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VALHALLA, N.Y. (AP) — Authorities say railroad crossing gates came down on top of an SUV before it was struck by a commuter train north of New York City this evening. The driver of the vehicle and five people on the train were killed. At least another 12 people were injured. Authorities say the driver of the Jeep Cherokee had gotten out of her vehicle after the crossing gates had come down. But she got back in, drove forward and was struck by the Metro-North Railroad train. The SUV and the front of the train caught fire.
AMMAN, Jordan (AP) — Jordan has executed two prisoners — one of them an al-Qaida woman whom the Islamic State group had wanted freed. The executions come following the gruesome video believed to be released by the militants, which purportedly shows a captured Jordanian military pilot in a cage, being burned alive. Jordan had vowed a swift and lethal response following the pilot's killing.
ATLANTA (AP) — A man accused of killing his wife and four other people has been brought back to Georgia to face murder charges after his arrest in Mississippi. Authorities say Thomas J. Lee waived extradition and deputies traveled to Mississippi today to pick him up. Lee was apprehended yesterday at a bus station in Tupelo, Mississippi, after telling a pastor he was having car trouble and needed to get to Alabama. Lee allegedly killed his wife, three of her family members and a friend.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Only three House Republicans have voted against repealing President Barack Obama's health care law — Representatives Bob Dold of Illinois, John Katko of New York and Bruce Poliquin of Maine. The GOP-controlled House voted 239-186 today to scrap the government's health care program, but also voted to instruct key committees to begin work on a replacement that the GOP promised in the 2010 political campaign. Democrat Nancy Pelosi says Republicans are "baying at the moon, something that is not going to work."
CHICAGO (AP) — A new study says patients who've had surgery end up back in the hospital most often because of incision infections that don't show up until after they're sent home. The study by researchers at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine, says among six common surgeries, the lowest readmission rate was just under 4 percent for hysterectomy patients. The highest rate — almost 15 percent — was for artery disease patients who had surgery to reroute blood flow in the legs.
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