CA lab revisits safety steps after researcher dies

Lab workers at the San Francisco Veterans Affairs medical center will be urged to get vaccinations for the diseases they study as a precaution as investigators continue looking into a researcher's death after he handled...

Number of US newborns with drug withdrawal triples

Less than a month old, Savannah Dannelley scrunches her tiny face into a scowl as a nurse gently squirts a dose of methadone into her mouth.

Quincy Herald-Whig | Illinois & Missouri News, SportsStories set for Thursday's edition of The Herald-Whig

TEACHERS-PENSIONS: A group of local teachers picketed outside state Sen. John Sullivan's Quincy office Wednesday afternoon to urge the General Assembly to slow down its efforts to rush through pension-reform legislation.