The Northville Township Board of Trustees will ask residents to approve a millage so it can purchase most of the 414-acre former Northville Regional Psychiatric Hospital for $23.5 million and preserve much of it as parkland.
The property owned by REIS Northville was the focus of an annexation controversy last year when REIS sought to have the property annexed to Livonia in hopes of getting approval for an $800-million commercial and residential Read the rest of this entry »

The battle over finding The Women’s Community a new home could be over.
Aspirus Wausau Hospital announced Monday that it will give The Women’s Community 2 acres at the corner of Hilltop Drive and 32nd Avenue, west of the hospital.
Aspirus leaders were moved by the difficulties The Women’s Community encountered earlier this year when residents objected to a proposed 20,000-square-foot shelter on Campus Drive, said Duane Erwin, the health system’s Read the rest of this entry »

The owner of a 6.7-acre parcel in Coconut Grove, where a
partnership planned to build high-rise condos, has pulled the plug on the project.
Mercy Hospital President and CEO John C. Johnson on Wednesday said the sale of the land to the partnership “will not be moving forward.”
The hospital also said in a statement that it will ask the city of Miami to return the land to its original government/institutional zoning.
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VINELAND — Officers seized a number of vehicles and found pit bulls and drugs in a Dante Avenue home where a cocaine dealer was shot Tuesday, Vineland police said Thursday.
Police are still investigating the Tuesday night shooting of a city man in the 2600 block of Dante Avenue.
Vineland police Detective Lt. Tom Ulrich said Thursday there weren’t any suspects, but police took vehicles and applied for additional search warrants as part of the Read the rest of this entry »

BEIJING (AP) — Two Labrador retrievers — in uniforms and special leather shoes — started work this week as part of China’s first drug-sniffing dog unit to board airplanes, state media said Wednesday.
The dogs, named Weite and Haige, boarded a plane from the United Arab Emirates on Monday, the official Xinhua News Agency said, on their first seat-sniffing mission. If a dog smells traces of drugs on a seat, authorities are able Read the rest of this entry »

ORLANDO, FL — No trespassing signs were placed where the remains of 3-year-old Caylee Anthony were found more than a week ago.  The investigators and forensic scientists have cleared the scene and even though the area brings a steady flow of onlookers to the area they are not allowed to wander through the lot. 
Even with the signs, it didn’t stop hundreds from placing memorials and flowers near the site.  Several dropped by to honor the little Read the rest of this entry »

HEARD THIS ONE?
Derrick Rose, in addition to being the first pick of the 2008 NBA draft, was previously best known as the guy who fell ill the day before the NCAA championship game because of a diet consisting of Gummy bears, Starburst and Twizzlers.
But the Chicago Tribune reports that the Bulls rookie one-upped himself over the weekend when he needed 10 stitches in his left arm after cutting it on a knife … while eating an apple in bed. “I Read the rest of this entry »

Trinity Health announced Monday it has purchased land in southwest Minot to serve as a potential site for a new hospital and medical park.
The 50-acre plot was purchased from Dakota Acres Property and is located a few hundred yards west of the Minot Family YMCA along 37th Avenue Southwest.
“There was a major emphasis to do it now, so we could acquire a large chunk of land,” said Terry Hoff, CEO of Trinity Health.
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NEW
DELHI: The government plans to impose an imprisonment of atleast 10 years and a
huge fine for manufacturing and selling spurious drugs. The bill to amend the
Drugs and Cosmetics Act 2005 is likely to be tabled in the winter session of
Parliament, sources said.
It
is learnt that the guilty may have to pay Rs 10 lakh or three times the value of
the drugs confiscated, whichever is more. Besides, the punishment may be
extended to life-time
imprisonment.
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Land for the long-anticipated hospital for Central Florida veterans was acquired Thursday by the Department of Veterans Affairs.
The 65-acre parcel in southeast Orlando will house the $656 million, 314-bed VA facility, one of the crown jewels in a 600-acre “medical city” at
being pieced together by the Tavistock Group. The purchase price for the property was about $39 million, said Barry Stanley, spokesman for the Orlando VA Medical Center.
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