NEW YORK—Service alerts for New York City’s subway, commuter trains and buses were back on Twitter on Thursday, a week after transit officials balked at paying to provide the information. The Metropolitan Transportation Authority lost access last week to Twitter’s application programming interface to send out automated alerts about service changes and emergencies. The MTA […]
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) warned doctors in an update on Thursday that they should be aware of growing outbreaks of the highly fatal Marburg virus in Africa and will start communicating with travelers to the United States to watch for symptoms. Like Ebola, Marburg virus disease (MVD) is a a rare but severe […]
MEXICO CITY—The U.S. State Department issued a travel alert Wednesday for Americans planning to spend Spring break in Mexico. The alert warns travelers to “exercise increased caution” especially after dark at Caribbean beach resorts like Cancun, Playa del Carmen, and Tulum, which have been plagued by drug gang violence in the past. “U.S. citizens should […]
COLUMBUS, Ohio—One of the twin Ohio boys who became the center of a statewide AMBER Alert that garnered nationwide attention last month has died, authorities said. Columbus police said officers were sent to a home shortly before 11 p.m. Saturday on a report of a baby not breathing. Medics transported the baby, who was about […]
MITROVICA, Kosovo—Serbia on Monday placed its security troops on the border with Kosovo on “the full state of combat readiness,” and on Tuesday erected more roadblocks in northern Kosovo and defied international demands to remove those placed earlier. The new barriers, made of heavily loaded trucks, were put up overnight in Mitrovica, a northern Kosovo […]
The FBI on Monday issued a “national public safety alert” due to an increase in extortion scams aimed at thousands of children and teenagers, warning about the possibility that more Americans could be targeted over the Christmas holiday season. In a news release, the bureau said that more than 3,000 minor victims were targeted in […]
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo.—The Missouri State Highway Patrol alert sent cellphones blaring statewide: Authorities in Gotham City, Missouri, were searching for a purple and green 1978 Dodge 3700GT. But there is no Gotham City, Missouri, and the car referenced was the one used by the Joker in the 1989 “Batman” movie. Soon after the Tuesday evening […]
