South Carolina mom pleads to involuntary manslaughter in fetus death
Talitha Garrick 27 pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter for a fetus death linked to crack cocaine use, the first murder charge under a 1996 SC ruling allowing prosecutions of pregnant women for harming a viable fetus. She received a three year suspended sentence after prosecutors dropped murder by child abuse. Garrick was 38 weeks pregnant when she called medics for pain and cramps claiming recent crack use.
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Talitha Renee Garrick
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Unidentified Woman Falls From Airplane Fatal Fall
Police believe a woman wearing a black shirt and black tights fell from a nearby 20 story apartment building and died after landing on a garden wall. She had no identification and detectives voiced uncertainty about the fall. Residents heard a bang and found the body halved on the wall.
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Delrish Moss
Moss
Wiper seat failures in GM trucks probed nationwide
U S safety agency investigates more than 400 complaints of windshield wiper failures in 1995 GM models including Chevrolet Blazer GMC Jimmy Oldsmobile Bravada and Chevrolet and GMC pickup lines. It also probes 46 complaints of seats tipping to reclined position while driving in 1994 95 Chevrolet C K pickups and Suburban SUVs with power bucket seats.
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General Motors
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Health care workers call to end for profit in medicine
In JAMA the Ad Hoc Committee to Defend Health Care, supported by 2,288 signatories including Harvard and Boston University physicians, urges a moratorium on for profit hospital and HMO Takeovers and a return to physician autonomy with salaried or limited fee structures while nationalizing care as a possible solution.
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Ousted Teamsters chief appeals ruling
Teamsters President Ron Carey appeals a ruling that barred him from running in the re election. He argues he was denied charges and that proceedings violated his rights while claiming the case rests on uncorroborated testimony from a felon. He seeks reversal or a new hearing in New York City.
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Kenneth Conboy
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U.S
David Edelstein
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James P. Hoffa
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