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Defense Sec. Austin back in hospital ahead of busy travel week: Pentagon officials

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin is back at Walter Reed Hospital due to an “emergency bladder issue,” Pentagon officials said. Pentagon spokesman Maj. Gen. Patrick S. Rider confirmed that Austin was hospitalized at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center and that the deputy secretary of defense, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the White House, and Congress […]

Lloyd Austin Back In Hospital

Pentagon spokesman Maj. Gen. Pat Ryder said in a statement that Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin was taken back to the hospital Sunday afternoon, after the secretary’s secret hospitalization in January sparked a storm of criticism. Changes were made as a result. Austin’s security staff took him to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center at 2:20 […]

Maryland middle school students taken to hospital after bus overturns

Maryland State Police are investigating the cause of a crash Thursday afternoon in Columbia in which a bus carrying middle school students ran off the road and overturned, with multiple occupants being evaluated for injuries. Photos of the single-vehicle accident show the full-size school bus on the grass on the side of a two-lane road, […]

Georgia baby’s decapitation during hospital birth ruled a homicide

The death of an infant who was decapitated during birth at an Atlanta-area hospital has been ruled a homicide. The Clayton County Coroner’s Office announced Tuesday that newborn Treveon Taylor’s death was caused by “acts of another person” during a complicated birth on July 9. The mother, Jessica Ross, 20, experienced complications while giving birth […]

NYC suspect escapes Bellevue Hospital, seen walking using cane

The New York Police Department is searching for a man who escaped from police custody while at Bellevue Hospital early Saturday morning, authorities said. Christopher Miller, 23, of Manhattan, was being treated at a hospital around 3:50 a.m. when he left his room and fled through a side entrance near East 28th Street and FDR […]

New Hampshire lawmakers weigh half-dozen gun laws following hospital shooting

New Hampshire lawmakers heard arguments Friday in favor of various bills drafted in response to last year’s mass shooting at a psychiatric hospital. Mental health records, protective orders, and firearms carrying laws are among the main targets of various proposals. “Rather than pushing for yet another discriminatory gun confiscation bill, why aren’t we actually doing […]

Patient shoots security guard after discharge from Kansas City hospital

A patient was shot and injured at a Kansas City hospital Friday morning after disarming himself, authorities said. Tennessee police officer opens fire as man with missing girl tries to run over deputies, authorities say The patient had just been discharged from University Health Truman Medical Center. Phil DiMartino said in a news release. DiMartino […]