Republican gaining on Democrat in Massachusetts governor’s race: poll
BOSTON (Reuters) – A Republican former hospital executive has pulled into a statistical tie with Massachusetts’ Democratic attorney general in the race to be the state’s next governor, according to a Boston Globe poll released on Friday.
Twelve bodies found in Massachusetts storage unit, prosecutors say
BOSTON (Reuters) – An investigation into a former Massachusetts funeral-home operator has turned grisly, with authorities discovering 12 bodies at a storage unit outside Boston leased by the man, Joseph O’Donnell, authorities said.
Lower Manhattan economy taking off but many new jobs are low wage
New York (Reuters) – Lower Manhattan’s economy is set to take-off. New shopping centers, hotels and food courts are opening in the area that looked more like a war zone after the attacks on September 11, 2001.
U.S. judicial agency to vote on releasing federal prisoners early
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – More than 50,000 drug offenders may be released early from federal prison if a U.S. judiciary agency votes on Friday to change the nation’s sentencing guidelines.
U.S. hearing aid sales gain 6 percent in June, led by veterans: data
COPENHAGEN (Reuters) – The U.S. hearing aid market grew 6 percent year-on-year in June, driven by an increase in sales to Veterans Affairs (VA), a government program for military veterans, data from Bernstein Research showed on Friday.
Colorado issues kidnap alert for woman who claimed dying baby vision
DENVER (Reuters) – Officials in Colorado issued a child-abduction alert late on Thursday for a 5-month-old girl they said was kidnapped in Oklahoma by a woman described as claiming to have had a vision of the infant dying within two days.
Jerry Sandusky’s son recounts sexual abuse by his father
HARRISBURG Pa. (Reuters) – An adopted son of convicted child molester Jerry Sandusky recounted to Oprah Winfrey in often graphic detail how the former Penn State University assistant football coach had molested him as a teenager in what became a “bedti…
Police find woman’s severed head in bushes outside New York home
(Reuters) – Police found a woman’s severed head in bushes outside a Long Island home on Thursday in an area where human body parts were discovered scattered last week, authorities said.
Three U.S. states sue 5-Hour Energy drink over advertising
(Reuters) – Oregon, Washington and Vermont sued the makers of 5-Hour Energy on Thursday for allegedly deceptive and misleading advertising, and said similar suits will follow in other states in the coming weeks.
Mexican authorities identify body of missing New York man
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexican authorities said they had identified human remains found in two black plastic bags as a New York man who had disappeared in January while riding his motorcycle to Brazil for the World Cup, an official said on Thursday.