17 people hospitalized at Cow Palace concert

Booze puts one Briton in hospital every 7 minutes
One person every seven minutes is admitted to Hospital for a Health Problem directly attributed to Alcohol. It marks an astonishing 54 per cent rise over the past decade, as the scale of Labour’s binge-drink legacy is laid bare. And the startling figures do not even come close to reflecting Alcohol’s full impact on the NHS because they exclude conditions that are merely exacerbated by drink, such as Diabetes and most types of Heart Disease. The figures from the NHS Information Centr...

16 reportedly hospitalized during Daly City event
DALY CITY, CALIF. — State Sen. Leland Yee is blasting what he calls a lack of Law Enforcement and emergency personnel at the Cow Palace after 16 people were reportedly hospitalized during an event. The injuries at the Daly City venue apparently occurred at a Halloween concert on Friday sponsored by Live 105. It was not clear what the Victims were hospitalized for or their conditions. Daly City Police had not released any information by mid-Saturday afternoon. No one answered the phone a...

Cartel Spillover? Beheading in Phoenix Has Police Worried
CHANDLER, Ariz. (AP) — The gruesome case of a man who was stabbed and beheaded in a suburban Phoenix apartment has Police investigating whether the killing is potentially the most extreme example of Mexican Drug Cartel violence spilling over the border. Martin Alejandro Cota-Monroy’s body was found Oct. 10 in a Chandler apartment — his severed head a couple feet away. One man suspected in the killing has been arrested, and a Manhunt is under way for three others. Detectives are...

City, NYPD Sued In Brooklyn Girls Asthma Death
Briana Ojeda, 11, died after suffering an asthma attack in Brooklyn. (credit: CBS 2) NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) - The family of 11-year-old Briana Ojeda has filed suit against the city after an NYPD Officer allegedly refused to administer CPR to their daughter, who later died at an area Hospital. Civil Rights Attorney Bonita Zelman says the Ojeda family wants $17 million in damages from the city, the NYPD, NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly, and Officer Alfonso Mendez, who stopped Briana and her mothe...

Inquiry into patient drug deaths
Two patients have died from suspected drug Overdoses at a psychiatric unit on Merseyside. Paramedics were called to Taylor ward at the Peasley Cross unit, in St Helens, at 0500 BST on Friday. The men, aged 25 and 36, were pronounced dead. A third man, 30, is being examined as a precaution. Merseyside Police and the Five Boroughs Partnership NHS Foundation Trust are investigating. Neither would comment on the nature of the drugs. Nick Rowe, a director at the trust, said the patients were found in...

Alcohol vs. Marijuana
Alcohol is one of the Most Toxic drugs, and using just 10 times what one would use to get the desired effect can lead to death. Marijuana is one of – if not the – least Toxic drugs, requiring thousands of times the dose one would use to get the desired effect to lead to death. This “thousands of times” is actually theoretical, since there has never been a recorded case of marijuana Overdose. Source: The American Scientist (Magazine of Sigma Xi, the Scientific Research Society...

Jack Conway campaign ad accuses Rand Paul of being soft on crime
Accusing your opponent of being soft on Crime is pretty standard Campaign fare, but Kentucky Democrat Jack Conway -- a Candidate for U.S. Senate -- takes things one step further in a Campaign video, using a two-year-old quote from Republican opponent Rand Paul to suggest Paul wants to decriminalize everything from Drug dealing and Burglary to Prostitution. It then cuts to an image of Bernie Madoff with the question, "Should Wall Street Fraudster Bernie Madoff not be in jail?" A uniform...

Shakira attacks Arizona immigration law
guardian.co.uk, Friday 30 April 2010 10.10 BST Controversial Legislation ... Shakira Protests Arizona Immigration Law in Phoenix. Photograph: Joshua Lott/Reuters Shakira has joined the chorus of opposition to Arizona's new Immigration law. President Obama has questioned its legality, Linda Ronstadt has called for its Repeal, the band Stars have called for a Boycott, and now the Grammy award-winning Colombian singer has visited Phoenix to discuss the Controversial Legislation with the city's...

