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AM News Headlines 9-5-12

Today's Top Stories and Storm Team Forecast

Updated: Wednesday, 05 Sep 2012, 8:24 AM EDT
Published : Wednesday, 05 Sep 2012, 8:24 AM EDT

(WWLP) - Critics are denouncing a federal judge's ruling ...ordering the state to provide sex-change surgery to a transgender prison inmate.  Senator Scott Brown calls it "an outrageous abuse of taxpayer dollars"...and says he hopes it will be overturned.

A tractor-trailer rolled down an embankment overnight on 91 northbound in Northampton early this morning...shutting down both lanes for a time.

The State Gaming Commission has asked Springfield to put the process to bring a casino to the city on hold...as they investigate a possible conflict of interest.

Doctors are diagnosing more and more children with skin cancer. They're finding it in teens and children as young as 10 years old...everything from basal cell carcinoma to melanoma.  Doctors believe genetics and ultra violet light exposure are playing a big role in the increase.
   
We'll take a closer look on 22News at Noon.

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