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MARK MAKELA/REUTERS An Amish horse and buggy travels on a road in Pennsylvania. An Ohio Amish girl fled her home with her parents after a court-appointed guardian tried to force chemotherapy treatments on the ill girl. The guardian dropped her bid Friday. TOLEDO, Ohio — A court-appointed guardian is dropping her attempt to force an 11-year-old Amish girl with leukemia ...

Felix Lam/for New York Daily News Rescue workers help passengers who had been on the Metro-North train when it derailed near the Spuyten Duyvil station in the Bronx. Sleep apnea may have caused the locomotive engineer in the deadly Metro-North crash to zone out just before the train tumbled off the tracks. William Rockefeller is expected to undergo an evaluation ...

Coolcaesar via Wikipedia Four students have been sickened with meningitis at the University of California, Santa Barbara, in the past month, county health officials said. An outbreak of disease linked to bacteria that cause meningitis has sickened four students at a major California university, prompting discussions with federal regulators about hastening approval of a new vaccine. The students, at the ...

Giancarli, Alfred/Freelance, NYDN An Art-deco Starbucks in the Parkchester neighborhood of the Bronx. According to a new report, no new Starbucks opened in the Bronx in 2012, though four Dunkin Donuts did. It’s the invasion of the chain gang. Corporate franchises have increased their presence throughout the boroughs for the sixth year running, with the largest increases occurring in Brooklyn ...

ERIC THAYER/REUTERS Metro-North engineer William Rockefeller Jr. is loaded into an ambulance after the train’s derailment in the Bronx. Rockefeller was described by an investigator as ‘consciously asleep’ during the incident. The conductor at the helm during Sunday’s deadly Metro-North crash has been described by investigators as “consciously asleep” leading up to the incident. “I was in a daze,” William ...

Comstock Images/Getty Images A new report by the New York City Coalition Against Hunger reveals nearly 49% of Bronx children live in households with an “inconsistent supply of nutrition”  The Boogie Down has the greatest number of growling bellies. The Bronx is the hungriest borough — with nearly half of kids and more than a third of homes lacking access ...

hero30 /shutterstock.com Energy drinks appear to cause more forceful heart contractions, and those with irregular heartbeat may want to avoid them altogether, caution researchers behind a small German study that examined heart imaging of 17 people after they consumed one of the drinks. If you rely on energy drinks to give you a buzz, researchers are warning that all that ...

Facebook Tascha stays by Dylan Gerzmehle’s side night and day. A German boy in a permanent vegetative state may lose his best friend — an American Staffordshire Terrier — after authorities claimed it was a dangerous pet. The decision to remove “chief carer” Tascha from Dylan Gerzmehle’s side has been opposed by more than 100,000 people on a Facebook campaign. ...

Daily News Photo Illustration The past two months have been a monster for President Obama, but the administration got some good news Saturday as the Obamacare website, HealthCare.gov, showed signs of progress after a disastrous October rollout. WASHINGTON — The Obama administration reached its self-imposed deadline Saturday to repair the malfunctioning HealthCare.gov site, showing progress but far from total success. ...

Dr. Allan Stewart, director of aortic surgery at Mount Sinai Hospital THE SPECIALIST: Dr. Allan Stewart As the director of aortic surgery and co-director of the heart valve center at Mount Sinai, Allan Stewart is a cardiac surgeon who does all kinds of heart repairs. He performs about 300 heart valve surgeries a year. WHO’S AT RISK Aneurysms are balloon-like ...