Toddler first in Michigan to die from enterovirus strain
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A 21-month-old girl is the first in the state of Michigan and second in the U.S. to die this year from a strain of the enterovirus that has infected more than 500 people across the nation, health officials said on Saturday.
Family names new lawyer in $75 million New York chokehold lawsuit
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The family of a black New Yorker who died after a local police officer put the 43-year old man in a chokehold announced on Saturday it chose a new attorney for its planned $75 million wrongful death lawsuit, a spokesman for a civil…
Ebola screening starts at New York’s JFK airport
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Medical teams at New York’s JFK airport, armed with Ebola questionnaires and temperature guns, began screening travelers from three West African countries on Saturday as U.S. health authorities stepped up efforts to stop the spread…
New Jersey officials order ‘symptom-less’ NBC News crew into Ebola quarantine
(Reuters) – Members of an NBC News crew who worked with a cameraman who contracted Ebola in Liberia have been quarantined, New Jersey health officials said on Saturday.
Zombie attraction turns fatal at corn maze on Idaho-Washington border
(Reuters) – A teenager playing a zombie at a Halloween-themed corn maze was killed after falling under the event’s “Zombie Slayer Paintball Bus,” authorities said on Saturday, as the northwestern Idaho attraction’s patrons thought it was just part of t…
Thousands march in St. Louis to protest police violence
FERGUSON Mo (Reuters) – Thousands of protesters marched through St. Louis on Saturday as part of a weekend of demonstrations against police violence organized after the fatal shooting of an unarmed black teenager by a white officer last summer.
Man sought for smoke-bombing trendy Greenwich Village restaurant
NEW YORK (Reuters) – New York police are searching for a man seen hurling a smoke bomb at diners seated outdoors at a trendy Italian restaurant frequented by celebrities in Manhattan’s Greenwich Village.
Cities, states scramble after Dallas’s Ebola missteps expose planning gaps
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The missteps in Dallas’s handling of the first Ebola case diagnosed in the United States have revealed an uncomfortable reality: state and city plans for handling the deadly virus are based on generic recommendations for everything…
Unit at Colorado’s Fort Carson locked down after property goes missing
(Reuters) – A unit at Fort Carson in Colorado entered the third day of a lockdown after a piece of government property was taken without permission, an army representative said on Friday.
Seven New Jersey students charged over sexual assaults: New York Times
(Reuters) – Seven New Jersey high school students have been charged following a string of sexual assaults in a hazing controversy that prompted officials to cancel the remainder of the school’s football season, the New York Times reported on Friday.