Theodore Sorensen, Former Speechwriter for President Kennedy, Dies at 82
In this Dec. 26, 1962 file photo, President John F. Kennedy meets with presidential council adviser Theodore Sorensen and other members of his staff in Palm Beach, Fla., regarding his 1963 Tax Cut proposal. NEW YORK -- President John F. Kennedy's aide and Speechwriter, Theodore C. Sorensen, a symbol of hope and liberal governance, died at a Time of contempt for Washington and political leaders. Sorensen's passing Sunday came just as supporters of his friend and boss were preparing to celebrate t...

Tomas seen regaining power, pose threat to Haiti
KINGSTOWN, St. Vincent (AP) — No longer a Hurricane, Tropical Storm Tomas swirled over warm Caribbean waters early Monday and forecasters warned it is likely to regain power and pose a threat to the crowded quake Refugee Camps in Haiti. With maximum sustained winds of 65 mph (100 kph), Tomas slipped under the threshold for a Hurricane Sunday evening. The U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami predicted more weakening before it begins to strengthen again around midweek. At that point, Toma...

Theodore Sorensen, Top JFK Aide, Dies at 82
Like this Story? Share it: Former Special Counsel and Speechwriter to President Kennedy Theodore C. Sorensen poses for a photo as he attends the Partnership For Public Service 2nd Annual Gala on June 28, 2004, at the Waldorf-Astoria, in New York City. (Paul Hawthorne/Getty Images) (AP) Theodore C. Sorensen, the studious, star-struck aide to President John F. Kennedy whose crisp, poetic turns of phrase helped idealize and immortalize a tragically brief administration, died Sunday. He was 82. He...

Self-blaming abused linked to PTSD
Published: Nov. 1, 2010 at 12:06 AM GRANADA, Spain, Nov. 1 (UPI) -- A Spanish researcher says self-blaming Abuse Victims are more likely to resort to avoidance coping -- behaviors that prevent confronting a problem. Canton Cortes of the University of Granada in Spain and colleagues at the University of Cambridge in England says aspects of avoidance coping behavior -- sleeping more than usual, avoiding thinking about the problem, or resorting to Alcohol and drug Abuse -- were also more likely fou...

UPDATE on Squeezing out Tailgaters & the ‘Men In Black’
    After some more probing and information from reliable inside sources the COFFIN CORNER Tailgate and I have found out some rather disheartening news. The NFL (No Fun League) claims that The Coffin Corner (as well as the two other larger and well-known tailgates: Illegal Motion and Pinto Ron) are an “event within an event,” which the NFL believes promotes drunkenness and rowdy behavior. Therefore, the NFL is putting into place some ...

Port Chester Westmore News: Mayor arrested for drunk driving
Log in above for full coverage, or subscribe now! See video of mayor’s public admission at westmorenews.com. Yes, it’s true. Mayor Dennis Pilla was arrested on a DWI charge. He confirmed the rumor that was circulating at the Port Chester-Rye Brook Chamber of Commerce dinner dance last Friday night, first to the Westmore News and then Monday in a public statement at the tail end of the Port Chester Board of Trustees meeting. It happened on June 17 when the mayor was Driving back from...

I am Not a Fashionista!
When I came out in 1969 I lived in a commune on Grayson Street in Berkeley.  It was in the distinctly unfashionable industrial area a couple of blocks west of San Pablo Ave. I was a hippie and dressed in free or thrift store clothes.  While I had a couple of dresses and skirts I wore jeans a lot.  Bell bottoms were hip in those days. I didn’t fit in with the sisters I met in San Francisco.  They were into clothes and Fashion.  They thought me strange because my mak...

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NEWARK, N.J., Oct. 29 (UPI) -- U.S. President Barack Obama said Friday two suspicious packages containing explosive material shipped from Yemen were addressed to Chicago synagogues. The packages were spotted at Airports in Birmingham, England, and the United Arab Emirates late Thursday and prompted alerts at U.S. Airports that resulted in plane searches at Newark, N.J., and Philadelphia, as well as searches of UPS trucks in New York. Obama said the packages were believed sent by al-Qaida in the ...

