The Apple co-founder, who is 53, was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in 2003 but has said he was cured with surgery. As The Times reported Dec. 17, however, “Appearances over the summer, in which Jobs looked unusually thin and drawn, renewed questions about his health.”
Rumors flared again this month after Apple said Jobs wouldn’t deliver the keynote address at January’s Macworld Conference & Expo, the venue the company has used for more than a Read the rest of this entry »
– Two former Bay Area employees of a nationwide chain of gyms claim they were retaliated against when they complained about discrimination in the workplace, and now state and federal agencies have backed them up.
Both Reggie Allison and Paul Drobot complained about racism in the workplace at the 24-Hour Fitness Centers where they worked. They claim that racial slurs were used on and off the job, and minorities were discriminated against in hiring Read the rest of this entry »
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. government has increasingly relied on food-safety inspections performed by states, where budgets for inspections in many cases have remained stagnant and where overburdened officials are trained less than their federal counterparts and perform skimpier reviews, an Associated Press investigation has found.
The thoroughness of inspections performed by states has emerged as a key issue in the investigation of the national Read the rest of this entry »
A San Luis Obispo man was arrested late Friday after police say he sold cocaine and Ecstacy to undercover officers at a downtown nightclub.
David Michael Lamberson, 36, was arrested about 11:30 p.m. in the 700 block of Higuera Street. Officers from the San Luis Obispo County Narcotics Task Force, who arrested Lamberson after a two-month investigation, said he had been selling the drugs at clubs in downtown San Luis Obispo.
Officers served a search Read the rest of this entry »
Providers Can Share Protected Health Information In Treating Patients’ Family Members, OCR Says
“permits but does not require” a health care provider to disclose a patient’s protected health information to another physician treating a family member of the patient, according to a statement from the Office for Civil Rights,
reports. OCR on Tuesday posted the explanation on its Web site in a
providing answers to a series of frequently asked questions. Read the rest of this entry »
At a hearing today, D.C. Superior Court Judge Frederick H. Weisberg read from a letter written by a St. Elizabeths psychologist who said Jacks has “factual and rational understanding” of the court proceedings and the charges against her. Weisberg set Jacks’s jury trial for July 13. Her next hearing was set for Feb. 6.
Jacks, 34, is charged with killing her four daughters, ages 5, 6, 11 and 16.
Tension between Jacks and her court-appointed attorneys Read the rest of this entry »