Date: April 21st, 2008
21 April, 2008 (21:52) | Bad Cops, Good Cops Gone Bad, News | No comments
ATLANTA (AP) Jury selection is scheduled to start in the case of an Atlanta police officer who is charged in the cover-up of the police killing of a 92-year-old woman.
Arthur Tesler was one of the officers on the scene as Kathryn Johnston was shot during a surprise raid on her house based on wrong information […]
21 April, 2008 (21:47) | Bad Cops, Good Cops Gone Bad, News | No comments
A second day of jury deliberations will get under way today in the trial of an ex-police officer accused of repeatedly raping an underage relative and molesting a girl who was a member of a police ride-along program.
The former officer, a 37-year-old former Desert Hot Springs police officer, is charged with molesting the now-18-year-old relative […]
21 April, 2008 (21:34) | Medicine, News | No comments
PORTAGE, Wis. — A 9-year-old Portage girl who has had cancer for more than half her life just found out she has a third type of cancer.
Emily Miller was diagnosed with acute lymphocytic leukemia in 2002, overcame it in 2005 and was in remission until April of last year when she was diagnosed with […]
21 April, 2008 (21:11) | Medicine, News | No comments
SANTA ANA, Calif. — A medical malpractice lawsuit filed by the family of an Orange County girl who was revived after doctors allegedly declared her dead in 2003 is scheduled to go to trial on Monday.
Mackayla Jespersen was 20 months old when she fell into a swimming pool at her family’s Fullerton home on […]
21 April, 2008 (21:02) | News, Parents Behaving Badly | 1 comment
A pediatrician testified Friday that injuries inflicted on a 2-year-old Warren boy are among the worst he has ever seen and nearly equates to torture by his alleged assailant, his mother.
“There was a repetitive infliction of pain for discipline, almost a torture scenario,” Dr. Marcus DeGraw of St. John Hospital and Medical Center in Detroit […]
21 April, 2008 (17:52) | News, Weird & Strange, new hampshire | No comments
KEENE, N.H. — A student’s attempt to float over a 4-foot dam in a kiddie pool had him holding on for his life when he got trapped in the churning water current below.
The Boston Globe reported Keene firefighters were able to grab Keene State College student Alex Perry, 19, of Westborough, Mass., as he sank […]
21 April, 2008 (17:47) | News, Politics, new hampshire | 2 comments
CONCORD, N.H. — Embattled Superior Court Judge Patricia Coffey has resigned.
Coffey was suspended for three years by the state Supreme Court on Friday. Gov. John Lynch had called for her resignation, and on Monday, he received a letter of resignation from her.
“I was disappointed in the decision by the New Hampshire Supreme Court because of […]
21 April, 2008 (17:44) | News, new hampshire | No comments
LANCASTER, N.H. — After a day-long search rescuers found the body of 27-year-old Randy Brewer just before 7 o’clock Sunday evening in the Israel River.
Lancaster fire officials said Brewer dove in the river Saturday evening to help a struggling 11-year-old with a cast on his arm.
The boy made it to shore, but the 38-degree river […]