New lung cancer screening guidelines could cost Medicare $9.3 billion
CHICAGO (Reuters) – A study of Medicare beneficiaries with a history of heavy smoking found that new lung cancer screening guidelines would likely double the proportion of lung cancers found at an early stage, but at a steep cost of some $9.3 billion o…
Elevator halts at reopened Washington Monument
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The elevator in the Washington Monument stopped working on Wednesday, frustrating visitors two days after the U.S. capital landmark reopened to the public.
FBI offers reward in search for decapitated Georgia man’s widow
ATLANTA (Reuters) – The FBI on Wednesday offered a reward of up to $20,000 for information on a missing 87-year-old Georgia woman whose husband was found beheaded in the couple’s home.
‘Miracle baby’ survives 11-story fall from Minneapolis apartment
(Reuters) – A 15-month-old boy described by doctors as a “miracle baby” was in critical condition at a Minneapolis hospital on Wednesday after surviving an 11-story fall from the balcony of an apartment building.
N.Y. school board president resigns after calling parent ‘chubby wubby’
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A school board president in a small upstate New York town has resigned after a video of him calling a parent “chubby wubby” at a meeting surfaced online, school officials said on Wednesday.
New York’s September 11 Memorial Museum readies for its close-up
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A museum memorializing the September 11, 2001, attacks opens this week to victims’ family members and next week to the public, displaying artifacts from mangled columns recalling the enormity of that fateful day to shattered eyegla…
Dallas-bound flight makes emergency landing in Tulsa
(Reuters) – No one was injured on Wednesday when an American Airlines flight made an emergency landing at Tulsa International Airport after experiencing mechanical problems, officials said.
Trains for grains scarce on the U.S. Plains
(Reuters) – In the northern U.S. Plains, where there are no commercially navigable rivers, the U.S. rail system long has served as the lone, dependable way for farms to move grain hundreds of miles to reach ports and sell around the world.
Muslim group calls for probe of FBI agent in Orlando shooting
ORLANDO, Florida (Reuters) – A Muslim civil rights group is demanding an investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice and state officials into what it calls the “checkered history” of the FBI agent recently cleared in the fatal 2013 shooting of Ibra…
Boy, 14, shot in leg near California high school
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – A 14-year-old boy was shot in the leg and seriously wounded near a California high school on Wednesday, prompting authorities to place the campus on lockdown for about two hours, police said.
