SUMMERVILLE, S.C. (AP) — A crowd has gathered in Summerville, South Carolina for the funeral of Walter Scott — the black driver who was fatally shot by a North Charleston police officer after fleeing a traffic stop.
By Elizabeth Barber BOSTON (Reuters) – Massachusetts officials on Friday released video footage showing the near-fatal shooting of a Boston police officer last month by a man who was subsequently shot dead by other officers. “It is in everyone’s best interest to share (this) information as soon as possible in order to tamp down speculation and rumors meant to inflame and not inform,” Suffolk District Attorney Daniel F. Conley said
By Steve Gorman LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – A Californian sheriff has suspended 10 officers involved in the videotaped beating of a suspect who appeared to have surrendered and was lying on the ground after making a failed getaway attempt on horseback. John McMahon, sheriff of San Bernardino County, said at a news conference on Friday he was “disturbed and troubled” by what he saw in the footage, shot from a
WASHINGTON (AP) — Large food recalls have forced consumers to throw away hummus and ice cream that may be contaminated with the same potentially deadly bacteria — listeria.
By Stephanie Nebehay GENEVA (Reuters) – West Africa’s Ebola epidemic still poses a threat to other countries but the risk of it spreading internationally appears to be diminishing as the areas affected shrink, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday. The U.N. agency declared in August 2014 that the world’s worst Ebola outbreak, which began in December 2013, represented a “public health emergency of international concern” that forced health
By Sujoy Dhar KOLKATA, India (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – The father, uncle and brother of a 16-year-old girl in eastern India have been arrested accused of raping her repeatedly over a period of two years, police said on Saturday. The girl told a school teacher in Dhupguri town in West Bengal state on Thursday after being too scared to speak out previously. She alleged that her uncle also raped her
It’s hard to grapple with the fact that the food you find at grocery stores is not always safe for consumption. Food scandals happen all over the world. And much more frequently and with much larger consequences than most of us realize. In 2008, contaminated infant formula affected 300,000 babies and young children. Six of them died. In…
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — More than 100 people in southeastern Indiana have tested positive for HIV in an outbreak linked to the sharing of intravenous needles, and officials said Friday they’re trying to combat unfounded fears among drug users that they could be arrested if they take part in a needle-exchange program created to stem the spread of the virus.
Women aren’t the only ones with between-the-sheets worries.
“I would do everything I could to avoid gym class because it made me feel so uncomfortable, but when I started trying to lose weight I would use gym class as an opportunity to burn calories.”