NEW YORK

Jury holds bank responsible for Hamas suicide bombings

A U.S. jury found Monday that a large Jordan-based bank should be held responsible for a wave of Hamas-sanctioned suicide bombings in the early 2000s that left several Americans dead or wounded.

Jurors reached the unanimous verdict in a terrorism financing lawsuit against Arab Bank after deliberating two days at a civil trial in federal court in Brooklyn.

Plaintiff’s lawyer Gary Osen said it’s the first time a bank has been found liable for knowingly supporting a terrorist group.

An attorney for the bank, Shand Stephens, predicted the verdict will be overturned on appeal.

The five-week trial only addressed the question of liability. Whether the bank should face damages will be decided by another jury.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska

TV reporter quits on the air to run marijuana business

A television reporter quit her job on live TV with a big four-letter flourish after revealing she owns a medical marijuana business and intends to press for legalization of recreational pot in Alaska.

After reporting on the Alaska Cannabis Club on Sunday night’s broadcast, KTVA’s Charlo Greene identified herself as the business’s owner.

“Everything you’ve heard is why I, the actual owner of the Alaska Cannabis Club, will be dedicating all my energy toward fighting for freedom and for fairness, which begins with legalizing marijuana here in Alaska,” she said. She then used an expletive to quit her job and walked off-camera.

Greene is the professional name used by Charlene Egbe. She said Monday that she knew about a month ago that she would leave the way she did. No one else at the station knew anything about it, she said.

WASHINGTON

Number of homeless kids increasing in U.S. schools

The number of homeless children in U.S. schools is rising.

Education Department statistics released Monday say 1.3 million homeless children were enrolled in U.S. schools in the 2012-2013 school year – an 8 percent increase from the previous school year.

A vast majority of the homeless children were living in “doubled-up” quarters, meaning multiple families were living together not by choice. About 70,000 were identified as living in a hotel or motel.

Children’s advocates say the numbers reflect why a greater emphasis is needed on expanding support for homeless families – not just those living in homeless shelters.

LOS ANGELES

Judge recommends lawyer suspension for fake photos

A judge has recommended a six-month suspension for a Los Angeles attorney who posted doctored photos on her firm’s website that show her with high-profile people such as President Obama, Hillary Clinton and George Clooney.

In an 18-page decision this month, Judge Donald Miles said Svitlana Sangary failed to remove the images after a State Bar warning that they were false advertising; disregarded the disciplinary process and responded to the charges with a 16-page soliloquy that had little or nothing to do with the case. The California Supreme Court will decide on the recommendation.

—From news service reports