performed Thursday (Oct. 9) at the Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s
Hospital at Vanderbilt in Nashville while hosting a small party for the young patients and their families. With their record
label, Lyric Street, being owned by Disney, they also brought along several characters, including Cinderella, Snow White and
Mickey and Minnie Mouse. “Fast Cars and Freedom” and “What Hurts the Most” were among the songs the trio performed. Following
the party, Read the rest of this entry »
Couple find future dim as health care costs rise, home value falls
(EDITORS: This is another in the McClatchy Washington Bureau’s series “Fallout on Main Street,” a look at how Americans are coping with the economic crisis.)
QUAKERTOWN, Pa. – These are scary times for David and Karen Hammerschmidt.
Like most Americans, they’re improvising their way through the economic downturn.
When cash was short, they rented out their two guest bedrooms. Read the rest of this entry »
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yesterday. The company said it would eliminate a quarter of the jobs at its San Diego headquarters — that’s about 340 people. The move is part of an effort to slash expected cash expenditures by $80 million in 2009.
“Sales revenues have not met the expectations we had when we scaled up our organization,” the company’s CEO Daniel M. Bradbury said in a statement. “Today’s actions will bring operating expenses Read the rest of this entry »
The annual event celebrates 20 years of community involvement encouraging kids to say no.
MISSION VIEJO – They walked the walk and talked the talk.
Classes, team, and families banded together for Mission Viejo’s Walk Against Drugs on Saturday morning. It’s an event the community celebrates each year to kick off National Red Ribbon Week.
The crowd was led by horseback-riding Orange County sheriff’s deputies for two miles from Mission Viejo Read the rest of this entry »
Federal prosecutors continued to build their case Friday in the drug and racketeering trial of three alleged Crips gang members by focusing on two 2004 search warrants that they say tied two of the defendants to guns and drugs.
A U.S. District Court jury first heard details of a Sept. 16, 2004, warrant executed at 1332 N. Volutsia. Wichita police said they seized an assault rifle, two handguns, crack cocaine and a set of digital scales in that raid. Read the rest of this entry »
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SIOUX FALLS, South Dakota, October 31 /
/ – The South Dakota State Medical Association (SDSMA)
issued a statement late today demanding that the Campaign for “Healthy Families”
(CHF) stop using the SDSMA name in recorded calls being distributed throughout
South Dakota this afternoon. VoteYesForLife.com learned this evening that the
SDSMA has requested that the CHF admonish their callers Read the rest of this entry »
UNIONDALE, N.Y. (AP) — Injured
defenseman Chris Lee flew back to New York on Tuesday morning after being hospitalized overnight in Florida following a hard hit in a preseason game against the Panthers.
Lee was removed from the ice on a stretcher with 11:02 left in the third period of the Islanders’ 6-0 loss after being checked into the boards from behind by Rostislav Olesz.
The 28-year-old defenseman underwent a series of tests at Broward General Read the rest of this entry »
and the manufacturer not answering, FDA seized the contaminated heparin. This past Thursday, FDA sent US marshals to seize 11 lots of the heparin drug. Heparin is a blood-thinning drug.
is the company who distributes heparin to medical devise and drug manufacturers nationwide and internationally.
that were imported the United States. They were contaminated with oversulfated chondroitin sulfate. Close to 250 deaths and hundreds of severe allergic Read the rest of this entry »