Three Florida Boys Hospitalized After Drug Incident
An 8-year-old found crack near a school bus stop and ate it thinking it was candy. A 10-year-old on the bus took the bag and shared it with a 6-year-old. All three were hospitalized on arrival at Lovell Elementary in Apopka and released shortly after.
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Bernie Presha
Orange County
Sheriff's Office
Presha
Lovell
Apopka
Northwest Airlines sues flight attendants union over sickout
Northwest Airlines filed a federal lawsuit against its flight attendants union Teamsters Local 2000 and officers alleging an illegal sickout to pressure for a new contract. Since December 30 the airline canceled over 300 flights and seeks an immediate restraining order to restore reliable service.
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Northwest Airlines
Teamsters Local 2000
Northwest
St. Paul
Egan
Anthrax Threat Targets Toledo Planned Parenthood Clinic
A Planned Parenthood clinic in Toledo received an anthrax threat on Tuesday prompting police to seal a 10 block stretch downtown. Officials deem the threat unlikely to be credible, noting about 20 similar letters nationwide with no verified danger. A spokesperson and the interim director denied any real threat behind the communications.
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Planned Parenthood
Toledo
Greg Locher
Bev Nathan
Awakening After Sixteen Years Ends Family Mystery in Albuquerque
Patricia White Bull, 42, who slipped into a catatonic state during a Cesarean delivery, awoke on Christmas Eve after 16 years. Doctors cite a blood clot and oxygen deprivation. She now speaks, eats lightly, and hopes to regain more abilities as her children and family adjust.
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Chicago
Judith Branka
Baby T
Illinois Department of Children and Family Services
Anne Burke
Edward Burke
Branka
Tina Olsson
Olison
Albuquerque
Patricia White Bull
Ms. White Bull
Snowflake Flower
Mark Jr
Cindi
Floris
Jesse
Standing Rock Sioux Reservation
South Dakota
Mark Sr
Mark
AP Priyte Patricia White Bull
White Bull
Albuquerque, N.M
Musgrove elected Mississippi governor by House vote
In a historic party line vote the Democrat Ronnie Musgrove won 86 to 36 in the Mississippi House to become governor, replacing Kirk Fordice whose term ends. A Republican concession was not forthcoming as Parker urged the people to decide, while Musgrove’s victory followed a century old constitutional rule sending the decision to the House.
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Jackson
Miss
Mississippi
Ronnie Musgrove
House of Representatives
Musgrove
House
Mike Parker
Kirk Fordice
Steve Holland
D-Plantersville
Fordice
Parker
Jim Ellington
Mike
Ellington
Links sought in latest border arrest
Algerian man Abdel Hakim Tizegha, 29, tied to the Ressam explosives case, was arrested near Seattle on December 24 and charged with illegal entry. Authorities also hold Ahmed Ressam’s alleged accomplice Abdel Ghani and a fourth man as a material witness. connections remain unclear.
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Startve
Canada
Seattle Times
Abdel Hakim Tizegha
Seattle
Ahmed Ressam
Tizegha
Ressam
New York
Abdel Ghani
United States
Nurse Practitioners Equal to Doctors in Primary Care
A study of 1316 patients with asthma diabetes or hypertension shows nurse practitioners and doctors deliver equal medical benefit and patient satisfaction after six months. The research, focusing on poor immigrants, leaves questions about broader applicability and longer-term complex cases.
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Journal of the American Medical Assa
Pennsylvania
Georgia
Michigan
Ohio
Mary Mundinger
Columbia University School of Nursing
New York
HPV test could rival Pap smear for cervical cancer
CHICAGO AP The HPV test which needs no pelvic exam may soon compete with the Pap smear as an accurate cancer screening tool though it yields more false positives and requires more follow up testing. Experts note cost and effectiveness for reducing deaths remain uncertain while it may suit developing countries lacking pelvic exams and cell lab tests. The test is licensed in the US only as a Pap follow up and is not yet approved for routine screening. It rests on the link between HPV and nearly all cervical cancers.
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Chicago
Journal of the American Medical Assa
Jack Cuzick
Imperial Cancer Research Fund
London
United States
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