he began the attack after seeing another man turn into a demon, according to court documents released Monday.

Michael D. Williams was arraigned Monday on attempted-murder charges and requested a court- appointed attorney. A judge entered a not-guilty plea on his behalf and ordered him held in the Berrien County jail on $1 million bond.

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