By Calvin Palmer
An Air Force nurse in Texas has been charged with murder after allegedly giving lethal amounts of medication to three terminally ill patients in his care last summer.
Capt. Michael Fontana, 35, was formally charged yesterday with deliberately giving three Wilford Hall Medical Center patients lethal amounts of medication, and with conduct unbecoming an [...]
March 17, 2009
Air Force nurse charged over deaths of three terminally ill patients
March 17, 2009
Josef Fritzl trial to end a day early
By Calvin Palmer
The trial of Josef Fritzl will finish a day earlier than expected after the three judges and eight jurors completed viewing Elisabeth Fritzl’s video testimony today at the court in St Pölten, Austria.
Her 11 hours of testimony described how her father imprisoned her in a soundproofed cellar beneath the family home for 24 [...]
March 17, 2009
Lead fear in children’s books meets with ridicule from libraries
By Calvin Palmer
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) is urging the nation’s libraries to take children’s books printed before 1986 off their shelves while it investigates whether the ink contains unsafe levels of lead.
Librarians being well-read people have ridiculed the recommendation as being unduly alarmist and few, if any, libraries across the nation are [...]
March 17, 2009
Tourist bus crash in Mexico claims American and Canadian lives
By Calvin Palmer
Seven Americans were among the 11 people killed when a drunken driver lost control of his tractor-trailer slammed into a bus carrying Canadian and U.S. tourists in northern Mexico.
Jose Angel Herrera, a federal homicide detective in Coahuila state, said that seven Americans, three Canadians and the Mexican bus driver were killed.
The U.S. Embassy spokeswoman Liz [...]
March 17, 2009
Exclusive prostitution ring ran background checks on potential clients
By Calvin Palmer
A high-class prostitution ring in Houston ran background checks on the employment records and income levels of potential clients, say police.
“If you didn’t have at least $300 a session, you couldn’t get in the door,” said Houston police Sgt. Mark Kilty.
It appears many men met the strict criteria. Kilty said the client list totals [...]
March 17, 2009
Chimp attack woman’s family seeks $50m in damages
By Calvin Palmer
The family of a Connecticut woman savagely mauled by a pet chimpanzee last month has filed preliminary legal papers seeking $50 million in damages against owner.
Relatives of Charla Nash yesterday filed legal papers against Sandra Herold in the Superior Court in Stamford. The papers are a prelude to an expected lawsuit. They seek [...]
March 17, 2009
Liam Neeson’s wife in ‘critical condition’ after skiing accident
By Calvin Palmer
Actress Natasha Richardson, the wife of Irish film star Liam Neeson, was in a critical condition today after a skiing accident in Canada.
It is reported that she suffered a “traumatic brain injury” on the slopes of the exclusive resort of Mont Tremblant in Quebec yesterday afternoon and has been transferred to a hospital in Montreal.
The New York [...]
