A dangerous amoeba that thrives in warm, freshwater bodies in the heat of summer caused the recent death of a 16-year-old Central Florida girl, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control confirmed on Monday.
Zachery Tims may have died because of a suspected drug overdose, a police source told the New York Daily News.
Tims, 42, was found dead at the W Hotel in Times Square, New York City, on Friday. A housekeeper found him unresponsive on the floor of the hotel room and he was pronounced dead at the scene, CNN reported. Grace Brugess, spokeswoman for the New York Medical Examiner's Office, told CNN that more tests will be needed to determine a cause of death and that could take a few weeks.
For weeks during the rancorous debate over the debt ceiling limit, Americans were treated to the widely televised spectacle of their lawmakers drubbing each other in a bruising partisan jousting match.
Tims found dead and alone in his Times Square hotel room.
More than 60,000 pounds of ground beef supplied by National Beef have been recalled after officials at the Ohio Department of Agriculture discovered the batch was contaminated with E. coli.
Marine wanted to donate his organs to members of the military
A Florida teenager who died over the weekend from a suspected amoeba infection became an organ donor at age 14, according to her mother.
Defense lawyers argue that Anthony served probation while in jail.
Two-time Cy Young winner Tim Lincecum was nearly unhittable as he led the San Francisco Giants to a 3-0 win over the Florida Marlins at Sun Life Stadium on Saturday.
It was Michele Bachmann's big moment in the political spotlight and Rick Perry stomped all over it.
The current conflagration has the potential to escalate into the worst civil disorder in living memory,
A Florida Judge has ordered Casey Anthony to return to Orlando within two weeks in order to serve a year's probation for check fraud on Friday.
A Florida judge has ordered Casey Anthony back to the state by Aug. 26 to serve a probation period for the 2010 check fraud conviction. Judge Belvin Perry rejected claims by Anthony's lawyers that the she already served her probation while in jail waiting for the murder trial for allegedly killing her 2-year-old Caylee in 2008.
A Florida judge on Friday ordered Casey Anthony, the young mother acquitted of murdering her toddler, to report for probation by August 26 on a 2010 check fraud conviction.
President Barack Obama's signature healthcare law suffered a setback on Friday when an appeals court ruled that it was unconstitutional to require all Americans to buy insurance or face a penalty.
Casey Anthony was order to get out of hiding and return to Florida to report for probation. Anthony must go back to Florida by Aug. 26 in order to serve her probation on a 2010 check fraud conviction.
Judge orders her to report by Aug. 26.
Casey Anthony, the young mother accused and subsequently acquitted of murdering her two-year-old daughter using duct tape and chloroform, must serve a one-year probation for check-fraud and will report to the Department of Corrections no later than Aug. 26, Chief Judge Belvin Perry ruled Friday. Perry said that Anthony's address will not be released due to safety concerns.
Warrant frontman Jani Lane, 47, was found dead in a motel room in Woodland Hills, Calif. on Thursday of unknown causes.
The first people-to-people tour left Miami for Cuba on Thursday following the United States softened embargo on travel to Cuba.
Florida charges are still pending for the Dougherty Gang, three siblings from that state, for allegedly shooting at a police officer north of Tampa, in an incident that triggered a national manhunt that ended in their arrest in Colorado this week.
