Pennsylvania man charged with abusing six Amish sisters

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A Pennsylvania man accused earlier this year of raping an underage Amish teenager after receiving her as a "gift" from her parents was charged on Monday with sexually abusing the victim’s five younger sisters, according to court records.

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Trio pleads not guilty in New Jersey gun transport case

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Three Pennsylvania residents pleaded not guilty on Monday to charges of attempting to drive an SUV loaded with weapons through a tunnel under the Hudson River into New York, a city with some of the strictest gun restrictions in the United States.

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Southwest Airlines' union approves tentative agreement

(Reuters) - U.S. budget airline Southwest Airlines Co said on Monday that its flight attendants union voted to ratify a tentative agreement that the parties had reached in September.

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Boy, 12, nabbed for suspected drunken driving in Austin, Texas

AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - A 12-year-old Texas boy driving a car rammed into a pickup truck and a utility pole as he tried to evade police before his vehicle tipped over and he was taken into custody on suspicion of driving while intoxicated, authorities said.

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Airbnb, New York in talks to resolve rental law lawsuit: source

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Airbnb Inc and New York state are in talks to resolve a lawsuit brought by the company challenging a law it says could expose it to significant penalties for advertising short-term apartment rentals, a person familiar with the matter said on Monday.

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A girl and her dog: top U.S. court mulls discrimination claim

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Not for the first time, a pooch named Wonder was left out in the cold on Monday, waiting outside the U.S. Supreme Court as the justices considered whether a Michigan school district can be sued for not letting a disabled girl take the service dog to class.

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Defendant in U.S. opioid kickback case claims constitutional right to smoke pot

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. ex-pharmaceutical sales representative accused of paying kickbacks to induce doctors to write prescriptions for an opioid drug is asserting he has a constitutional right to continue smoking marijuana so he can remain clear-headed for his defense.

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Fire at Ford Motor headquarters in Michigan, none injured

DETROIT (Reuters) - Ford Motor Co said a fire at its headquarters in Dearborn, Michigan, on Monday did not injure anyone but caused the 1,500 employees based there to leave the 60-year-old building for the day.

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Petition of White House to reverse Navy ratings change tops threshold

(Reuters) - A petition to the White House to halt the U.S. Navy's abolition of sailors' traditional ratings that are more than two centuries old has topped 100,000 signatures, above the number needed for an official response, according to the online petition site.

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Convicted Russian arms dealer Bout returns to U.S. appeals court

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Russian arms trafficker Viktor Bout, who is serving a 25-year prison sentence for agreeing to sell weapons to people he thought were Colombian rebels, urged a U.S. appeals court on Monday to overturn a ruling that denied him a new trial.

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McDonald's to pay $3.75 million in first settlement with franchise workers

(Reuters) - McDonald's Corp has agreed to pay $3.75 million to settle a lawsuit claiming it was liable for labor law violations by a California franchisee, marking what lawyers said was the first time the company has settled legal claims by a group of U.S. workers at one of its franchises.

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Three found shot to death outside rural Kansas home

(Reuters) - Two men and a woman were found shot to death outside a home in a rural county of Kansas in an apparent triple homicide, police said on Monday.

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South Carolina ex-policeman's murder trial opens with jury selection

CHARLESTON, S.C. (Reuters) - The murder trial of a former South Carolina policeman who shot an unarmed black motorist last year opens on Monday with jury selection, putting the national spotlight back on a case that dramatized the issue of racial bias in law enforcement.Michael Slager, a white North Charleston police officer, was arrested and charged with murder in April 2015 when a bystander's cellphone video emerged that appeared to show him firing eight times at the back of a black man who wa

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