LONDON (AP) — A neonatal nurse in a British hospital was found guilty Friday of murdering seven babies and trying to kill six others during a yearlong campaign of deception when she preyed on the vulnerabilities of premature and sick newborns as well as their anxious parents.
Following 22 days of deliberation, the jury at Manchester Crown Court convicted 33-year-old Lucy Letby of killing the babies in the neonatal unit at the Countess of Chester...
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — State labor officials have temporarily shut down more than two dozen Boston Market restaurants in New Jersey after finding multiple violations of workers' rights, including more than $600,000 in back wages owed to 314 employees.
A stop-work order was issued Tuesday by the Department of Labor against 27 restaurants across New Jersey. The state also imposed nearly $2.6 million in penalties against the firm.
The Associated Press sent an email seeking comment...
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — A man convicted of killing two women he met at beach bars in the Florida Panhandle in 1996 is set to be executed under a death warrant signed Thursday by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis.
Michael Duane Zack III's lethal injection is scheduled for Oct. 3 at 6 p.m. It's the sixth execution scheduled in Florida this year after a break dating back to 2019.
The scheduled execution of Zack, 54, would be...
With more than $2 trillion a year of medical claims paid electronically, processing fees likely add up to billions of dollars that could be spent on care but instead are going to insurers and middlemen. Congress had intended the opposite to happen.
CBS NEWS – Soaring heat and fine particulate matter in the air may double your risk of heart attack death, according to a new study.
For the study, published in the American Heart Association's journal Circulation on Monday, researchers analyzed more than 200,000 heart attack deaths between 2015 and 2020 in a Chinese province that experiences four distinct seasons and a range of temperatures and pollution levels.
The findings?
Days of extreme heat, extreme cold or high...
(Mark Pellin, Headline USA) Leftist activists erupted into profane hysterics after the Republican-led N.C. General Assembly successfully overrode a slew of vetoes Wednesday, sending a clear message to the state’s Democrat governor about the GOP’s resolve to champion conservative principles headed into the 2024 elections.
Republican supermajorities in the House and Senate overrode Gov. Roy Cooper’s vetoes in wins that supporters said will save children from dangerous gender-altering surgeries, root out radical LGBT indoctrination from public schools and provide safe and level playing...
KFF HEALTH NEWS – North Carolina hospitals — led by the state’s largest public medical system — have sued thousands of their patients since 2017, according to a new analysis that sheds additional light on the aggressive tactics U.S. hospitals routinely use to collect from people who fall behind on their bills.
The report, produced by the state treasurer and Duke University School of Law researchers, and related patient interviews offer harrowing accounts of people...
HOUSTON — On the surface, it might seem like the sport of CrossFit is all about numbers.
“My clean and jerk is 245, my clean’s 260, my deadlift’s about 400," elite CrossFit athlete Kelly Baker said when she was asked about some of her personal marks in common CrossFit lifts.
Baker trains at CrossFit Greater Heights and is one of only 40 women in the world to qualify as an Individual for the 2023 CrossFit Games...
Police_Activity, YouTube, West Hartford, Connecticut — On August 8, 2023 at approximately 5:00 p.m., West Hartford police were attempting to stop a stolen Hyundai Elantra that was traveling east on New Britain Avenue.
At the intersection of New Britain Avenue and South Street, the Hyundai struck a silver BMW and then a blue Honda Pilot.
After the collision with the Honda Pilot, the Hyundai became disabled. Two occupants of the vehicle, Lyle Solsbury, and Mike Alexander-Garcia,...
CNN — The New Jersey Supreme Court ruled in favor of a Catholic school that terminated a teacher for having premarital sex, according to court documents.
Victoria Crisitello began as a caregiver at St. Theresa School in Kenilworth in 2011, and in 2014, the school’s principal, Sister Theresa Lee, approached Crisitello about teaching art full-time, court documents say.
Crisitello, who was unmarried, told the principal she was pregnant during that meeting, according to the documents.
Crisitello alleged...
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas wants Planned Parenthood to give back millions of dollars in Medicaid reimbursements — and pay far more in fines on top of that — in a lawsuit that appears to be the first of its kind brought by a state against the largest abortion provider in the U.S.
A hearing was set for Tuesday in front of U.S. District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk, who earlier this year put access to the...
Newser – There's plenty of reason to think hot weather takes a psychological toll as well as a physical one.
Researchers have found suicides increase when it's hot, as does violent crime, trips to the emergency room, hospitalizations for mental problems, and deaths overall, the New York Times reports.
But the reasons aren't always clear, and one expert said the effects have only been widely acknowledged for five years or so. As prolonged heat waves become...