PORTLAND, Maine (AP) _ The top cop in Maine’s largest city says drugs are fueling an increase in crime.
Joseph Loughlin, acting chief in Portland, says crack cocaine and heroin are back “in a big way.” And he says it’s becoming harder for Portland police to keep up with all the crime because there are fewer officers on the streets.
Tuesday’s briefing was arranged in response to three recent high-profile crimes, including the fatal shooting of Read the rest of this entry »
— An East Naples woman was arrested Thursday after Collier County sheriff’s deputies say she sold drugs to undercover deputies three times.
Susan Elvira Castillo, 47, 1390 Wildwood Lakes Blvd., Apt. 3, was charged with trafficking opium or a derivative, selling opium or a derivative, possession of opium or a derivative with intent to sell, sale of drugs, and possession of drugs with intent to sell.
Reports say Castillo sold drugs including Read the rest of this entry »
A Somerville woman was arrested and charged with murder in the stabbing death of her boyfriend yesterday, said Corey Welford, a spokesman for Middlesex District Attorney Gerry Leone. Police arrested Kimberly C. Savini, 30, after responding to reports of a stabbing on Greenville Street about 2:30 p.m. Her boyfriend, Arnaldo Amado, 42, was unresponsive and suffering from an apparent stab wound when police arrived. Amado was taken to Massachusetts General Read the rest of this entry »
DALLAS, Jan. 22 — Low-carbohydrate diets may lead to increased fat burning and more efficient use of glucose precursors, investigators here concluded.
Obese and overweight patients lost twice as much weight during two weeks of carbohydrate restriction compared with calorie counting, Jeffrey Browning, M.D., of the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, and colleagues reported online in
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The observation came from a small clinical study Read the rest of this entry »
A Jordanian field hospital will deploy in the Gaza Strip on Monday to help those wounded during Israel’s 22-day military offensive that ended a week ago.
The 210 doctors, nurses and other staff will cross into Israel together with 33 trucks laden with supplies through the Allenby Bridge and then enter northern Gaza via the Erez crossing.
On Sunday, humanitarian aid, including fuel, continued to enter the Strip through the Kerem Shalom, Nahal Oz Read the rest of this entry »
MADRID (AFP) — Spanish golf legend Severiano Ballesteros is conscious and talking to his family after undergoing three operations last month to treat a brain tumour, the hospital caring for him reported on Monday.
“Ballesteros continues to evolve favorably. He is conscious, is breathing spontaneously and can talk with his family,” Madrid’s La Paz hospital said in a statement, adding the 51-year-old had begun rehabilitation treatment in the Read the rest of this entry »
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Would you take a drug made from the milk of a genetically modified goat? A committee of expert advisers to the FDA will take a swing at that question, weighing the safety and effectiveness of such a treatment on Friday. The U.S. drug regulator is seeking advice on whether to approve an application from Framingham, MA-based GTC Biotherapeutics, a company aiming to prove that the drug it makes in goats, an anti-clotting agent, should be the Read the rest of this entry »
Deekron 'The Fitness DJ' Launches New Workout Music Podcast, Motion Traxx, Setting The Pace For 2009
Free fitness music podcast motivates, inspires, and boosts energy for running and exercise with fast-tempo, high-quality dance music
New York, NY (
) January 28, 2009 — One of the country's leading specialists in workout music, Deekron 'The Fitness DJ', has launched a new fitness music podcast called Motion Traxx. The Read the rest of this entry »
THE equation was simple. Put together women, jokes, beer, football and a hefty dose of irreverence, and you will hook men’s eyeballs.
This was the magic formula for men’s magazines, spearheaded by the category called ‘lad’s mags’.
Positioned between more staid fashion magazines and soft porn rags, the lad mag was unstoppable in the 1990s.
But now it seems the spell has been broken.
On 24 Oct, SPH Magazines announced that Maxim would cease Read the rest of this entry »
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