The new miniature machine, used for the first time last year, saved the life of a newborn girl. About 1 to 2 percent of hospitalized infants have kidney problems that may require dialysis, which cleans toxins from the blood when the kidneys aren’t working.
The latest attraction at the races was the debut of the world’s biggest HD video screen — the “Big Board,” and its 750-speaker sound system, but after a horse fell and died, her trainer immediately blamed the sound system attached to Churchill’s vaunted new video board.
A wildfire burning in a scenic Arizona canyon is expected to nearly triple in size as crews scramble to get the upper hand in less rugged terrain.
When they pull up to a gas station these days, Detroit drivers are looking beyond the price per gallon at a far more threatening concern: carjackers.
A woman’s story of being drugged, kidnapped and forced to marry her alleged captor began to emerge when she went to police and accused the man of domestic violence. During that conversation, officers learned of her connection to a 2004 missing-persons case in Santa Ana, about 20 miles away.
The grisly deaths of two inmates — one who “baked to death” in his overheated cell, another who sexually mutilated himself while locked up alone for seven days — have raised new questions about the New York City jail system’s ability to deal with a burgeoning number of mentally ill people.
A police report shows Fox News weekend anchor Gregg Jarrett may have taken a drug that didn’t mix well with alcohol when he was arrested at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport.
A wind-whipped wildfire in a canyon near Flagstaff dramatically increased in size Wednesday as it sent up choking plumes of smoke, threatened homes and scuttled Memorial Day weekend plans in the popular hiking and camping area.
A woman who was 15 when she disappeared 10 years ago from her California home has contacted police and says she was held against her will for years.
Seemingly respectable members of the mainstream — a police officer, a paramedic, a rabbi, an airline pilot, an architect, a Boy Scout leader — were caught using the Internet to collect and trade child pornography, federal officials said Wednesday.
A grandmother arrived at a dilapidated home on a busy Southern California street to visit her daughter and three grandchildren, only to find the girls’ small, blood-covered bodies neatly arranged on a bed.
The New York City police say two students at a Brooklyn elementary school are accused of trying to poison their teacher.
House Democrats will participate in the special, Republican-led select committee investigating the deadly 2012 attack in Benghazi, Libya, despite serious concerns within the party that the inquiry is an election-year ploy to energize core GOP voters.
Seeking to head off a growing furor over veterans’ health care, President Barack Obama declared Wednesday that allegations of misconduct at VA hospitals are “dishonorable” and will be not be tolerated by his administration.
A tractor-trailer spilled a load of steel pipes onto a highway, triggering a bus crash Wednesday that killed four people and seriously injured several others on the main road linking Southern California and Arizona, authorities said.
