Each year, federal inspectors find illegal levels of antibiotics in hundreds of older dairy cows bound for the slaughterhouse. Concerned that those antibiotics might also be contaminating the milk Americans drink, the Food and Drug Administration intended to begin tests this month on the milk from farms that had repeatedly sold cows tainted by drug residue.
Verizon Communications reported fourth-quarter results on Tuesday that fell slightly below Wall Street's expectations, as it continued to shift its focus to its wireless business, which had strong subscriber growth, from landlines.
CLINTON TWP. - Five young men have been indicted by a Hunterdon County grand jury on several charges related to the death of a 20-year-old Atlantic County man incarcerated at the Mountainview Youth Correctional Facility here.
Many joggers don earbuds and listen to music to distract themselves from the rigors of running. But might the Black Eyed Peas or Rihanna distract them so much that they jog into traffic?
TUNIS - The interim government in Tunisia has issued an international arrest warrant for the overthrown president, Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali, and members of his family for financial offenses, the justice minister said Wednesday, as protesters continued their call to rid the current government of cabinet members connected to Mr. Ben Ali.
Nintendo's new portable 3-D gaming system is in a "category of one," said Reggie Fils-Aime, president and chief operating officer of the company's American operation, at an event in New York on Wednesday in which he laid out the details of the product's introduction. But he acknowledged that even the most novel of gaming devices is now pitted against a range of competitors extending far beyond the traditional gaming world. He said that Nintendo saw the device as more than a hand-held gaming console, and stressed the importance of the device's ability to display 3-D video without the need for glasses, and its ability to function as a 3-D camera.
HOUSTON - It is surely too soon to call the Knicks distracted, hopeful or in any way emotionally invested in the concept of Carmelo Anthony. All they knew Wednesday, as they reached the midpoint of a transformational season, is that another transformation could be coming.
TUCSON - Representative Gabrielle Giffords, who survived a gunshot through her head on Jan. 8, is likely to leave a hospital here on Friday and move to the TIRR Memorial Hermann rehabilitation hospital in Houston to continue her recovery, a spokesman for Ms. Giffords said Wednesday.
BAGHDAD - For the second time in two days, Iraqi security forces came under attack by a suicide bomber when an ambulance packed with explosives blew up outside a police headquarters on Wednesday in Diyala Province, north of Baghdad.
FLEMINGTON - Although watering your lawn might be the last thing on your mind this week, the effort to ensure plenty of clean water continues week in and week out, according to Councilman John Gorman, who is the public works commissioner.
LANDOVER, Md. - With heads hung low and some players speaking in barely a whisper, the Giants walked into their locker room at FedEx Field after beating the Washington Redskins on Sunday, acting nothing like a team that had just won its 10th game of the season.
HONOLULU - President Obama took time out of his Hawaiian vacation on Sunday to sign into law one of the surprise accomplishments of the lame-duck Congress: a measure covering the cost of medical care for rescue workers and others sickened by toxic fumes and dust after the 2001 terrorist attack on the World Trade Center.
KASHIWA, Japan - Maria Fransiska, a young, hard-working nurse from Indonesia, is just the kind of worker Japan would seem to need to replenish its aging work force.
Last year was supposed to be the year manufacturers would wow consumers with offerings of all sorts of tablet computers. Steven A. Ballmer, Microsoft's chief executive, took the stage in January at the International Consumer Electronics Show, the industry's premier trade show, and displayed three devices that he said would be on sale in the months ahead. Dozens of smaller companies laid out their own tablet plans at the show.
A Union Township woman was injured today after she lost control of her car and crashed on Route 78 west in Clinton Township early this morning, authorities said.
The release felt solid - the way it had all game - whether it was a silky jumper or violent dunk. This time, Amar'e Stoudemire stepped behind the 3-point arc, outside his normal range. The ball left his right hand and settled into the net, igniting the loudest roar Madison Square Garden had heard in years, the apparent game-winner at the buzzer topping Paul Pierce's apparent game-winner with 0.4 of a second left.
This week, Steve Pearlstein, a columnist for The Washington Post, locked horns with Google over the thorny subject of the search giant's dominance and its quest to spread into new corners of the Web by buying other companies.
TEHRAN - A solemn Shiite religious mourning ceremony near a mosque in southeastern Iran was shattered by a double suicide bombing on Wednesday, leaving at least 39 people dead and many more wounded.
Travis S on 26 Jan 11Each year, federal inspectors find illegal levels of antibiotics in hundreds of older dairy cows bound for the slaughterhouse. Concerned that those antibiotics might also be contaminating the milk Americans drink, the Food and Drug Administration intended to begin tests this month on the milk from farms that had repeatedly sold cows tainted by drug residue.
