The recommended national ban wouldn't apply to hands-free devices or to passengers of vehicles. In the past, the NTSB has recommended bans for cell phones and messaging devices for novice drivers, school bus drivers and commercial truck drivers, but this is far more reaching -- potentially impacting every driver on the road.
David Magee
Dec 13, 2011
Missouri has a law that bans those under the age of 21 from texting and driving. But one 19-year-old driver in Missouri apparently didn't get the notice. He sent and received a total of 11 text messages in a deadly highway crash last year in the 11 minutes before the crash, according to federal investigators.
David Magee
Dec 13, 2011
Facebook launched a suicide prevention program with the Lifeline Tuesday, which will give troubled users an ability to chat with crisis experts 24 hours a day.
Dave Smith
Dec 13, 2011
Google celebrated what would have been the 84th birthday of the late Robert Noyce, co-inventor of the integrated circuit, with electronics-themed Google Doodle on Monday, Dec. 12.
Ankita Mehta
Dec 13, 2011
A new study of leukemia drug Mylotarg, pulled from the U.S. market last year due to safety concerns, found it to be effective when used at low doses in older adults but questions about toxicity remain.
IBT Staff Reporter
Dec 12, 2011
A single treatment with gene therapy, an experimental technique for fixing faulty genes, has been shown to boost output of a vital blood clotting factor, possibly offering a long-term solution for people with hemophilia B.
IBT Staff Reporter
Dec 12, 2011
The Google Doodle honors Robert Noyce who would have celebrated his 84th birthday Monday. During his lifetime, Noyce was nicknamed the Mayor of Silicon Valley, having co-founded Fairchild Semiconductor in 1957 and Intel in 1968. He also co-created the microchip with Jack Kilby in the late 1950s.
Julia Greenberg
Dec 12, 2011
About 7 million Americans get jobless benefits under seven different state and federal programs. Around one-quarter of them will fall off the rolls in January unless the U.S. Congress renews an extended-benefits program that expires at the end of the year.
J.J. McGrath
Dec 11, 2011
Scientists have for the first time created blood platelet cells by reprogramming stem cells derived from adult cells, offering the potential for a renewable supply of the fragile blood component.
keep for now
Dec 10, 2011
The budding rivalry between currently surging Newt Gingrich and former front-runner Mitt Romney will take center stage on Saturday in the first of two Republican presidential debates in Iowa over the next five days.
J.J. McGrath
Dec 10, 2011
Antidepressants have made some sufferers of depression feel even more depressed, a fresh look at past studies has found.
Ceylan Yeginsu
Dec 09, 2011
According to a new look at past antidepressant trials, up to a fifth of patients on Cymbalta and similar medications may actually do worse than those given drug-free placebo pills.
Dave Smith
Dec 09, 2011
A controversial state-funded date-rape ad campaign meant to warn young adults about the links between heavy drinking and rape has been pulled by Pennsylvania's Liquor Control Board after a barrage of criticism.
Ankita Mehta
Dec 09, 2011
American paleontologists have unearthed in New Mexico fossil bones of North America’s largest-known dinosaur, which lived about 69 million years ago.
Ankita Mehta
Dec 08, 2011
The wife of the former Penn State football coach Jerry Sandusky, accused of serial child sexual abuse, said on Thursday she believes the charges against her husband are absolutely untrue.
IBT Staff Reporter
Dec 08, 2011
After his arrest Wednesday on the charge of 12 new child sex abuse counts involving two new alleged victims, former Penn State assistant coach Jerry Sandusky was released from an overnight jail stay Thursday after posting bail.
Lauren Holter
Dec 08, 2011
From the 2010 study, activity of people surfing the Internet, sending text messages and other mobile communication activities increased in the most recent survey to 0.9 percent of all drivers, up from 0.6 percent the previous year.
David Magee
Dec 08, 2011
Joe Amendola, Jerry Sandusky's lawyer in the Penn State child sex abuse case, told reporters last week that his client may consider a guilty plea if more victims come forward. As new allegations surface, however, Amendola insists a plea deal was never on the table, instead outlining a defense strategy to undermine victim testimony and credibility.
Melanie Jones
Dec 07, 2011
Two new victims, Victims 9 and 10, have come forward in the sexual harassment case against former Penn State defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky. Pennsylvania police arrested Sandusky at his home on Wednesday following the new charges brought forward in a grand jury report.
Julia Greenberg
Dec 07, 2011
Former Penn State defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky has been arrested by Pennsylvania police at his home on Wednesday for new charges brought forward and filed by a grand jury against him, according to reports.
Jason Van Hoven
Dec 07, 2011
In an effort to provide relief to families left with no potable drinking water in Dimock Pennsylvania, activists and local leaders shipped roughly 5,700 gallons of fresh water supplies by bus Tuesday from New York City's city hall.
Pierre Bertrand
Dec 06, 2011
The stringent anti-immigration laws that have proliferated in states since Arizona passed SB1070 encompass more than older immigration laws the U.S. Surpeme Court has deicided
Dan Rivoli
Dec 06, 2011
