Police say they discovered nearly two ounces of cocaine and marijuana in the trunk of a vehicle occupied by three men and an infant, after pulling the vehicle over for going up to 7 mph over the speed limit on Interstate 91 early Wednesday morning.
Police said the driver, Tyler Holmes, 19, of Springfield, along with two passengers from Springfield, Mass., were taken into custody on individual felony charges of possessing more than an ounce of cocaine Read the rest of this entry »
State funding for a program that monitors water contamination in San Mateo County’s creeks and beaches has been cut by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, a loss health officials say could lead members of the public to come into contact with water containing dangerously high levels of E. coli.
County officials learned of the $35,000 budget cut this week as part of a million-dollar line-item veto the governor exacted on the state’s entire ocean water-quality Read the rest of this entry »
Firefighters, council members and city employees zipped up San Jose City Hall’s 18 stories Wednesday morning for the annual stair challenge.
Tying together fitness and public safety, the first wave of stair-climbers was a crew from San Jose’s Fire Station No. 1, dressed in their gear and walking up the steps as they would during a fire. Before they left, Battalion Chief Kevin Conant addressed the crowd and praised City Hall’s fire-prevention features. Read the rest of this entry »
Marc Turnesa completed a wire-to-wire victory for his first PGA Tour title, closing with a four-under 68 on Sunday in Las Vegas to hold off Matt Kuchar (64) by a stroke in the Justin Timberlake Shriners Hospitals for Children Open.
The fourth rookie to win on the PGA Tour this season, Turnesa opened with rounds of 62, 64 and 69 at TPC Summerlin en route to a tournament-record, 24-under 263 total. He earned a career-best $738,000 to jump from 138th Read the rest of this entry »
“He is doing well, and he is getting better every day,” said Clive Callender, the surgeon who led the team that transplanted a kidney into Barry (D-Ward Friday.
Kim Dickens, the 47-year-old kidney donor, visited him yesterday, said Barry spokeswoman Natalie Williams. Barry’s visitors are otherwise restricted to 24 people who are council members, staff workers, family and clergy.
— Hamil R. Harris
A Capitol Heights man was fatally shot Read the rest of this entry »
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President-elect Barack Obama has chosen his close confidant and former Senate Majority Leader Thomas Daschle to serve as secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, according to several sources close to the transition.
Daschle, a South Dakota Democrat, will also reportedly be given a policy portfolio that stretches beyond the department in order to help shepherd health-care reform legislation in 2009.
He will Read the rest of this entry »
But in the final three strokes, Fletcher could hear the roar of the crowd at the Freedom Aquatic & Fitness Center in Manassas. And he could see his teammates and friends jumping and cheering on the side of the pool.
Fletcher knew what that meant and let the adrenaline take over.
When he touched the final wall, the Michigan-bound senior heard silence, then looked up as the crowd roared: 47.08 seconds — Fletcher had broken the national high school Read the rest of this entry »
North Dakota health officials say they have found a flu strain in the state that resists the leading flu medicine. But they say there are other options for treating it.
Michelle Feist is the state influenza surveillance coordinator. She says the strain is not any more severe than others.
Government health officials alerted doctors in December that the most common flu bug in the country is overwhelmingly resistant to Tamiflu. Feist said the resistance Read the rest of this entry »
A sexier, slimmer you with the depression diet!
Much of the talk about the economy nowadays revolves around home foreclosures and bankruptcies, but now diet is starting to pull in some much needed attention. As we tighten our belts and look for ways to stretch our budgets even further, what are we eating?
“People are trying to save money in every way possible, and this extends to food,” said
. Drewnowski is director of the Center Read the rest of this entry »
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