Drug use up among U.S. pilots killed in crashes: government study
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Tests on pilots killed in plane crashes in the United States since 1990 have found a four-fold increase in the use of legal and illegal drugs, according to a study released on Tuesday by the National Transportation Safety Board.
Ferguson council to meet for first time since Michael Brown shooting
FERGUSON Mo. (Reuters) – Embattled city leaders in Ferguson, Missouri, on Tuesday were preparing to hold their first public meeting since last month’s fatal shooting of an unarmed black teenager by a white police officer ignited weeks of unrest in the …
Snake, seven-foot-long, found lurking near California school
(Reuters) – A 7-foot-long snake was discovered lurking under a parked car outside a middle school in a small Northern California community, a San Mateo County Sheriff’s spokeswoman said on Tuesday.
U.S. blames pilot errors, fatigue for 2013 UPS plane crash in Alabama
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The fatal crash of a United Parcel Service Inc cargo plane at an Alabama airport last year resulted from pilot errors that caused it to clip trees and slam into the ground just short of the runway, the National Transportation Saf…
Boston Scientific ordered to pay $73 million over mesh device
(Reuters) – A Texas jury has ordered Boston Scientific Corp to pay $73 million to a woman who said she suffered serious injuries from a transvaginal mesh device, the first loss for the device maker in one of thousands of suits over the products.
Fourth American Ebola patient arrives in U.S. for care
(Reuters) – An American doctor infected with Ebola in Sierra Leone arrived at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta on Tuesday, the fourth patient with the virus to be taken to the United States from West Africa for treatment, the hospital said.
Searchers comb Montana valley for missing college student
(Reuters) – Dozens of law enforcement officials and volunteers scoured the winding canyons and trout streams of western Montana on Tuesday in a search for a University of Montana student who is the second to go missing in recent weeks.
Remains of Tennessee student found three years after her disappearance
NASHVILLE Tenn. (Reuters) – The partial remains of missing Tennessee student Holly Bobo, a cousin of country music singer Whitney Duncan, have been found in Tennessee more than three years after she disappeared, officials said.
U.S. judge re-sentences Jose Padilla to 21 years on terrorism charges
MIAMI (Reuters) – A U.S. federal judge in Miami re-sentenced Jose Padilla on Tuesday to 21 years for a 2007 terrorism conviction after an appeals court deemed the original 17-year sentence too lenient.
Reform candidate closes gap in race to be California schools chief: poll
SACRAMENTO Calif. (Reuters) – A former charter school executive aiming to unseat California’s education chief is in a statistical tie in a race shaping up to be a proxy war between school reform advocates and the state’s powerful teachers unions, a pol…
