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Mom of decapitated baby: 'I didn't mean to do it'
Wed, 29 Jul 2009 09:10 pm PDT
 AP - A Texas mother accused of decapitating her 3-week-old son screams "I didn't mean to do it. He told me to!" while her sister pleads for an ambulance to bring help in a desperate four-minute 911 call released Wednesday. Full Story | Top |
Dozens arrested in Medicare fraud busts across US
Wed, 29 Jul 2009 07:31 pm PDT
 AP - Federal authorities arrested more than 30 suspects, including doctors, and were seeking others in a major Medicare fraud bust Wednesday in New York, Louisiana, Boston and Houston, targeting scams such as "arthritis kits" — expensive braces that many patients never used. Full Story | Top |
Girl Sees Fine With Half a Brain
Mon, 27 Jul 2009 08:30 am PDT
LiveScience.com - A 10-year-old girl from Germany has had quite a normal life despite the fact that she was born with only half her brain. Even more surprising, she has almost perfect vision in one of her eyes. Now, scientists have figured out why. The girl's brain rewired itself - likely in the womb - so that it's able to process information from both the right and left fields of vision even though she is missing the right brain hemisphere, which failed to develop while she was in the womb. The child's case is the only one of its kind known in the world, researchers said. ... Full Story | Top |
Mosquitoes deliver malaria 'vaccine' through bites
Wed, 29 Jul 2009 09:13 pm PDT
 AP - In a daring experiment in Europe, scientists used mosquitoes as flying needles to deliver a "vaccine" of live malaria parasites through their bites. The results were astounding: Everyone in the vaccine group acquired immunity to malaria; everyone in a non-vaccinated comparison group did not, and developed malaria when exposed to the parasites later. Full Story | Top |
Deal with 'Blue Dogs' sets up health care vote
Wed, 29 Jul 2009 01:05 pm PDT
 AP - After weeks of turmoil, House Democrats reached a shaky peace with the party's rebellious rank-and-file conservatives Wednesday and cleared the way for a vote in September on sweeping health care legislation. Full Story | Top |
Dems warn GOP of backlash for opposing Sotomayor
Wed, 29 Jul 2009 09:24 pm PDT
 AP - The Senate debate over Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor turned bitter Wednesday, after Democrats warned the GOP it would pay a steep price for opposing the judge who would be the first Hispanic justice, and a top Republican charged they were playing destructive racial politics. Full Story | Top |
Lefevre `stunned' Howard has her role in `Eclipse'
Wed, 29 Jul 2009 07:54 pm PDT
 AP - Bryce Dallas Howard is taking over as the villainous vampire Victoria in the third "Twilight" movie, and the actress who's played the part in the first two films says she was "stunned" and "hurt deeply" by the switch. Full Story | Top |
Jackson chef recalls doctor's role, final days
Wed, 29 Jul 2009 02:33 pm PDT
 AP - On the day Michael Jackson died, his personal chef says her first hint of something amiss was when his doctor didn't come downstairs to get the juices and granola he routinely brought the King of Pop for breakfast each morning. Full Story | Top |
House Republicans unveil $700B health care plan
Wed, 29 Jul 2009 01:27 pm PDT
 AP - House Republicans on Wednesday unveiled a $700 billion health care plan that would offer tax credits to help people buy insurance, yet unlike Democratic proposals, wouldn't require either individuals or employers to get coverage. Full Story | Top |
Sybil the Downing Street cat dies
Wed, 29 Jul 2009 07:57 am PDT
 AFP - Sybil the cat, who moved into Downing Street shortly after Prime Minister Gordon Brown took office two years ago, has died after a short illness. Full Story | Top |
Seattle breaks temp record as heat wave continues
Wed, 29 Jul 2009 09:26 pm PDT
 AP - Northwesterners more accustomed to rain and cooler climate sought refuge from a heat wave Wednesday, as Seattle recorded the hottest temperature in its history and Portland fell just 1 degree short of its own record-breaker. Full Story | Top |
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