Potchefstroom police are investigating cases of murder and culpable homicide after the bodies of a man and his wife were found dead in separate locations this week.Police suspect that the husband killed himself by jumping in front of an oncoming truck. They also believe that his wife was strangled.According to police spokesperson Colonel Adéle Myburgh,…
Italy’s first coronavirus patient traveled from Wuhan, China, to Italy in late January and was admitted to the hospital with coronavirus symptoms days later. A recently published report shows that she had detectable traces of the virus in her eyes days after it had cleared from her nose.The report demonstrates that the novel coronavirus can…
By Jonathan O’Callaghan ‘Oumuamua, the first interstellar object found in our solar system, may not be the only oneJPL/NASA/ESA/STScI Two researchers say they have found evidence for 19 objects orbiting our sun that originated around another star, suggesting interstellar objects in our solar system may be more common than thought. Fathi Namouni at the Côte…
Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here.Three deaths were reported over the weekend at a hotel in New York City's Times Square that was being used as quarantine quarters for recovering coronavirus hospital patients.The NYPD reported that a 42-year-old man and a 70-year-old man were found dead…
CHERRY HILL, New Jersey (WPVI) -- A death investigation is underway in Camden County, New Jersey after a body was found inside a charred vehicle on Thursday night.The discovery was made at an auto dealership off Rt. 70 at 9:20 p.m. in Cherry Hill.According to the Camden County Prosecutor's Office, a person was found dead…
For more than thirty years I have represented the families on the other end of a foodborne outbreak — the parents of children on dialysis with hemolytic uremic syndrome, the survivors of a contaminated hamburger or a bag of spinach, the people left planning funerals. I built a career holding companies accountable when the food
More people are sick in a multi-country Salmonella outbreak in Europe mainly affecting children and young adults. A total of 83 confirmed cases had symptom onset between December 2025 and mid-May 2026. Another 24 cases identified in 2026 have not yet been sequenced and may be part of the outbreak. At least 20 people have
For over thirty years, I have been beating the same drum, and the last few days were no exception (some argue a bit too loudly and self-serving). I have been posting about public health officials — and the FDA — sending out outbreak documents with the names of companies, growers, processors, and retailers blacked out