Rights leaders press for arrest in Florida shooting
Civil rights groups gather at a Sanford town hall urging a full investigation into the fatal Feb. 26 shooting of 17 year old Trayvon Martin by neighborhood watch captain George Zimmerman. DOJ civil rights probe opened. grand jury slated for April 10.
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Trayvon Martin
NAACP
American Civil Liberties Union
Nation of Islam
George Zimmerman
Zimmerman
Martin
Benjamin Jealous
Orlando
Rick Scott
Justice Department
Civil Rights Division
Florida
Seminole County
Norm Wolfinger
Department of Justice
Jealous
Rules of Justice
Town Hall
Allen Chapel Ame
Turner Clayton Jr
Federal Justice Department
Clayton
Associated Press
Benjamin Crump
Crump
Miami
Florida Department of Law Enforcement
Scientists seek blood clue to predict imminent heart attack
Scripps Translational Science Institute researchers funded by NIH report that circulating deformed endothelial cells in blood may signal plaque rupture hours to days before a heart attack. The study compares 50 heart attack patients with 44 healthy volunteers, noting the cells are abundant and abnormal in patients. Further studies and a patent filing for a blood test are planned.
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Washington
Eric Topol
California
Scripps Translational Science Institute
Scripps
Topol
Science Translational Medicine
San Diego
Ferers
Douglas Zipes
Indiana University
American College of Cardiology
William C. Little
Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center
National Institutes of Health
Veridex LLC
Johnson & Johnson
Wake Forest
Scripps and
Veridex
Tennessee foils female death row breakout plot
Tennessee authorities say two men including a former prison guard were arrested in a plot to break out Christa Gail Pike, the lone female death row inmate. Investigators say money changed hands and the plan was in the works though no imminent escape danger existed. Pike was convicted for the 1995 University of Tennessee campus killing.
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Tennessee
Tennessee Bureau of Investigation
Kristin Helm
Christa Gail Pike
Pike
West Virginia
Knoxville
Job Corps
Colleen Slemmer
Tadary Shipp
University of
Shipp
Slemmer
New Jersey
Donald Kohut
Flemington
N.J
West Virginia signs mine safety bill ahead of disaster anniversary
A Wednesday ceremony in Charleston marked the signing of updated mine safety laws in West Virginia. Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin and House Speaker Rick Thompson attended to highlight provisions inspired by the Upper Big Branch disaster, including whistleblower protections, on-site safety log sign-offs, and controls on methane gas and coal dust levels. Tombini signed the legislation last week at a statue dedication on the Capitol grounds.
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West Virginia
Earl Ray Tomblin
Rick Thompson
Upper Big Branch
Raleigh County
Tombini
State Capitol
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