By Calvin Palmer
Cleveland Browns wide receiver Donte Stallworth was drunk behind the wheel of his Bentley last weekend when he struck and killed a pedestrian in Miami Beach, according to The Miami Herald.
Miami Beach Police would not confirm Stallworth had a blood alcohol level above the legal limit.
”We have not released anything regarding the blood [...]
March 19, 2009
Police refuse to confirm Stallworth “over legal blood alcohol limit”
March 19, 2009
Autopsy finds “blunt impact to the head” caused Richardson’s death
By Calvin Palmer
Actress Natasha Richardson died of a brain injury after falling on a ski slope, an autopsy found today.
The cause of death was epidural hematoma , bleeding between the skull and the brain’s covering, due to blunt impact to the head, said Ellen Borakove, a spokeswoman for the New York City medical examiner’s office. [...]
March 19, 2009
Brazilian bikini waxing on the wane if New Jersey ban goes ahead
By Calvin Palmer
The New Jersey Board of Cosmetology and Hairstyling is proposing to ban “Brazilian” bikini waxes following reports of two women being hospitalized for infections.
One of the women has filed a lawsuit, according to Jeff Lamm, a spokesman for New Jersey’s Division of Consumer Affairs, which oversees the board.
Under New Jersey law only waxing [...]
March 19, 2009
Former SS concentration camp guard deported from Wisconsin
By Calvin Palmer
A former Nazi concentration camp guard who has been living in Wisconsin since 2002 has been deported to Austria, Justice Department officials said today.
Prosecutors said 83-year-old Josias Kumpf served as a guard at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp in Germany, the Trawniki labor camp in Nazi-occupied Poland, and at slave labor sites in occupied [...]
March 19, 2009
Atlantic divides opinion on the benefits of prostate cancer screening
By Calvin Palmer
America and Britain often see eye to eye on a great many subjects but when it comes to prostate cancer a clear divide emerges, according to two newspaper articles.
Both The New York Times and The Guardian carried stories yesterday about the case for prostate cancer screening.
The New York Times headlined its story, “Prostate [...]
March 19, 2009
Josef Fritzl sentenced to life in secure mental facility
By Calvin Palmer
Josef Fritzl will spend the rest of his life in a top-security psychiatric hospital after a jury at the court in St Pölten, Austria, today found him guilty of negligent murder, enslavement, incest, rape, coercion and false imprisonment.
Fritzl kidnapped his daughter, Elisabeth, in 1984 shortly after her 18th birthday and imprisoned her in a [...]
