Spike in U.S. measles cases shows disease still a threat: officials
ATLANTA (Reuters) – The number of reported cases of measles in the United States this year is nearly three times the annual average, federal health officials said on Thursday, highlighting the continued threat of the disease 50 years after development …
Billionaire candy heiress pleads guilty in fatal crash
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Billionaire candy heiress Jacqueline Badger Mars pleaded guilty on Thursday to misdemeanor reckless driving charges stemming from a fatal accident in Virginia.
Child killed in school bus accident in Idaho: state police
(Reuters) – A school bus carrying about 10 Idaho elementary school children collided with a dump truck west of Boise on Thursday, killing one student and injuring four more, a state police spokeswoman said.
Heavy ice, snow threaten wide swath of United States
AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) – Americans from Texas to New York were steeling on Thursday for an icy blast of winter storms expected to blanket roads and power lines with ice and threaten travel across a wide swath of the United States, forecasters said.
U.S. pregnancy rate slides to 12-year low, federal report finds
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The pregnancy rate among U.S. women fell to its lowest point in 12 years in 2009, continuing its slide from a peak in 1990, according to U.S. government data released on Thursday.
Russia launches criminal inquiry into U.S. child trafficking
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian federal investigators have launched a criminal probe into suspected child trafficking in the United States following a Reuters investigation which found that adopted children, some born in Russia, were being traded on the Int…
Florida man kills wife, son with crossbow in murder-suicide
(Reuters) – Using a crossbow and arrows, a Florida man shot his wife and teenage son dead in their Miami-area home and drove hundreds of miles north to Tallahassee and wounded his elder son. He then slit his own throat in a hotel room, police said.
JPMorgan warns 465,000 card users on data loss after cyber attack
NEW YORK/BOSTON (Reuters) – JPMorgan Chase & Co is warning some 465,000 holders of prepaid cash cards issued by the bank that their personal information may have been accessed by hackers who attacked its network in July.
Analysis: Two factors key to lawsuits over New York train crash
NEW YORK (Reuters) – For lawyers preparing to sue over Sunday’s deadly New York commuter rail accident, their success in court may depend largely on two factors: whether human error caused the derailment and if state or federal law governs railroad saf…
Major U.S. railways to offer health benefits to gay workers’ spouses
(Reuters) – The largest U.S. freight carriers will begin providing medical benefits to the spouses of gay union workers, a rail company coalition said on Wednesday, a day after two same-sex couples sued BNSF Railway for denying equal benefits.
