Inquiry into patient drug deaths

17 people hospitalized at Cow Palace concert
(10-30) 15:28 PDT DALY CITY -- Seventeen people who attended a concert Friday night at the Cow Palace in Daly City were hospitalized for apparent Overdoses of drugs and Alcohol - the latest trouble at the state-owned venue. Emergency medical crews from San Francisco, Santa Clara and Alameda counties responded to San Mateo County's mutual aid request after reports came in of multiple Victims at the large event, Robyn Thaw, spokeswoman for the San Mateo County Health System, said Saturday. The v...

17 people hospitalized at Cow Palace concert
(10-30) 15:28 PDT DALY CITY -- Seventeen people who attended a concert Friday night at the Cow Palace in Daly City were hospitalized for apparent Overdoses of drugs and Alcohol - the latest trouble at the state-owned venue. Emergency medical crews from San Francisco, Santa Clara and Alameda counties responded to San Mateo County's mutual aid request after reports came in of multiple Victims at the large event, Robyn Thaw, spokeswoman for the San Mateo County Health System, said Saturday. The v...

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...

Woman wounded in Greek mail bomb blast
AP A women was wounded after a package exploded at a private delivery company in Athens on Monday, while two other suspected bombs were destroyed by controlled blasts in the capital, Police officials said. The two men suspected of taking part in the attacks were arrested, Police said. They were carrying Handguns, wigs, and one of them was also wearing a bulletproof vest, they said. Advertisement: Story continues below State-run NET television reported that two of the parcels had been addres...

Baghdad Church Siege Ends With Dozens Dead
Iraqi security forces stormed a Baghdad Church where Militants had taken an entire congregation hostage for four hours, leaving at least 52 people dead, including a priest, Iraqi officials said Monday. It was not immediately clear whether the hostages died at the hands of the attackers or during the rescue late on Sunday night in an affluent neighborhood of the capital. The incident began when Militants wearing Suicide vests and armed with grenades attacked the Iraqi Stock Exchange at dusk Sunda...

Baghdad Church Siege Ends With 52 Dead
BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraqi security forces stormed a Baghdad Church where Militants had taken an entire congregation hostage for four hours, leaving at least 52 people dead, including a priest, Iraqi officials said Monday. It was not immediately clear whether the hostages died at the hands of the attackers or during the rescue late on Sunday night in an affluent neighborhood of the capital. The incident began when Militants wearing Suicide vests and armed with grenades attacked the Iraqi Stock...

Baghdad church siege ends with 52 dead
Stumble This! Bloody siege of Baghdad Church ends with at least 52 dead, mostly Christians. Iraqi security forces stormed a Baghdad Church where Militants had taken an entire congregation hostage for four hours, leaving at least 52 people dead, including a priest, Iraqi officials said Monday. It was not immediately clear whether the hostages died at the hands of the attackers or during the rescue late on Sunday night in an affluent neighborhood of the capital. The incident began when Militants...

Sarkozy, embassies targets of letter bombs
AP A mail bomb addressed to the Mexican Embassy exploded at a delivery service in central Athens on Monday, burning one worker. Two Greek men were arrested nearby carrying pistols and mail bombs, one addressed to French President Nicolas Sarkozy, Police said. A bomb in a package addressed to the Dutch Embassy was seized at another Athens delivery company. Advertisement: Story continues below Greek authorities said one of the men is suspected of belonging to Conspiracy Nuclei of Fire, a dome...

Car plows into SD home, sending 1 to hospital
San Diego — San Diego Police say one person was injured when a vehicle slammed into a house early Monday. San Diego Police Officer Jane Jacobsen says the crash occurred just before 2 a.m. in the La Jolla area. She says the driver of the vehicle fled on foot. A San Diego Fire-Rescue dispatcher says one person was hospitalized. She didn't know how serious the injuries were and couldn't confirm that person was a passenger in the car. Two people were treated by Paramedics for minor injuries...

Joe Robinson: Overwork S.O.S.: Increase Your 'Worth Ethic' and Save Your Health
Open the top desk drawer at workstations around the land, and it's like you're at the drug counter at CVS. Inside, there's a treasure trove of pharmaceuticals to get folks through the working day: Tylenol, Tums, Xanax, Paxil. Work is making us sick, and it's something we should all be sick of. When I do work-life balance workshops at companies and organizations, I meet folks who, out of earshot of peers and supervisors, share a medical blotter of Health Problems. At an aviation company, one g...

Car plows into SD home, sending 1 to hospital
San Diego — San Diego Police say one person was injured when a vehicle slammed into a house early Monday. San Diego Police Officer Jane Jacobsen says the crash occurred just before 2 a.m. in the La Jolla area. She says the driver of the vehicle fled on foot. A San Diego Fire-Rescue dispatcher says one person was hospitalized. She didn't know how serious the injuries were and couldn't confirm that person was a passenger in the car. Two people were treated by Paramedics for minor injuries...

All Clear For WFP
Working Families Party spokesman Dan Levitan sent out an e-mail this morning to update supporters about last night’s White Powder incident at the labor-backed party’s Brooklyn HQ, which caused the NYPD to shut down Nevins Street and required the Evacuation of the office for several hours at the height of pre-election crunch time. Six Staffers of the WFP and/or its for-profit arm, Data and Field Services, including political director Bill Lipton (that’s him on the Far Right in ...

Medics Called To Friday Harbor School After Choking Game Incident
FRIDAY HARBOR, Wash. -- Medics were called to Friday Harbor Middle School on Tuesday after a Student passed out during a choking game incident, school officials said. In a letter to parents from Friday Harbor Middle School principal Fred Woods, Woods said the game involves one Student choking another in an attempt to get the sensation of nearly passing out and many Students have reported that the game takes place often in other locations where friends get together. Woods said an ambulance was ca...

