CHICAGO (AP) — Drug overdose deaths rose for the 11th straight year, federal data show, and most of them were accidents involving addictive painkillers despite growing attention to risks from these medicines."The big picture is that this is a big problem that has gotten much worse quickly," said Dr. Thomas Frieden, head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which gathered and analyzed...
Appeals court revives women inmates' bid for Wiccan chaplain
Label: Business At the Central California Women's Facility in Chowchilla, shown, inmates are contending in a lawsuit that California prison policy favors...
Feb
18
Briefs | Middle East: Iran: Rivals Forced to Apologize to Supreme Leader
Label: World Rival politicians apologized to Ayatollah Ali Khamenei over the weekend for having been embroiled in an unusually public feud involving secret tapes and a tit-for-tat impeachment. On Sunday, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad; the Parliament speaker, Ali Larijani; his brother, Sadegh Larijani; the chief of Iran’s judiciary; and all members of Parliament sent letters expressing sorrow and promising renewed...
Mindy McCready: Under Police Scrutiny at Time of Suicide?
Label: Lifestyle By Steve Helling and Mike Fleeman 02/18/2013 at 06:00 PM EST Mindy McCready and David Wilson Courtesy Mindy McCready When Mindy McCready talked to police in recent weeks, her account of how her boyfriend came to be found with a fatal gunshot wound to the head...
Hip implants a bit more likely to fail in women
Label: HealthCHICAGO (AP) — Hip replacements are slightly more likely to fail in women than in men, according to one of the largest studies of its kind in U.S. patients. The risk of the implants failing is low, but women were 29 percent more likely than men to need a repeat surgery within the first three years.The message for women considering hip replacement surgery remains unclear. It's not known which models...
Surfers, Marines in a tussle over Trestles
Label: Business A disagreement over a well-known slice of the Southern California coast is threatening to drive a wedge between Marines and...
Feb
17
In Russia, Property Ruined and Spared by Meteor Share Space
Label: WorldCHELYABINSK, Russia — The shock wave from a meteor that exploded above Siberia last week somehow sheared the roof off a brick and steel factory building while leaving a nearby glass facade unscathed. In some high-rises in this city, the first modern urban community to have felt the breath of a cosmic close encounter, every window blew out on the top floor; elsewhere, the ground floors suffered....
See The Dress Only Jennifer Lopez Could Wear
Label: Lifestyle Stylewatch Style News Now 02/15/2013 at 06:00 PM ET Dave Allocca/Startraks; Amanda Edwards/WireImage; Jason LaVeris/FilmMagicJudging by the red carpet looks seen at the Grammys and the creations sent down the runways at New York...
UN warns risk of hepatitis E in S. Sudan grows
Label: HealthGENEVA (AP) — The United Nations says an outbreak of hepatitis E has killed 111 refugees in camps in South Sudan since July, and has become endemic in the region.U.N. refugee agency spokesman Adrian Edwards says the influx of people to the camps from neighboring Sudan is believed to be one of the factors in the rapid spread of the contagious, life-threatening inflammatory viral disease of the liver.Edwards...
Former O.C. attorney suspected of killing ex-wife on cruise
Label: Business A former Orange County attorney has been arrested on suspicion of killing his ex-wife for financial gain in 2006 by strangling...
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