Hospital suspends brain surgeons for not operating on patient waiting in OR

By Calvin Palmer
Two of New York’s highest paid brain surgeons have been suspended by a Long Island hospital for not operating on a patient who was waiting in an operating room.
Thomas Milhorat and Paolo Bolognese were suspended for two weeks by North Shore University Hospital in Manhasset on April 17 and are scheduled to be [...]

Demjanjuk appeals to Supreme Court to stop deportation

By Calvin Palmer
The Ohio man accused of being a guard at a Nazi death camp today asked the Supreme Court to stop his deportation to Germany.
The 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati last week cleared the way for deporting John Demjanjuk, 89, of Seven Hills. But the retired auto worker, his family and [...]

Bacon and eggs combination makes Emma a £50,000 winner

By Calvin Palmer
The main ingredients of a classic English cooked breakfast – fried bacon and eggs – will soon became a new flavor offered by Britain’s top crisp manufacturer.
Walkers organized a competition – Do Us A Flavor — to come up with a new flavor for their crisps, or chips to American readers, and offered a first [...]

Porsche and VW agree to merger

By Calvin Palmer
German auto makers Porsche and Volkswagen have agreed to merge.
The announcement came today after a meeting between family and board members of the two companies in Salzburg, Austria.
Porsche CEO Wendelin Wiedeking said in a statement that the merger between his company and Europe’s largest carmaker, Volkswagen (VW), would happen in the near future.
The [...]

Contractor’s financial problems led to murder-suicide of family, say police

By Calvin Palmer
Police today said financial problems drove a California electrical contractor to shoot dead his live-in girlfriend and three-year-old son before killing himself.
Officers were called to an apartment in Orange, 30 miles southeast of Los Angeles, yesterday afternoon and found the bodies of Craig Rubin, 44, and Mary Striley, 42, on beds in separate [...]

Three jailed for forcing girl, 13, to have sex with dog

By Calvin Palmer
Three former employees of a Canadian mining company have each been jailed for 20 years for forcing a 13-year-old girl to have sex with a dog.
Magistrate Gadiel Mariki passed sentence on the two men and a woman after finding them guilty of “forcing a girl to have sex with a dog” in the [...]

Connecticut judge freezes $10 million assets of chimpanzee’s owner

By Calvin Palmer
A Connecticut judge today approved an agreement that freezes $10 million in assets belonging to the owner of a 200-pouond chimpanzee that savagely attacked a woman in February.
Judge Edward Karazin in the state Superior Court in Stamford also set aside the issue of publicly releasing photos of the victim, Charla Nash since they [...]

Helicopter crash in California kills two Marines and starts wildfire

By Calvin Palmer
Two pilots in the Marine Corps were killed when their helicopter crashed in Southern California last night.
The Super Cobra attack helicopter from the Medium Helicopter Squadron 166 based at Miramar Marine Corps Air Station crashed shortly before midnight north of Interstate 8 at Kitchen Creek Road in the Cleveland National Forest in eastern [...]

Argument over stolen DVD ends in fatal shooting

By Calvin Palmer
An argument over a stolen DVD led to three men being shot by a Houston homeowner in the front yard of his house last night, resulting in one of them being killed.
The homeowner has been taken into custody and faces murder charges, police said.
The shooting occurred during an argument outside his home on West Knoll [...]