Research questions daily dose of aspirin for healthy people

By Calvin Palmer
Turn 50 and your doctor is likely to tell you to take a low-dose aspirin every day to help prevent heart attacks and strokes.
Now research presented at the European Society of Cardiology Congress, in Barcleona, suggests it may do more harm than good in healthy people.
A new study, partially funded by the British [...]

Arrest linked to mass killing at mobile home park

By Calvin Palmer
A man who called 911 to report seven people killed and two others critically injured in a mobile home near Brunswick, Georgia, has been arrested.
Guy Heinze Jr, 22, of Brunswick, was charged with with drug possession and making false statements to police.
Glynn County Police Chief Matt Doering would not say if Heinze is [...]

Seven bodies found in mass killing at mobile home park

By Calvin Palmer
Seven people were today found murdered and two others critically at a mobile home near Brunswick, Georgia, in what police describe as the area’s worst mass killing in 25 years.
The bodies were found at the New Hope Plantation a few miles north of the port of Brunswick after a family member called 911 [...]

Killing of two Virginia Tech students a random act, say police

By Calvin Palmer
The murder of two Virginia Tech students in a parking area in the Jefferson National Forest was yesterday described by authorities as “a random act”.
The bodies of David Lee Metzler, 19, of Lynchburg and Heidi Lynn Childs, 18, of Forest, were found on Thursday morning by a man walking his dog on Thursday [...]

Two men convicted of gang rape and assault of mother and son

By Calvin Palmer
Two Florida men were today convicted of the gang rape and assault of a West Palm Beach mother and her young son.
Tommy Poindexter, 20, and Nathan Walker Jr, 18, were found guilty of sexual battery, burglary and kidnapping and face multiple life sentences.
The men were tried together with separate juries and will be [...]

Doctor admits he drugged patient to ‘get rid of her faster’ after Katrina

By Calvin Palmer
A doctor’s frank admission that he drugged a terminal patient to “get rid of her faster” at a New Orleans hospital without power and surrounded by floodwater after Hurricane Katrina will not result in a reopening of the investigation into allegations of euthanasia.
Dr Ewing Cook said, in a report to be published on [...]

Suspect arrested in shooting deaths of four people in Atlanta suburb

By Calvin Palmer
Police arrested a man this morning in connection with the shooting deaths of four people in a suburb of Atlanta.
Richard Ringold, 44, was arrested when he returned to the crime scene in the Claridge Crossing subdivision near Lawrenceville. A warrant for his arrest was issued last night.
Ringold has been charged with four counts [...]

Dutch girl’s hopes of sailing solo around the world suffer legal setback

By Calvin Palmer
A 13-year-old Dutch girl’s hopes of becoming the youngest person to sail solo around the world were dashed today when a panel of judges ruled she placed into temporary care.
The three judges at Utrecht District Court described Laura Dekker’s proposed voyage as “undeniably daring and risky” and their ruling stops her from setting sail next [...]

Coulter continues her comedy of errors

By Calvin Palmer
Ann Coulter is devoting her energies to demonizing the healthcare reforms of President Barack Obama, but true to form her fulminations result in a comedy of errors.
Her column, as usual, is aimed at the uneducated and uniformed. Anyone with half a brain quickly realizes that Coulter suffers from verbal diarrhea and her column contains [...]

Mexican spirit of enterprise follows message of Reagan’s Berlin Wall speech

By Calvin Palmer
A group of Mexicans in Tijuana have followed the words of late President Ronald Reagan but are now under arrest.
During a 1987 speech at the Brandenburg Gate, in Berlin, President Reagan implored Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, “Tear down this wall!”
Reagan was referring to the Berlin Wall that separated East and West Berlin, a [...]