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A Chicago-area hospital says it regrets sending a bill to the family of a baby boy who died about seven weeks after attackers cut him from his mother's womb. The family's lawyer says Advocate Christ Medical Center in suburban Oak Lawn has sent some $300,000 in bills for Yovanny Lopez's care. Attorney Frank Avila says some bills list Yovanny under the name of 46-year-old Clarisa Figueroa, who is accused of killing the boy and his mother and claiming him as her child.

Fri, 19 Jul 2019 11:31:03 -0400

The New Hampshire Supreme Court upheld a state committee's rejection of a proposal to bring a hydropower transmission line from Canada to markets in southern New England, possibly dealing a fatal blow Friday to a plan that has raised concerns among communities and environmentalists that it would harm the region's tourism industry and hurt property values. The court rejected the argument of the utility behind the Northern Pass project that the Site Evaluation Committee never considered all the evidence, as required by law, or the possible ways the company could mitigate opponents' concerns. The energy company, Eversource, wanted the court to remand the case back to the committee for reconsideration following its decision last year to reject the application.

Fri, 19 Jul 2019 11:30:55 -0400

A former Russian arms tycoon who had connections at the highest levels of the Kremlin is a major donor to Britain's ruling Conservative Party and counts himself a friend of the man expected to be the country's next prime minister. Alexander Temerko, who forged close ties with the Russian defence ministry and security services in the 1990s, has gifted over £1 million to the Conservatives over the past eight years. In a series of interviews detailed in a Reuters Special Report https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/britain-eu-johnson-russian, he spoke warmly about his "friend" Boris Johnson, the leading Brexit campaigner who is frontrunner to become Britain's prime minister in a party leadership contest next week.

Fri, 19 Jul 2019 11:29:25 -0400

Wall Street's main indexes inched higher on Friday after solid results from technology giant Microsoft added to an upbeat mood following hints from a top Federal Reserve official that a U.S. interest rate cut could be imminent. Microsoft Corp, the most valuable U.S. company, rose 1.7% as strength in its cloud business helped it beat estimates at the end of a week of mixed earnings. "Microsoft is a sign that not all companies are suffering from the downturn we're seeing in manufacturing or the pressure from interest rates that's affecting financials," said Jeff Kleintop, chief global investment strategist, at Charles Schwab in Boston.

Fri, 19 Jul 2019 11:26:05 -0400

The Nebraska Supreme Court has upheld the convictions and death sentence of a man who killed four people in Omaha shortly after leaving prison in 2013. Nikko Jenkins pleaded no contest in 2014 to killing four people in three random separate attacks. Among the arguments Jenkins' attorneys made is that the trial court abused its discretion in accepting Jenkins' no-contest pleas in a death penalty case.

Fri, 19 Jul 2019 11:23:41 -0400