U.S. FDA Commissioner Margaret Hamburg to step down
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Dr. Margaret Hamburg, who as commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for almost six years has overseen public health initiatives ranging from tobacco control and food safety to personalized medicine and drug a…
Police officer shot in Massachusetts, lockdown on Cape Cod
BOSTON (Reuters) – Police in Bourne, Massachusetts, asked residents of part of the Cape Cod town to remain in their homes on Thursday morning while they cleared a home of explosive devices after a man shot three people including a police officer overni…
Two students shot, wounded at Maryland high school
(Reuters) – Two students were shot and suffered non-life-threatening wounds outside a gym during a basketball game at a Maryland high school on Wednesday, local police and the school district said.
Small plane crashes into Texas TV tower, pilot killed
(Reuters) – The pilot of a small plane died on Wednesday night after crashing into a TV tower in western Texas, officials said, knocking a television station off the air.
Most New Jersey residents think Gov. Christie focused on own ambitions: poll
(Reuters) – New Jersey residents are becoming increasingly skeptical of the motives of Governor Chris Christie and think he is more focused on his own political future than governing the state, according to a poll on Wednesday.
Train cars carrying ethanol derail, catch fire in Iowa
(Reuters) – Eleven railway cars carrying ethanol fuel derailed on Wednesday in a remote location north of Dubuque, Iowa, and three of them caught on fire, Canadian Pacific (CP) railway said.
Kentucky teen charged with rape, theft after multi-state spree
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (Reuters) – A Kentucky teenager arrested last month along with his underage girlfriend after an alleged crime spree has been charged with second-degree rape and is set to appear in court on Monday, according to court documents and the c…
Electrified rail pierced New York train in crash, official says
VALHALLA, N.Y. (Reuters) – Hundreds of feet of electrified rail skewered the first two carriages of a New York commuter train in a collision with a car at a railroad crossing, a federal investigator said on Wednesday, describing the area’s worst rail c…
Michigan man threatened to behead NYPD ‘chokehold’ officer: FBI
DETROIT (Reuters) – A Detroit-area man has been accused of threatening to behead a New York City police officer whose fatal choke-hold on an unarmed black man led to protests around the United States over police use of force.
Texas executes inmate convicted of killing a police officer
AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) – A man who was in a group of seven inmates behind one of the biggest prison escapes in Texas history was executed on Wednesday for taking part in the murder of a suburban Dallas police officer on Christmas Eve 2000, a prisons o…
