Oil field blast kills one worker, injures another in New Mexico
(Reuters) – An explosion at an oil field in southeastern New Mexico killed one worker and seriously injured another while the men were installing a drilling pipe on Wednesday afternoon, the Lea County undersheriff said on Thursday.
California faces test as it changes school performance measures
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (Reuters) – California will no longer rely solely on student test scores as a measure of how well a public school is performing, the latest effort to balance criticism of standardized testing with increased calls for accountability i…
Dr. Nancy Snyderman leaves NBC News after breaking Ebola quarantine
(Reuters) – NBC News said on Thursday that its chief medical correspondent, Nancy Snyderman, is leaving the network months after the doctor made a controversial decision to break an Ebola quarantine to get take-out soup from a restaurant.
U.S. Army sergeant sentenced to two years for running sex ring
AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) – A U.S. Army soldier who ran a prostitution ring at Fort Hood, one of the largest Army bases in the country, was sentenced by a military judge in Texas on Thursday to two years in prison and given a dishonorable discharge, offi…
Obama budget would shrink deficits by $1.2 trillion over 10 years: CBO
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama’s fiscal 2016 budget proposal would shrink U.S. deficits by $1.232 trillion over 10 years compared to those expected under current tax and spending laws, the Congressional Budget Office said on Thursday.
NIH center to admit U.S. healthcare worker with Ebola
(Reuters) – The U.S. National Institutes of Health will admit to its hospital on Friday a U.S. healthcare worker who tested positive for the Ebola virus while working in Sierra Leone.
More than two decades after murder, New Hampshire man granted parole
MANCHESTER, N.H. (Reuters) – Prison authorities in New Hampshire on Thursday granted parole to William Flynn, who was a teenager when he was found guilty of being the trigger man in a 1990 murder that generated national attention.
As Kleiner finishes cross examination, ex-partner Pao keeps cool
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – A former partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers kept an even demeanor on Thursday as the venture firm’s lawyers finished a cross examination that has portrayed her decision to sue for gender discrimination as highly opportunistic.
Trial of accused murderer of missing New York boy focuses on drug use
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Testimony at the trial of a former grocery store worker accused of murdering a New York City boy in 1979 focused on Thursday on years of drug abuse by the accused man, who defense attorneys contend is severely mentally ill and delu…
The Rev. Willie Barrow, Chicago civil rights leader, dies at 90
CHICAGO (Reuters) – The Rev. Willie T. Barrow, a Chicago civil rights leader known as the “Little Warrior” for her small stature and determination to fight for equality, died on Thursday at age 90.
