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(NEW YORK) -- The 9/11 health program that monitors and treats thousands of people exposed to toxic dust during the 2001 terrorist attack is under threat — again.A wave of staffing cuts and agency turmoil has thrown the World Trade Center Health Program into crisis, disrupting a system that has provided life-saving care to tens of thousands of people for more than two decades.Experts warn that cancer diagnoses could be delayed, […]

(PITTSBURGH) -- Four people have died in Pennsylvania as severe storms hammered much of the U.S. on Tuesday night.A long-lived destructive thunderstorm wind event, known as a derecho, traveled more than 500 miles from eastern Indiana through central Pennsylvania on Tuesday afternoon. Wind gusts reached 80 mph as the more than 60-mile-wide storm complex knocked down trees and power lines along its destructive path.In Franklin Township in eastern Pennsylvania, high […]

(SYRACUSE, N.Y.) -- The district attorney in Syracuse, New York, is giving a group of high school students 48 hours to turn themselves in for an alleged hazing incident that he describes as a "criminal matter.""I cannot really adequately express to this community the level of stupidity and lack of judgement involved in this case," Onondaga County District Attorney Bill Fitzpatrick said during a press conference on Tuesday.Fitzpatrick said he […]

(NEWARK, Del.) -- A University of Delaware student was killed and several other people were injured when a U-Haul truck driver fled from police and collided with people near campus, officials said.On Tuesday afternoon, officers in a parking lot spotted a U-Haul truck that had been reported Monday "as an unauthorized use vehicle" after it was rented but was not returned when due last month, Newark police said.As officers moved […]