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Conn. lawmakers to announce mental health proposal
Lawmakers, advocates and the mother of a child killed in the Newtown school shooting are unveiling a new proposal for child mental health at the state Capitol complex in Hartford. Nelba Marquez-Greene is scheduled to join Sen. Dante Bartolomeo of Meriden, Rep. Diana Urban of North Stonington and child advocates ...
Ohio man to stand trial in hospital shooting
An Ohio man is standing trial for allegedly shooting his wife of 45 years in a hospital intensive care unit in what may have been a mercy killing. Jury selection in the aggravated murder trial of John Wise is scheduled to start Monday morning in Summit County Common Pleas Court ...
NY town eyes limit on use of Plum Island
Selling an island where scientists have experimented with infectious animal diseases since the dawn of the Cold War was going to be difficult enough. But it now appears any prospective buyer won't be able to do much with Plum Island anyway. As the federal government proceeds with plans to sell ...
WVU Extension offers financial advice for grads
So, you're out of school and not quite ready for the real world? West Virginia University Extension Service may be able to help. Specialist Jane Riffe says many graduates experience mixed emotions. They worry about where their lives are headed and whether they have emotional and financial support. She calls ...
Prairie chickens spar for breeding rights
The sound echoes across the plains through the crisp, 25-degree morning air. It begins as a deep, but soft boom, then a squeak, and it grows as the sun peeks over the horizon. Prairie chickens swarm the grassy lek for their spring ritual. They couldn't be more than 50 feet ...
Tornadoes level homes in Okla., 1 dead
Tornadoes ravaged portions of central Oklahoma on Sunday, reducing portions of a mobile home park to rubble and killing a 79-year-old man whose body was found out in the open. "You can see where there's absolutely nothing, then there are places where you have mobile home frames on top of ...
Consumer group flags high SPF ratings on sunscreen
Sunbathers headed to the beach this summer will find new sunscreen labels on store shelves that are designed to make the products more effective and easier to use. But despite those long-awaited changes, many sunscreens continue to carry SPF ratings that some experts consider misleading and potentially dangerous, according to ...
US adviser on board of firm that sold anthrax drug
Former Navy Secretary Richard J. Danzig, who has served as a bio-warfare adviser to the president, the Pentagon, and the Department of Homeland Security, urged the government to stockpile an anti-anthrax drug while serving as a director for the company that supplied it, according to a report published Sunday. While ...
US adviser on board of firm that sold anthrax drug
Former Navy Secretary Richard J. Danzig, who has served as a bio-warfare adviser to the president, the Pentagon, and the Department of Homeland Security, urged the government to stockpile an anti-anthrax drug while serving as a director for the company that supplied it, according to a report published Sunday. While ...
More centers in DC area speak seniors' language
If Mohammad Rahro, 91, had gone to just any senior center in Maryland, chances are he would not have encountered someone who remembered the headmaster with four wives who rode to school each day on a beloved white donkey. Instead, on his first day at the Loving Care Adult Medical ...
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