BOSTON – The Boston Police Department wants to arm neighborhood patrol officers with high-powered military assault weapons, but the mayor doesn’t think it’s such a good idea. Boston Mayor Tom Menino said Friday he will not approve a police department plan to put semiautomatic M-16 rifles in the hands of …
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Scientists at the Mascoma Corporation — a Lebanon, N.H. company founded by two Dartmouth professors — have successfully demonstrated a new and more cost-effective way to produce biofuel from plant matter by reprogramming bacteria and yeast cells to digest the organic material, the company announced earlier this month. “Mascoma was …
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This is a rush transcript from “On the Record,” May 22, 2009. This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated. JAMIE COLBY, FOX NEWS GUEST HOST: Supermax — it’s where they keep the really bad boys, a federal prison in Florence, Colorado. It is home …
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This is a rush transcript from “On the Record,” May 7, 2009. This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated. GRETA VAN SUSTEREN, FOX NEWS HOST: Well, now, you get the inside story of what really goes on in Hollywood from a man who says …
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L’AQUILA, Italy – An Italian news agency says Premier Silvio Berlusconi wants to offer sea cruises in the Mediterranean to some survivors of last month’s earthquake in central Italy. ANSA news agency quoted Berlusconi as saying Friday that a series of holidays in the Adriatic Sea were being organized this …
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FORT MONROE, Va. – You don’t often hear a three-star general using the word “friend” as a verb. But for Lt. Gen. Benjamin Freakley and other Army brass, a new era has brought a new language — and new tools like online social networks Twitter and Facebook — for seeking …
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Low vitamin D levels in the body may be deadly, according to a new study hinting that adults with lower, versus higher, blood levels of vitamin D may be more likely to die from heart disease or stroke. Vitamin D is an essential vitamin mostly obtained from direct sunlight exposure, …
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WASHINGTON – In the chaos of an early morning assault on a remote U.S. outpost in eastern Afghanistan, Staff Sgt. Erich Phillips’ M4 carbine quit firing as militant forces surrounded the base. The machine gun he grabbed after tossing the rifle aside didn’t work either. When the battle in the …
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WASHINGTON – The two Northwest Airlines pilots who overshot their Minneapolis destination by 150 miles are grounded indefinitely unless the National Transportation Safety Board grants them a reprieve. The Federal Aviation Administration said Tuesday that it had revoked the licenses of the pilots of Northwest flight 188 — Timothy Cheney …
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LOS ANGELES – A Florida woman who told a television interviewer that Michael Jackson’s ex-wife was only interested in getting money from the singer’s family and wasn’t interested in gaining custody of her two children is being sued. In a filing last week, Deborah Rowe’s attorneys said the mother of …
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