By Calvin Palmer
The 13-year-old Minnesota boy suffering from cancer who was ordered to have chemotherapy by a judge is angry that the judge ruled the treatment must continue.
Daniel Hauser, who fled the state to avoid treatment for Hodgkin’s lymphoma, had hoped he would be able to stop the chemotherapy, which he says makes him dizzy [...]
June 23, 2009
Judge’s ruling that chemotherapy must continue angers cancer boy
June 23, 2009
Mother found guilty of murder in case of starved seven-year-old girl
By Calvin Palmer
The mother of a seven-year-old girl who starved to death has been found guilty of her murder while the father was found guilty of manslaughter.
The jury at the Supreme Court in New South Wales took a week to reach its verdicts.
At the start of the trial the jurors were warned by Crown Prosecutor [...]
June 23, 2009
Unconfirmed reports state crash killed pilot of F-16
By Calvin Palmer
Rescue teams are still searching for the pilot of an F-16 that crashed at the Utah Test and Training Range west of Salt Lake City last night.
Rhonda Elmore, of the 75th Air Base Wing public affairs office at Hill Air Force Base, says it is not known whether the pilot was able to [...]
June 23, 2009
Prosecutor lightens up over girl,14, who posted explicit nude MySpace photos
By Calvin Palmer
The child pornography charges against a 14-year-old New Jersey girl who posted nude pictures of herself on MySpace.com will be dropped.
The girl from Clifton was initially charged with possession of child pornography and distribution of child pornography after Passaic County Sheriff’s Office was alerted to 20 explicit nude photos of her on the [...]
June 23, 2009
Texas man accused of murder after homosexual encounter went wrong
By Calvin Palmer
A Texas man sought by police after a sexual encounter with another man turned into murder was arrested in Bryan yesterday.
Thomas Ashford, 22, of Huffman, faces a murder charge in the stabbing death of 60-year-old Alfred Nahapetian.
Ashford, who has prior misdemeanor convictions for car burglary and marijuana possession, is being held at the Harris County [...]
June 23, 2009
Officials deny reports of signals heard from black boxes of Air France jet.
By Calvin Palmer
A report by the French newspaper Le Monde that signals from the black boxes of Air France Flight 447 had been detected were denied by French officials today.
The two recorders are vital to determine what happened to the Airbus A330-200 that plunged into the Atlantic Ocean on May 31 after encountering severe thunderstorms [...]
June 23, 2009
Safety issues about one of Metro rail crash trains were ignored, says NTSB
By Calvin Palmer
Washington D.C. mayor Adrian Fenty announced today that the number of people killed in yesterday’s Metro rail crash had risen to nine, including the five bodies removed from the wreckage today.
Investigators are still trying to determine the cause of the accident and it emerged that the subway train that ran into another was [...]
June 23, 2009
Four bodies found in Kansas City home
By Calvin Palmer
Police in Kansas City are conducting a homicide investigation after the bodies of three adults and a child were discovered at a home yesterday afternoon.
The bodies were found in a house on a tree-lined street in the northeast of the city. It was not known how the four died.
Police are withholding the names [...]
