A new regulation allows employers to establish two classes of retirees, with more comprehensive benefits for those under 65 and more limited benefits ? or none at all ? for those older.
Every new police officer in New York City will be sent onto the streets of some of the city?s toughest neighborhoods as part of a broad anticrime operation, the city announced.
AP - Six people, likely three generations of a family, were found dead Wednesday at a rural property east of Seattle, and a law enforcement official said police arrested the property owner's daughter and her boyfriend.
AP - The sole survivor of a plane crash was reunited with her family Wednesday after rescue workers trekked for five hours to carry the 12-year-old American girl out of a remote mountain area, then airlifted her to a hospital.
AP - The big cat exhibit at the San Francisco Zoo was cordoned off as a crime scene Wednesday as investigators tried to determine whether a Siberian tiger that killed a visitor escaped from its high-walled pen on its own or got help from someone, inadvertent or otherwise.
The mother of a 17-year-old boy killed by a tiger at the San Francisco Zoo said she will never be able to celebrate Christmas again. "Our Christmas is with him," she said. "No more Christmas." Police said the teen was killed just outside the tiger's enclosure. Two others were injured about 300 yards away by a cafe.
Police have arrested a man and a woman in connection with 6 Christmas Eve deaths in rural Washington state. The dead are believed to be three generations of the same family. The victims were a man and a woman in their 50s, another man and woman in their 30s and two children: a 6-year-old girl and a 3-year-old boy.