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Victims: Marines failed to safeguard water supply
A simple test could have alerted officials that the drinking water at Camp Lejeune was contaminated, long before authorities determined that as many as a million Marines and their families were exposed to a witch's brew of cancer-causing chemicals. But no one responsible for the lab at the base can ...
State Drug Court conference to be held in Tunica
Mississippi Supreme Court Chief Justice Bill Waller Jr. will speak Wednesday at the opening of a three-day conference in of the Mississippi Association of Drug Court Professionals. The conference will run through Friday at Harrah's Conference Center in Tunica. Tracy Swafford of Cleveland, president of MADCP and drug court coordinator ...
How DC workplace moved to get healthier together
Carrie Clyne's last job was in an office that feasted on a steady supply of junk food. Donuts in the mornings and cupcakes for staffers' birthdays were the familiar routine. But in January, when she took a position with nonprofit organization Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, she was pleasantly surprised ...
Vilanova returning to NY for more cancer treatment
Barcelona coach Tito Vilanova will return to New York next week to "undergo further cancer treatment" after having a second tumor in two years removed from his throat in December. The club says Vilanova will be given "pioneering treatment" from Monday to Friday that was originally scheduled for this summer ...
City snuffs smoking ban expansion
The McComb Board of Selectmen has voted down a proposed ordinance that would ban smoking in all public workplaces in the city. The Mississippi Tobacco Free Coalition had proposed the ordinance. The Enterprise-Journal reports (http://bit.ly/16DZZac ) that the board voted 5-0 this week against the ordinance. The city already has ...
Cook County Jail has outbreak of lice, scabies
Cook County Sheriff Thomas Dart says there is an outbreak of lice and scabies at the county jail and the hospital serving jail detainees. Dart said Friday he has ordered the isolation of a division of Cook County Jail and part of Cermak Hospital. Five detainees housed in the hospital's ...
Amesbury woman adjusting to life after amputation
More than seven months after losing her leg in a near-fatal accident in Haverhill, Paige Fortin is finally back on her feet. The 18-year-old Amesbury resident has endured a hard road riddled with surgeries and setbacks, but within the past several weeks her injuries have healed to the point where ...
SPOTLIGHT: 2 nurses, 2 journeys, 1 goal
Leeann Jones and Crystal Honald both followed personal connections to a career in nursing at Southern Illinois Healthcare. Their stories are different, but their goals are the same. Jones, who wears SIH's badge number 75, grew up in the medical, the daughter of a mother who had worked at Herrin ...
Addicts turn to heroin as pain pills become scarce
Kevin Foley stood before a judge in Broward County's drug court — fellow abusers sitting behind in him in the pews — talking about the fitful life of a recovering addict, the random drug tests, the counseling and what he hoped was his next, clean chapter. Foley, 21, has been ...
Veteran's family aims to help others with PTSD
The sight of an old van parked on the street sent the soldier's mind back to Iraq. Tyler Armacost darted off the front porch of his parents' house and into the street because he thought he saw an Iraqi insurgent in the van. His mother tried to shake him and ...
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