How did the meningitis outbreak now spreading across the U.S. start?
The outbreak of fungal meningitis, which infected more than 100 people and killed eight as of Monday, was linked to a contaminated steroid solution manufactured by New England Compounding Center Inc. of Massachusetts. The company shipped 17,676 vials of the solution to 75 clinics in 23 states, which means there are potentially thousands of people who received a spinal injection of the pain-relieving solution.
When was the last Washington team to make the World Series?
The Washington Senators had long been the butt of jokes about their sad performance. (Washington, first in war, first in peace, last in the American League, the joke went.) But the Senators made its first appearance in the World Series in 1924 against the New York Giants, who were making their fourth consecutive showing. The Senators won the series in Game 7 after 12 innings, besting the Giants 4-3.
How could a U.S. Border Patrol agent be killed by friendly fire?
It happened last week when Agent Nicholas Ivie went to check on a sensor that had been triggered near Bisbee, Ariz., an area frequented by smugglers. Though Ivie didn’t know it, two other agents were approaching the same sensor from the other side. Thinking his colleagues were armed smugglers, Ivie opened fire and wounded one of the other agents before being shot and killed.
