Exclusive: CDC installing cameras in labs in agency-wide safety push
ATLANTA (Reuters) – The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has introduced camera monitoring of workers in its highest-level biosafety laboratories as it seeks to restore public faith in its procedures after a series of mishaps, agenc…
Texas set to execute man for killing woman, setting her body on fire
AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) – Texas plans on Thursday to execute Robert Ladd, 57, who was convicted of beating a woman to death with a hammer in her home in 1996 and then setting her body on fire.
Police find human remains in suitcase on San Francisco sidewalk
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – San Francisco police on Wednesday discovered human body parts stuffed inside a suitcase that had been ditched on the sidewalk of a downtown street, officials said.
One dead, six injured in San Francisco fire
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – One person died and six people were injured after a fire scorched a San Francisco building on Wednesday night, officials said.
Seattle police officer to be reviewed for arrest of innocent black man
SEATTLE (Reuters) – Seattle’s police chief on Wednesday ordered a review of an officer who wrongly arrested an elderly black man last summer, an incident for which the department apologized a day earlier.
Montana bride has no grounds to appeal murder conviction: prosecutors
(Reuters) – Federal prosecutors on Wednesday said a Montana bride who admitted pushing her new husband off a cliff at Glacier National Park has no grounds to appeal her murder conviction after lying to officials and using trickery in a bid to conceal h…
Pentagon official urges NATO to focus on innovative weapons
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Deputy Defense Secretary Robert Work on Wednesday urged NATO allies to develop and make more innovative weapons, and said bold action was needed to stay ahead of rapid weapons development by China, Russia and other countries…
Armed man detained near Super Bowl events sent for mental tests
PHOENIX (Reuters) – Phoenix police have sent a man for mental evaluation after he was detained while acting suspiciously near pre-Super Bowl events held in the city center and was found to be in possession of two guns and a knife, authorities said on W…
California school orders non-vaccinated kids home after possible measles case
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – A California high school barred dozens of non-vaccinated students from school on Wednesday over concern that a classmate may have contracted measles in a rare outbreak of the highly contagious disease that began at a Disneyland …
Laser’s co-inventor, Nobel laureate Charles Townes, dead at 99
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Charles Townes, who shared the 1964 Nobel Prize in Physics for invention of the laser, a feat that revolutionized science, medicine, telecommunications and entertainment, has died at age 99, the University of California at Ber…
