Cheap, synthetic ‘flakka’ dethroning cocaine on Florida drug scene
MIAMI (Reuters) – For decades, South Florida has battled drug traffickers who ship boatloads of cocaine from South America. Now the region is dealing with a new epidemic – cheap, synthetic drugs that arrive from China through the mail.
Family of dead NYC teen loses court battle over brain
ALBANY, N.Y. (Reuters) – The family of a New York City teen who died in a car crash had no right to be notified that his brain was removed during an autopsy, New York state’s top court ruled, overturning a $600,000 jury verdict awarded to his parents.
Murder charges dropped for Georgia woman who took abortion pill
ATLANTA (Reuters) – Georgia prosecutors are dropping a murder charge against a woman who was jailed in the death of her 5 1/2-month-old fetus after she took an abortion-inducing pill, officials said on Wednesday.
Bus crash in New York’s Lincoln Tunnel injures 18 people
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Two buses crashed in the Lincoln Tunnel linking New York City and New Jersey on Wednesday, injuring 18 people at the end of morning rush hour, none of them critically, officials said.
New U.S. truck emissions rules could touch off industry struggle
CHICAGO (Reuters) – U.S. environmental regulators are expected within days to propose rules to make trucks more fuel efficient, and trucking industry executives and lobbyists familiar with the process said the rules will probably call for boosting fuel…
Uber loses bid for arbitration in U.S. driver lawsuit
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Uber lost a bid to force arbitration in a lawsuit brought by its drivers, as a U.S. judge ruled the smartphone-based taxi service’s 2013 and 2014 employment contracts dealing with arbitration from were “unconscionable, and the…
Suspect in Virginia student’s murder convicted in sex attack
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The suspect in the high-profile murder of Virginia college student Hannah Graham was convicted on Wednesday in a separate sexual assault trial, the prosecutor’s office said.
Bear that may have attacked teen at national park euthanized
(Reuters) – A black bear believed to have attacked an Ohio teenager over the weekend in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park has been captured and euthanized, a parks spokeswoman said on Wednesday.
Abortion rights groups file motion to halt key provisions in Texas law
AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) – Several women’s health providers filed a motion on Wednesday seeking to halt a U.S. appeals court decision a day earlier allowing Texas to impose restrictions on abortions, and said they plan to take the case to the U.S. Supre…
U.S. EPA moves toward regulating aircraft emissions
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Obama administration on Wednesday released a scientific finding that greenhouse gases from aircraft pose a risk to human health, paving the way for regulating emissions from the U.S. aviation industry.
