Law & Society

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said it may place restrictions on menthol cigarettes following a scientific review showing that those products are likely to be more addictive than regular cigarettes.

One person was killed and four others seriously injured when an S.V.V. being the wrong way on Manhattan's Tappan Zee Bridge crashed head-on into another vehicle, which set off a pile up at about 9 p.m. on Tuesday evening.

Indian police have arrested Meena Kumari, a head teacher of a school in the eastern Bihar state of India where 23 children died after eating food contaminated with insecticide, BBC News reported. She handed herself in on Wednesday. Police now believe she can help explain how the deadly insecticide monocrotophos ended up in the free school lunch. All total, 47 primary school children have gotten sick after consuming the meal of rice and soybeans