Woman takes 2 kids into traffic; all die
A woman with a history of mental illness purposely walked her niece, 5, and nephew, 4, into oncoming interstate traffic to commit a double-murder suicide, a prosecutor said Friday.
Marcelle Thibault, 39, was driving south on Interstate 495 in Lowell last week when she drove across the median and northbound lanes and began driving against traffic, authorities said. She stopped the car, removed her clothes and undressed the children, took both into her arms and walked onto the highway. She and the children were struck by two cars and killed.
The children were the children of Thibault’s twin sister.
Washington
Clotting risk added to skin-patch label
A new study showing an increased risk of blood clots among women using a contraceptive skin patch prompted the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Friday to add that finding to the drug’s label.
The agency said the label on the Ortho Evra Contraceptive Transdermal Patch will include the results of a study in women 15-to-44 indicating a higher risk of clots than for women using birth-control pills.
The blood clots could potentially lead to a lung embolism, the agency said.
Detroit
911 operator guilty of neglect
A jury convicted a 911 operator Friday of willful neglect of duty after authorities said she didn’t take seriously a boy’s calls to report his mother had collapsed. The mother was found dead three hours after the first call.
The misdemeanor charge against Sharon Nichols is punishable by up to a year in jail. She will be sentenced March 11.
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