A Calhoun, Ga., man was arrested for using spray paint and makers to deface private and commercial buildings throughout the downtown area, according to Calhoun police.
Two of Tennessee’s Republican federal officeholders are stepping into the 4th Congressional District race to openly back Republican challenger Scott DesJarlais’s bid against incumbent U.S. Rep. Lincoln Davis.
Editors of a top medical journal call Meridia “another flawed diet pill” and question whether it should stay on the market as a study shows it raises the risk of heart attack and stroke in people with heart problems.
Police found such a small amount of crack cocaine in James V. Taylor’s car that investigators described it as unweighable. It was enough for a 15-year prison sentence in Missouri, where the courts make an enormous distinction between crack and powder cocaine.
The number of illegal immigrants in the U.S. has dropped for the first time in 20 years as substantially fewer undocumented workers from Mexico, Latin America and elsewhere are crossing the border in search of jobs, an independent research group says.
Scientists are reporting a major advance in diagnosing tuberculosis: A new test can reveal in less than two hours, with very high accuracy, whether someone has the disease and if it’s resistant to the main drug for treating it.