The Enemy Next Door
The Mexican drug wars have become an old story. Media of all types have given extensive coverage to the battles between and among criminal gangs and federal Police and Military. Nonetheless, the Obama Administration has continued a policy of avoiding recognition of the danger of the open warfare that exists immediately south of the United States border with Mexico. The federal and State Governments of Mexico have reacted quickly to deny commentary that challenges their commitment to enforcing l...

One killed, three injured in weekend city shootings
Shootings in the city over the weekend left one man dead and three people wounded, according to police. Darryle Smith, 30, of the 5800 block of North Marshall Street, was pronounced dead at Aria Health-Torresdale Campus at 2:58 a.m. Sunday. Police said Smith and a woman, 28, were walking in the 1600 block of Pratt Street when they got into a dispute with a man who then fired a gun at them and fled. The woman, whose name was not immediately available, was in stable condition with a shoulder wound...

Chemical Valley health issues prompt lawsuit against Queen’s Park
Published Monday, Nov. 01, 2010 3:00AM EDT An embattled first nations community situated in the heart of Ontario’s Chemical Valley will announce a landmark Lawsuit Monday morning targeting the province’s role in long-standing Health Problems throughout the town and neighbouring city of Sarnia. Residents of the Aamjiwnaang First Nation will join lawyers and scientists from Ecojustice – formerly the Sierra Legal Defence Fund – in launching the legal action at Queen’s ...

1 man dead, 1 wounded in West Englewood shooting
One man was shot dead and another wounded late Sunday night in the West Englewood neighborhood on the city's South Side. The shooting happened shortly after 10 p.m. on the 6900 block of South Wolcott Avenue, said Police News Affairs Officer Hector Alfaro. Officers responded to the scene and found a 22-year-old man fatally shot with a head wound, Police said. Another man, 31, was shot in his back and also suffered a graze wound to his hip. Preliminary reports said one of the Victims was argu...

Vatican Protest Of Sexual Abuse Stopped By Italian Police (VIDEO, PHOTOS)
Italian Police blocked Victims of Catholic priest Sexual Abuse from protesting near the Vatican on Sunday, the AP is reporting. The demonstration was originally planned for inside the Vatican, but the Victims were denied permission from the Holy See. The Protesters left letters to The Pope at the edge of St. Peter's Square after being stopped by Italian paramilitary Police, according to CNN. This is the first Protest by Victims of Sexual Abuse by Catholic priests to be held so close to the Va...

No link between club brawl, death
A Lawrence man was fatally wounded outside a Nightclub early yesterday morning while watching a brawl between women clubgoers that spilled out onto a city street, Police said. Christopher Pleas, 30, was shot at about 1:30 a.m. on Essex Street while eyeballing the battle, according to Lawrence Police Chief John Romero. But the shots don’t appear to have been directly related to the fighting women. “It appears he was the intended target,” Romero said. “But we have nothing ...

Two girls missing from hospital
Two vulnerable teenage girls have gone missing from a Mental Health Hospital in East Sussex. Sussex Police said Sophie McCarron, 13, of Folkestone, Kent, and Eva Sloka, 16, of Southend, Essex, went missing together on Tuesday. The pair were both voluntary patients of The Priory Hospital in Ticehurst, officers said. Eva is being treated as vulnerable by Police because of her age. Sophie is in need of medication. Det Sgt Gavin Patch said the pair were seen together in Southend the day after they d...

Slaying occurs during gathering honoring man killed last year
A man is dead and six others were wounded -- four critically -- when shots rang out early Sunday at a Woodlawn neighborhood bar during a family gathering honoring the life of a man killed last year about this time. Police said the shooting happened about 1:50 a.m. inside Inflation Lounge on the 540 block of East 63rd Street when an argument started at a private party and at least one person started shooting. The lounge has a private room in addition to the bar. A family had closed down the es...

Drug business as usual
As Californians get ready to vote on Proposition 19, which would legalize the individual possession of small amounts of marijuana for recreational use, one area of debate is what effect passage would have on the illegal Drug business here and in violence-torn Mexico. I can't predict the future, but I can say a little about narco-trafficking, having covered it off and on over four continents since the early 1990s. Traditionally, the bulk of the United States' marijuana has come from Mexico; even ...