David Sweat, 35, and Richard Matt, 49, escaped from the Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora, N.Y., on June 6 after they cut through their cell walls, carved a hole in a steam pipe and made their way to a manhole cover outside the grounds. After an extensive manhunt, Matt was shot and killed by a federal agent on June 26 about 27 miles (43 km) away from the prison. Sweat
State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby, who is prosecuting six police officers in the death of Freddie Gray, had wanted a Circuit Court hearing to argue for a protective order barring release of evidence. The death of Gray, a 25-year-old black man, from a spinal injury suffered in police custody triggered protests and rioting. Mosby said she was concerned that defense lawyers would leak only evidence that supported their clients’ defense, jeopardizing
Sandra Bland, 28, was found dead on July 13, three days after she was arrested for assaulting an officer during a traffic stop in Waller County, about 50 miles (80 km) west of Houston, authorities have said. The Waller County Sheriff’s Office said Bland took her own life and the death was ruled a suicide by the Harris County Medical Examiner’s Office. At a news conference on Monday, Waller County
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California regulators on Monday proposed a first-of-its-kind, $1.5 million fine for a group of Central Valley farmers accused of illegally taking water during the drought.
Health-obsessed former Soviet Turkmenistan is the country with the world’s lowest proportion of smokers, World Health Organisation chief Margaret Chan said during a visit to the isolated nation on Tuesday. Chan said that just 8 percent of the population smoked, according to WHO figures. “Recently a WHO overview showed that in Turkmenistan only 8 percent of the population smokes,” Chan told the country’s authoritarian President Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov, who is a
Donations to Greek children’s charities have dived since the government imposed drastic curbs on bank withdrawals, putting some volunteer-run services at risk just when they are needed most. “The Smile of the Child” – a charity which receives almost no state funding – said much of its income had been almost wiped out since the government introduced capital controls just over three weeks ago to avert a run on the
WASHINGTON (AP) — New research shows older women with mild memory impairment worsened about twice as fast as men.
By Andrew Chung NEW YORK (Reuters) – Novartis AG unit Sandoz must wait until Sept. 2 to sell Zarxio, the first biosimilar drug to be approved in the United States and a copycat version of Amgen Inc’s $1.2 billion-a-year anti-infection drug Neupogen, a U.S. appeals court said on Tuesday. The ruling stemmed from a lawsuit that Amgen filed last October in federal court in San Francisco in which it accused
By Lisa Rapaport (Reuters Health) – Kids with psychiatric problems may be more likely to have health, legal, financial and social difficulties as adults even when their mental health issues don’t persist beyond childhood, a study suggests. Researchers tracked 1,420 kids between ages nine and 16, assessing them on up to six occasions for common psychiatric diagnoses as well as mental health problems that didn’t rise to the level of
