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RIALTO, Calif. – A Metrolink commuter train and a freight train collided Thursday, causing a handful of minor injuries, officials said. The accident came nine weeks after the deadliest crash in Metrolink history. The Sept. 12 head-on, high-speed crash between a Metrolink train and a Union Pacific freight train in …

French researchers said they have discovered a drug that “tricks the body into burning off fat,” regardless of the body’s diet, BBC News reported. A team at the University of Louis Pasteur successfully tested the drug, called SRT1720, on mice, according to a report in this month’s journal Cell Metabolism. …

An 18-year-old British woman is set to make medical history as Britain’s youngest mother to Siamese twins. The teenager is due to give birth in two weeks. A team of doctors is on standby to ensure both babies survive. Surgeons are also planning to separate the twins in a complex …

TARPON SPRINGS, Fla. – Police in Florida are affirming that the so-called “D.C. Madam” committed suicide, as they close their investigation of the case. The Tarpon Springs Police Department on Thursday released a 48-page investigative report and 400 crime scene photographs, which they hope will put an end to the …

A Huffington Post writer stabbed her former lover more than 200 times with a screwdriver and then tried to conceal the slaying, PalmBeachPost.com reported. After committing the gruesome crime, Carol Anne Berger, an election correspondent for the Huffington Post, reported her former flame missing, then fatally shot herself a day …

CHICAGO – Americans with diabetes nearly doubled their spending on drugs for the disease in just six years, with the bill last year climbing to an eye-popping $12.5 billion. Newer, more costly drugs are driving the increase, said researchers, despite a lack of strong evidence for the new drugs’ greater …

EMMAUS, Pa – Agents raided a kennel and discovered hundreds of animals crowded together in foul-smelling conditions and dozens of animal corpses in a freezer, authorities said. Authorities removed 56 ailing dogs and cats for immediate medical attention after Wednesday’s raid at the Almost Heaven Kennel, said Elaine Skypala, program …

ADRIAN, Mich. – A 16-year-old Michigan girl pleaded guilty Friday to second-degree murder for poisoning her grandmother with morphine. Kristina Adkins entered the plea in a packed courtroom in the southeastern Michigan town of Adrian. She was only 13 in 2006, when 53-year-old Virginia Bentley was poisoned. The girl’s attorney, …

BOSTON – They fluttered in and rocketed out: Three more homers sent sailing over the Green Monster to help the Tampa Bay Rays blow out Boston for the second straight game and move within one win of their first AL pennant. Evan Longoria hit his rookie-record fifth home run of …

WASHINGTON – Outspoken billionaire investor George Soros on Sunday criticized U.S. and European officials for taking too long to effectively address the financial crisis. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson was “very slow” to react because his “market fundamentalist beliefs” made him reluctant to take the necessary steps to respond to the …