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DALLAS (AP) — The first Ebola patient diagnosed in the United States died Wednesday morning in a Dallas hospital Wednesday, a hospital spokesman said. Thomas Eric Duncan was pronounced dead at 7:51 a.m. at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas, where he was admitted Sept. 28 and has been kept in isolation, according to spokesman Wendell […]
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The first American flown back to the U.S. for treatment of Ebola this summer has donated blood to the most recent one to return from West Africa with the disease. The Nebraska Medical Center said Wednesday that it called Dr. Kent Brantly on Tuesday to tell him his blood type matches […]
Working at Saks Fifth Avenue can be a great job. You get to meet all kinds of people from all walks of life and let’s not forget that employee discount. But for four Saks employees and their outside accomplice, the New York Saks Fifth Avenue flagship store was instead a temptation they couldn’t ignore. Four […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Drug Enforcement Administration set up a fake Facebook account using photographs and other personal information it took from the cellphone of a New York woman arrested in a cocaine case in hopes of tricking her friends and associates into revealing incriminating drug secrets. The Justice Department initially defended the practice in […]
DALLAS (AP) — Leaders are urging calm, but Dallas is a city on edge as it approaches the first Ebola incubation deadline this week. Several residents of the neighborhood where the first U.S.-diagnosed case of Ebola was found told city officials they’d been sent home from work. Some community volunteers shunned a nearby after-school program. […]
Things got really racist, really fast outside of Busch Stadium in St. Louis on Monday as a group of St. Louis Cardinals fans clashed with Ferguson protesters calling for justice for 18-year-old Michael Brown, who was unarmed when he was shot and killed by Officer Darren Wilson in Ferguson, Missouri, Aug. 9. DeadSpin posted a […]
NEW YORK (AP) — President Barack Obama opened a weeklong fundraising spree for his party Tuesday, telling high-dollar donors in New York and Connecticut that Democrats have facts and history on their side. Yet there still were no signs that Obama planned to take that message directly to voters by appearing on the campaign trail […]
LAS VEGAS (AP) — A federal appeals court declared gay marriage legal in Idaho and Nevada on Tuesday, setting the stage for couples to marry in Las Vegas, the self-proclaimed wedding capital of the world. State after state has joined the national tide in seeing same-sex unions made legal, given a push by the U.S. […]
NEW YORK (AP) — The family of a man who died after being placed in a police chokehold has filed a notice of claim to sue New York City, the Police Department and six individual police officers for $75 million. Eric Garner’s family filed the notice — the first step toward suing over the 43-year-old […]
Two NYPD officers, Tyrane Isaac and David Afanador, are under investigation for beating and pistol-whipping an unarmed teenager in Brooklyn. Kahreem Tribble, 16, had…
Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was honored Monday at West Point with the U.S. Military Academy’s annual Thayer Award, given to a U.S. citizen for outstanding service in the national interest that illustrates the academy’s motto of “Duty, Honor, Country.” “For more than three decades and during some of America’s more trying times, she […]
BOSTON (AP) — School and law enforcement officials in New England say they are dealing with an unusually high number of bomb threats that have forced the cancellation of classes just weeks into the new academic year. Nearly a dozen schools and colleges in Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Connecticut have received the threats, forcing evacuations […]
