CLEVELAND (AP) — A grand jury declined to indict a white rookie police officer in the killing of 12-year-old Tamir Rice, a black youngster who was shot while playing with what turned out to be a pellet gun, a prosecutor said Monday.
Cuyahoga County prosecutor Tim McGinty said it was "indisputable" that the boy was gunned down while drawing the pistol from his waistband — either to hand the weapon over to police or to show them it wasn't real. But McGinty said the officer and his partner had no way of knowing that.
BOSTON – A budget deal reached in Congress temporarily shelved a controversial tax on medical devices that industry leaders in Massachusetts claim has cost jobs and slowed innovation.
The medical device excise tax, enacted as part of the 2010 Affordable Care Act, imposes a 2.3 percent surcharge on sales of equipment by manufacturers and importers and was projected to raise $38 billion over its first decade to help fund the massive overhaul of the nation's health insurance market.
