National Briefs: Graduation for 2 female Rangers - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

COLUMBUS, Ga. — Two women became the first female soldiers to earn the Ranger tab after graduating from Ranger School Friday morning. The two women were part of a class of 96 students that had to deal not only with the strict standards and the unprecedented media attention that the women in the class brought, but also a lightning strike in the final days of the Florida phase... CHARLOTTE, N. C. —A North Carolina judge declared a mistrial on Friday when a jury deadlocked in the trial of a white police officer charged in the death of an unarmed black man. Randall Kerrick, 29, faced a charge of voluntary manslaughter in the 2013 death of Jonathan Ferrell, 24, a former Florida A&M football player who had wrecked his car on a dark road and was seeking help when he encountered officers. —A Delaware judge on Friday ordered a former Baltimore Ravens cheerleader to serve 48 weekends in jail for having sex with a 15-year-old boy who was friends with her teenage son, prosecutors said. Molly Shattuck, 48, pleaded guilty in June to one count of fourth-degree rape for performing oral sex on the boy after giving him alcohol at a Delaware beach home last summer. Fourth-degree rape applies to statutory rape cases. The Pennsylvania native graduated from Ford City High School in Armstrong County in 1985 and from Indiana University of Pennsylvania in 1989 with a degree in marketing, the Indiana Gazette reported. Source: www.post-gazette.com