U.S. Open referee charged with killing husband with mug heads back to L.A

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A prominent professional tennis referee who was in New York for the U.S. Open was turned over by authorities to Los Angeles police on Thursday to face charges she bludgeoned her elderly husband to death with a coffee mug.

At a brief Manhattan court appearance, Lois Ann Goodman, 70, was handed into the custody of Los Angeles police detectives who had travelled to New York to retrieve her. She was expected to appear in court on Monday in Los Angeles, her attorney said.