Updated with further details at 4:30 p.m.
A San Bernardino criminal defense attorney was arrested on suspicion of accepting guns and drugs in exchange for his legal services, authorities said.
Gary Stephen Redinger, 59, who once ran for Superior Court judge, was arrested last Wednesday morning after a search of his house turned up suspected methamphetamine and more than 30 firearms, according to San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Deputy Donald Read the rest of this entry »
The island city of Galveston and other areas along the Gulf of Mexico coast in Texas and Louisiana are struggling to begin their recovery from Hurricane Ike, which struck late last week. As VOA’s Greg Flakus reports from Houston, Texas, people who remain in some stricken areas without clean water or sewage systems could face major health risks.
Texas Governor Rick Perry has called them “knuckleheads,” but the several thousand people who defied evacuation Read the rest of this entry »
Taipei, Dec. 31 (CNA) The Bureau of National Health Insurance (BNHI) has decided to appropriate a fund of NT$100 million (US$3.05 million) to open clinics at elementary schools in remote villages that suffer from a lack of medical facilities.
A BNHI medical affairs management official said Wednesday that there are currently 53 mobile medical teams circulating among remote villages around Taiwan offering medical treatment.
Every year Read the rest of this entry »
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – The fugitive Indiana pilot who was found Tuesday evening in a Florida campground likely would have died of blood loss from a slit wrist if U.S. marshals hadnt captured him when they did, a U.S. Marshals Service spokesman said today.
Marcus Schrenker, a financial advisor wanted in connection with a fraud investigation involving millions of dollars, fled from authorities in Alabama Sunday evening after apparently trying to fake Read the rest of this entry »
(November 26, 2008)
INGLESIDE–In San Patricio County, a 77-year-old man gets busted for dealing prescription drugs to high school students. Authorities got a tip he was selling drugs in his neighborhood. After a three-month undercover operation, they caught him in the act.
In this plush Ingleside neighborhood, 77-year-old Dave Lassiter looks like a nice old man, who is very ill, but investigators said his looks are deceiving. They said he was Read the rest of this entry »
Conclusions of a U.S. study recommending that the HIV-positive people
begin taking antiretroviral drugs sooner than has been practiced
to date has been well received by AIDS activists in Zimbabwe, where something like one in five adults are estimated to have been infected, but the government is not ready to act on the findings.
The study found that “delaying treatment until a
patient’s immune system is badly damaged almost doubles the risk of Read the rest of this entry »
If he takes cocaine 24 hours later, when deemed “in competition’’, a two-year
ban awaits. This inconsistency screams out to be corrected.
Applying new tests laid down by the World Anti-Doping Agency, the fabulous
beaker boys from UK Sport will be visiting more footballers more frequently
from July 1.
UK Sport’s crusade should, of course, be welcomed even if football is not
afflicted by the drug epidemic that Read the rest of this entry »
PHARR — Local authorities were none too surprised to learn this week that a 30-pound brick of marijuana had been mistakenly delivered to a Denton man direct from the Rio Grande Valley.
The package – addressed to a nonexistent Dallas location – originated from the UPS shipping outlet at 120 E. Highway 83 in Pharr and traveled through McAllen, Austin, Mesquite and Dallas before its mistaken delivery Monday, Denton police spokesman Ryan Grelle said. Read the rest of this entry »