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Cheney Warned Over Missing Hunting Stamp

Vice President Dick Cheney has been given a warning citation for breaking Texas hunting law by failing to buy a $7 stamp allowing him to shoot upland game birds.

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New Age Guru Sweat Lodge Claims Three Lives
Source: The New York Times

About 90 minutes into the ceremony, Dr. Bunn said, someone yelled in the darkness that a woman had passed out just after Mr. Ray closed the tent door between rounds. Dr. Bunn said Mr. Ray replied, "We will deal with that after the next round."

Two dead at James Arthur Ray The Secret sweat lodge retreat
Source: Australian News Network

CRIMINAL charges are possible against The Secret author James Arthur Ray after two people died in a "sweat lodge" that was meant to provide spiritual cleansing for the 64 people crowded inside.

Medical malpractice reform savings would be small, report says -- latimes.com
Source: The L.A. Times

Tort reform is simply another attempt to maximize profits at the expense of those injured by acts of incompetence, negligence and malfeasance. If those who are guilty of such acts wish to lower the financial damages they can clean up their acts or appeal the jury award.

Parents to be tried in child's prayer death
Source: The Philadelphia Inquirer

When 2-year-old Kent Schaible became ill in January, his parents did what they always did: They prayed. Herbert and Catherine Schaible prayed for 10 days, and when Kent did not improve, they called their pastor to pray with them. When that failed, they called the funeral home.

Police: Boy Locked In Closet For 4 Years
Source: KOCO.com - Local News

OKLAHOMA CITY -- Two people have been arrested on suspicion of keeping a teenage boy inside a locked closet for four years, Oklahoma City police said.

Teen charged in 6-year-old boy's fatal shooting of 5-year-old
Source: WGAL.com - Local News

EARL TOWNSHIP, Pa. -- Police in Lancaster County have filed charges against 18-year-old Randall Hoover in connection with the shooting death of a 5-year-old boy.

Man Charged With Leaving 3 Blind, Deaf Adults In Car
Source: WGAL.com - Local News

ADAMS COUNTY, Pa. -- An Adams County man is charged with leaving three blind and deaf adults in a car for about an hour Sunday while he ate at a diner in Frederick, Md.

Police admit abuse 'negligence'
Source: BBC News

The family of a Cardiff three-year-old girl assaulted by a paedophile say police have apologised and stopped opposing a civil claim for negligence.

State Agency to pay greater attention to foster kids
Source: TCPalm.com

The image emerging of DCF's handling of foster children who've been prescribed mental-health drugs is of an agency woefully inattentive to details

Mother found guilty in Wausau prayer death case
Source: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

A jury Friday found a central Wisconsin mother guilty of killing her 11-year-old daughter by praying for her to heal instead of rushing her to a doctor.

Report: 25% of Overseas Votes Go Uncounted
Source: Yahoo! News

One out of every four ballots requested by military personnel and other Americans living overseas for the 2008 election may have gone uncounted See more irresistible headlines

Chopped finger at restaurant brings settlement
Source: The San Francisco Chronicle

Excerpt: An El Sobrante restaurant has agreed to pay $250,000 to settle a lawsuit filed by a 50-year-old woman who had the tip of her finger chopped off in a freak accident with her chair, her attorney said Thursday.

As trial nears, Grace remains the talk of Libby
Source: Billings Gzzette

W. R. Grace remains the talk of small town Libby, MT as the trial nears. "Have you been affected by asbestos" became the question around town a decade or more ago. An Indictment unsealed 6 years ago claimed that W.R.

Russian Hospital Rat Attack is Blamed on Negligence

On January 28 the Serpukhov Children's Hospital in Serpukhov Russia was the seen of a gruesome rat attack. At around 4 p.m. nurses heard 1-year-old Anastasia cry out, as they ran to her aid they saw a large rat jump from her bed.

Is The Federal Reserve's Dual Mandate of Price Stability & Maximum Sustainable Employment One of Many Causal Factors Of Our Economic Trouble?

Can the argument be made that the dual mandate of price stability and maximum sustainable employment at the Federal Reserve is one of many reasons for our economic trouble? I believe it is a causal factor and potentially a main factor.

Starved to death in an NHS hospital: Damning inquiry highlights case of patient left without food for 26 days
Source: the Mail online

A vulnerable patient starved to death in an NHS hospital after 26 days without proper nourishment. Martin Ryan, 43, had suffered a stroke which left him unable to swallow. But a 'total breakdown in communication' meant he was never fitted with a feeding tube.

Guardian Charged In Death Of 2-Year-Old -
Source: WYFF4.com - Local News

A woman awarded custody of a Greenville County toddler a year ago has been charged in connection with the 2-year-old girl's death on Friday. The child, Samauri Mayes, was taken off life support on Friday after being admitted with head injuries on Wednesday.

Manslaughter charge to be dismissed in Big Dig collapse
Source: The Boston Globe

Powers Fasteners Inc., the only company to face criminal charges in connection with the fatal collapse of a section of Big Dig tunnel, has agreed to pay $16 million to the state and city to settle claims against it and to have the manslaughter charge dismissed, a lawyer for the c …

CIA 'lied' over fatal attack on missionary plane
Source: The Times

FOR Jim and Veronica Bowers and their two small children, the flight up the Amazon in a single-engined Cessna float plane should have been a routine return to the remote house-boat where the family lived during missionary work with Indian tribes.

$2M sought in store stampede
Source: Newsday.com

--Also, short video interview of woman who was at the store when the tragedy happened.--

Father of 2 girls who froze to death pleads guilty
Source: CBC

A man from Saskatchewan's Yellow Quill First Nation has pleaded guilty to criminal negligence causing death for allowing his two young daughters to freeze to death in a snowy field earlier this year.

Chief did unlicensed surgery
Source: theage.com.au

THE Alfred hospital allowed its former trauma chief to operate on patients' vital organs despite his medical licence restricting him to orthopedic surgery.

McCain Linked to 134 Deaths Aboard Carrier and Many Other Pilot-Error Crashes Due to Carelessness, Incompetence, and Bad Temperament: Cover-ups, Transfers Followed
Source: hnn.us

Historians have looked at the official military records, the testimony of John McCain and his Father the Admiral, and the words of the surviving victims of the terrible fire aboard the U.S.S. Forrestal caused by a rocket misfire causing fuel to spill and a small fire.

Parents In Faith Healing Death Arrested
Source: kptv.com

"]The mother and father of a teenager who died in June turned themselves in Thursday to face charges of criminally negligent homicide."

Family can't sue health department over meth house
Source: ksl.com

A Salt Lake County family is devastated after a judge ruled they can't sue the health department for negligence.

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