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Maine residents vote on taxes, medical marijuana, schools, transportation funding

Mainers vote on taxes, medical marijuana, schools

Harvard researcher made ill by tainted coffee doesn’t believe incident was an accident

Victim: Harvard coffee poisoning not an accident

Severed hand unearthed in Md. yard appears to be decades’ old medical school specimen

NORTH EAST, Md. — A severed human hand has been unearthed from the yard of a Maryland home, but police say this is no whodunit.

Conn. medical examiner says Yale grad student found in wall was asphyxiated

NEW HAVEN, Conn. — A Yale graduate student whose body was found hidden in a wall in her lab building was asphyxiated, the state’s chief medical examiner said Wednesday, hours after a “person of interest” was questioned and released.

Conn. official says New Haven police have ‘person of interest in Yale killing

NEW HAVEN, Conn. — Police have identified a “person of interest” in the killing of a Yale University graduate student whose body was hidden for days in a wall in a university research building, a Connecticut state official said Tuesday.

Prosecutors block release of Yale student’s autopsy; police interview 150 people

NEW HAVEN, Conn. — State prosecutors blocked the release Tuesday of autopsy results on a Yale graduate student whose body was found hidden in a wall in her lab building, reasoning that they could hinder their investigation, the Connecticut medical examiner said.

Health care issues: Shortage of primary care doctors and incentives to attract more

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Conn. police say no arrests imminent in killing of Yale University graduate student

NEW HAVEN, Conn. — Authorities insisted Tuesday that they were “talking to a lot of people” but had no suspect in custody in the killing of a Yale graduate student whose body was found in the basement wall of a university research building.

Autopsy results expected on Yale grad student amid indications that police are nearing arrest

NEW HAVEN, Conn. — The state medical examiner’s office said Tuesday that it would release the results of an autopsy of a Yale University graduate student amid indications that police were preparing to make an arrest in her killing.

Clues point to inside job in Yale killing; police seek to calm fears on Ivy League campus

NEW HAVEN, Conn. — Clues increasingly pointed to an inside job Monday in the slaying of a Yale graduate student whose body was found stuffed inside a wall five days after she vanished from a heavily secured lab building accessible only to university employees.

Yale killing wasn’t random, police say after body found stuffed in wall at lab building

NEW HAVEN, Conn. — The Yale graduate student presumed to have been killed in her lab building and stuffed into a wall there was probably not the victim of a random act, police said Monday as they sought to ease fears about student safety.

Police say killing at Yale University is not random act, no one else in danger on campus

NEW HAVEN, Conn. — Police are hunting for the killer who stuffed a body believed to be that of a Yale University graduate student behind a wall in the high-security laboratory building where she worked.

Critical need: More primary care doctors for projected surge of 50 million uninsured patients

BOSTON — When Dr. Robert Flaherty launched a private practice in 2001, he soon found himself cramming in as many patients as possible to make ends meet, leaving little time to discuss with them the steps they could take to prevent future health troubles.

Yale announces reward for helping finding Yale student missing since Tuesday

NEW HAVEN, Conn. — Yale University has announced a $10,000 reward for help finding a Yale graduate student who disappeared less than a week before her wedding.

In rural America, residents unable to access health care skeptical Congress’ reforms will help

WALSENBURG, Colo. — Don’t tell Dorothy J. Tenorio that Washington is nearing a deal to improve her health care.

Former Texas Gov. Bill Clements donates $100 million to UT Southwestern Medical Center

DALLAS — Former Texas Gov. Bill Clements has given the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center a landmark $100 million gift.

DA: Computer evidence linked accused Craigslist killer to crimes; financee says he’s innocent

BOSTON — A medical student facing charges of murdering a masseuse he had lured to a hotel through Craigslist was linked to the slaying in part by surveillance video and computer evidence, authorities said.

Law enforcement source: Items from 2 victims found in Craigslist suspect’s apt. near Boston

BOSTON — A Boston University medical student accused of robbing women who advertised erotic services on Craigslist, killing one of them, had items belonging to both victims in his apartment, a law enforcement source said Wednesday.

Conn. casino confirms cooperating with authorities investigating Craigslist slaying suspect

BOSTON — Investigators are looking into gambling as the possible motivation for a Boston medical student accused of targeting women who advertised exotic services on Craigslist, luring them into hotels to rob them and killing one woman who fought back.

Craigslist slaying suspect’s former med school lab partner says he was “strange in a dark way”

BOSTON — A former medical school lab partner of accused Craigslist killer Philip Markoff says she’s not surprised that he’s a suspect in the case because he had profound mood swings and often appeared “disturbed.”

Fiancee of Boston med student accused of killing woman he met on Craigslist says he’s innocent

BOSTON — The fiancee of accused Craigslist killer Philip Markoff stood by her man and swore he couldn’t hurt a fly.

Police: Boston med student held in masseuse’s death targeted women he met on Craigslist

BOSTON — Philip Markoff seemed to have a good life: The handsome, clean-cut, 23-year-old medical student was planning a lavish beachfront wedding this summer to a beautiful woman. But authorities say his computer and surveillance video paint a picture of a suspected serial criminal who targeted women offering erotic services through Craigslist. Now he’s accused of killing one and suspected of robbing and tying up another.

Boston medical student ordered held without bail in masseuse’s Craigslist death

BOSTON — A Boston medical student has been ordered held without bail on charges that he fatally shot a masseuse he had lured to his hotel through Craigslist.