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Actress Angelina Jolie’s revelation this week that she’d had both breasts removed to lower her elevated risk of cancer came as a bombshell to many -- but not to three sisters from Berkeley Heights, N.J.The women -- Cathy Balsamo, Cindy Lepore and Patti Broccoli -- have spent most of the past year grappling with the very dilemma that Jolie faced: What to do when a genetic mutation means you’ve got ...
Sixty people were injured, five of them critically, and rail traffic from New York to Boston was shut down after a Metro-North commuter train derailed and plowed into a second train Friday in Fairfield, Conn., Gov. Dan Malloy said.An eastbound train derailed at 6:10 p.m. ET and struck a westbound train between the Fairfield and Bridgeport stations. "We have no reason to think it was anything other...
There's been a groundswell of 17-year cicadas in Virginia and other southern states, as revealed by a fresh wave of photos and eyewitness reports. In some areas, the outbreak has been accompanied by the insects' loud chorus call. And that's music to the ears of University of Connecticut entomologist John Cooley."That's where I'm heading," Cooley told NBC News. The weather is still too cool in New ...
Two Metro-North commuter trains collided Friday in Fairfield, Conn., authorities said, injuring 49 people, four of them seriously, and halting rail traffic from New York to Boston.An eastbound train derailed at 6:10 p.m. ET and struck a westbound train between the Fairfield and Bridgeport stations, Metropolitan Transportation Authority officials told NBC News.NBC Connecticut: 49 injured in Metro-N...
Two Metro-North trains collided Friday in Fairfield, Conn., authorities said, injuring 22 people, four of them seriously, and halting all rail traffic between New York and Boston.An eastbound train derailed at 6:10 p.m. ET and struck a westbound train between the Fairfield and Bridgeport stations, Metropolitan Transportation Authority officials told NBC News.NBC Connecticut: Commuter train crash i...
