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Oregon mom accused of throwing autistic son off bridge held on $1 million bail

By Courtney Sherwood PORTLAND Ore. (Reuters) – An Oregon mother accused of killing her 6-year-old autistic son by throwing him from a bridge is being held on $1 million bail, a Lincoln County District Court clerk said on Wednesday. Jillian McCabe, 34, was arrested on Monday night after calling emergency 911 to report she had thrown her son, London, from the 246-foot-high Yaquina Bay Bridge in the coastal Oregon town of Newport, about 115 miles southwest of Portland. London McCabe's body was found four hours later after an extensive search by law enforcement and the U.S. Coast Guard. …

AstraZeneca strengthens cancer business with new deals

LONDON (Reuters) – AstraZeneca moved to strengthen its core oncology business on Tuesday with three deals designed to expand the British drugmaker's reach in treating tumors. The collaborations include an agreement to buy Definiens, a private company that has developed a way of unlocking information from cancer tissue samples, for an initial $150 million, and two alliances to test novel drug combinations. Definiens, whose imaging and data analysis technology was developed by Gerd Binnig, the 1986 Nobel Laureate in physics, will be folded into AstraZeneca's biotech arm MedImmune. …

Fresh Food Markets in Virginia

If you’re in the market for a new home, there are countless things you may be looking for. However, aside from the …

Hooray for herbs and spices

Guest post is provided by Coleanse Diet. Herbs and spices have been used for many centuries to get protection against many diseases …