Bodies of missing boater and daughter recovered from Biscayne Bay

By Calvin Palmer
The body of a Florida man and his eight-year-old daughter missing since they put out to sea on Sunday were found today.
A passing boater spotted the body in the waters of Biscayne Bay between Black Point Marina and Chicken Key just after 1:00 p.m., said Lt Eddy Ballester of Miami-Dade fire rescue.
The body [...]

French surgeons perform world’s first combined face and hands transplant

By Calvin Palmer
French surgeons today became the first in the world to perform a combined face and hands transplant on a 30-year-old burns victim.
The operation began on Saturday night, lasted 30 hours and was performed by a medical team of more than 40 people at the Henri Mondor Hospital in Creteil, a Paris suburb.
“It is [...]

Man accused of beating son, 3, says he was driving out a demon

By Calvin Palmer
A Texas man charged with felony injury to a child claims he was trying to drive a demon out of his son’s body.
Jacky Tran, 35, appeared in court today in connection with beating his three-year-old son and is being held in Harris County Jail on a $100,000 bond.
Tran’s cousin-in-law Thuba To said: “He [...]

Casey Anthony asked for sedatives when Caylee’s remains found

By Calvin Palmer
The Florida mother accused of killing her two-year-old daughter asked for sedatives when she heard the news that her daughter’s remains had been found in woods near her Orlando home.
A medical supervisor at the jail where Casey Anthony, 22, is being held told investigators that Anthony asked for the medication after learning of [...]

Producer says Farrah Fawcett ‘not on death’s door’

By Calvin Palmer
Former Charlie’s Angels star Farrah Fawcett is “not on death’s door,” says a producer who has worked with her.
Craig Nevius confirmed earlier today that 62-year-old Fawcett, who was diagnosed with anal cancer in 2006, was hospitalized in Los Angeles because of a blood clot that was likely a side effect of treatment she [...]

Boys, 10 and 11, questioned over attack with ‘cigarettes, knife and bricks’

By Calvin Palmer
Two boys, aged 10 and 11, were still being questioned by police in South Yorkshire today after a brutal attack on two other young boys.
The boys were arrested after their victims, aged 9 and 11, were said to have been burnt with cigarettes, cut with a knife and beaten with bricks.
The alarm was raised [...]

At least 150 dead as earthquake rocks historic Italian city

By Calvin Palmer
Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi this evening said that more than 150 people have been killed in the earthquake that rocked the historic city of L’Aquila in the early hours of this morning.
The earthquake, with a magnitude of 6.3, struck L’Aquila just after 3:30 a.m., bringing Renaissance and Baroque buildings crashing to the ground.
The epicenter [...]