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An investigation is underway after human remains were found at an arboretum in Philadelphia’s Germantown neighborhood.

An Alameda County Superior Court jury has awarded $2 billion in punitive damages in the case of a Livermore husband and wife who claimed that Monsanto Co.’s Roundup herbicide caused both of them to develop cancer.

A U.S. jury on Wednesday awarded $80 million in damages to a California man who blamed Roundup weed killer for his cancer, in a case that his attorneys say could help determine the fate of hundreds of similar lawsuits.

A jury in federal court in San Francisco has ruled that Roundup weed killer was a factor in causing a California man’s cancer in a weeks-long trial that started last month. Edwin Hardeman, 70, is the second plaintiff to go to trial of thousands around the country who claim agribusiness giant Monsanto’s weed killer causes cancer. Hardeman won the first...

A Northern California groundskeeper said Wednesday that he will accept a judge’s reduced verdict of $78 million against Monsanto after a jury found the company’s weed killer caused his cancer. DeWayne Johnson’s attorney formally informed the San Francisco Superior Court that he would not contest the judge’s decision to reduce a jury’s original $289 million award.

A Northern California judge on Monday upheld a jury’s verdict that found Monsanto’s weed killer caused a groundskeeper’s cancer, but she slashed the amount of money to be paid from $289 million to $78 million.

Social media feeds have been swamped by news that the advocacy organization Environmental Working Group found traces of the pesticide glyphosate, the main ingredient in Roundup, in certain popular breakfast cereals like Cheerios. While the headlines have alarmed parents, there are several reasons not to panic, NBC News reported. Research by the EWG, which actively campaigns against glyphosate, was not...

A school groundskeeper and former fire chief was arrested for allegedly uploading child porn from a computer in the Westchester home where his wife and adult daughter live, prosecutors say.

A transient was charged Wednesday with capital murder for the bludgeoning deaths of an 89-year-old man and his 74-year-old wife at their multimillion-dollar home the day after Christmas in 2014.