'127 hours' causing some audiences to faint
Published: Oct. 31, 2010 at 7:20 PM James Franco arrives on the Red Carpet before the screening of a digitally restored version of the 1960 classic Film "La Dolce Vita" during the 5th Rome International Film Festival in Rome on October 30, 2010. UPI/David Silpa Los Angeles, Oct. 31 (UPI) -- The forearm amputation central to the plot of the upcoming Film "127 Hours" has caused some early screening audiences to faint, a studio executive said. "I would prefer that people not pass out -- i...

Will Durst: Don't Vote
Don't Vote. You don't have to. No one's going to make you. This isn't the Soviet Union. You won't be forced from your beds and dragged to the polls against your Wills. Relax. Take a chill pill. Let it go. It'll all be fine without you. Things are pretty good the way they are, aren't they? Well, okay, some stuff could be better. Then again, could be worse. If it ain't broke, don't fix it. And if it is broke, leave it alone; who knows, maybe it'll fix itself. Or let someone who knows what they'r...

Florida Mom Alexandra Tobias Pleads Guilty to Murdering Baby for Crying During Her FarmVille Game
© Jacksonville Sheriff's Office Alexandra Tobias told police that she shook her baby son repeatedly because his crying distracted her from playing FarmVille, the popular Facebook game. A Florida woman admitted shaking her 3-month-old baby to death after the little boy's crying distracted her from playing a wildly popular Facebook game. Alexandra Tobias, 22, told cops she was playing FarmVille and her baby, Dylan Lee Edmondson, wouldn't stop crying. According to the Florida Times-Union, ...

Tom’s River, NJ turns out under the stars
A crystal clear night when you could see your breath!  One lone star in the sky and hundreds more on fluttering flags marked tonight’s rally  in Tom’s River where some 400 or so patriots came out to encourage and be encouraged.  We put on a show and had a ball.  Even George Washington was pleased! It was no trick on this Halloween night that New Jerseyites turned out in droves to treat us to a warm reception!  Among those in the crowd - Fabrizio Bi...

Use of racial slur aired in cop's shooting death trial
John Stanson, one of the First Officers to arrive at the Rue Versailles apartment building in Oak Park, where his colleague, Mason Samborski lay dying of a gunshot wound to the head, uttered the Slur, caught on taped radio transmissions as Paramedics and Police tried to load Samborski into a waiting ambulance.. The tape was played earlier this week in Oakland County Circuit Court for the jury hearing the case. Jonathan Belton, 17, who is African Americ...

Police seek hit and run driver in Van Nuys pedestrian injury
Los Angeles police are looking for a driver who struck a Pedestrian in Van Nuys early Saturday morning and fled.  The Victim, an 18-year-old man, was walking on Vanowen Street just west of Noble Avenue when what was possibly a white Nissan Maxima or Infiniti four-door sedan hit him and drove away, police said. Paramedics took the man to a local Hospital, where he was listed in serious condition. Anyone with information is asked to call detectives at the Valley Traffic Divisio...

Florida mom Alexandra Tobias pleads guilty to murdering baby for crying during her FarmVille game
© Jacksonville Sheriff's Office Alexandra Tobias told police that she shook her baby son repeatedly because his crying distracted her from playing FarmVille, the popular Facebook game. A Florida woman admitted shaking her 3-month-old baby to death after the little boy's crying distracted her from playing a wildly popular Facebook game. Alexandra Tobias, 22, told cops she was playing FarmVille and her baby, Dylan Lee Edmondson, wouldn't stop crying. According to the Florida Times-Union,...

Will Durst: Don't Vote
Don't Vote. You don't have to. No one's going to make you. This isn't the Soviet Union. You won't be forced from your beds and dragged to the polls against your Wills. Relax. Take a chill pill. Let it go. It'll all be fine without you. Things are pretty good the way they are, aren't they? Well, okay, some stuff could be better. Then again, could be worse. If it ain't broke, don't fix it. And if it is broke, leave it alone; who knows, maybe it'll fix itself. Or let someone who knows what they'r...

Oak Park officer admits to slur on tape
John Stanson, one of the First Officers to arrive at the Rue Versailles apartment building in Oak Park, where his colleague Mason Samborski lay dying of a gunshot wound to the head, uttered the Slur, caught on taped radio transmissions as Paramedics and Police tried to load Samborski into a waiting ambulance. The tape was played earlier this week in Oakland County Circuit Court for the jury hearing the case. Jonathan Belton, 17, an African American, is...

Dying woman's call to operator was outsourced
In an era of increasingly complex communications systems, the Tragic Death of a South Florida grandmother is a jarring reminder of gaps in the nation's emergency response system that can hamper rescuers and jeopardize lives. Alone, hysterical and bleeding after an accident in her kitchen near Boynton Beach, the 81-year-old Sidell Reiner dialed zero and pleaded for help. The Call was answered by a "Comcast Call Center," according to police recordings. But Reiner wasn't talking to a Comcast opera...

Tens of Thousands at Rachel's Tomb
Tens of thousands of Jews visited Rachel's Tomb on Monday night and continued to flock to the site throughout the day on Tuesday. Tuesday was the 11th day of Cheshvan, the Yartzheit (anniversary of death) of the biblical matriarch Rachel, whose tomb is located on the road from Bethlehem to Efrata where she died, rather than in Hevron where the other three matriarchs are buried with their husbands. The Jews prayed at her tomb on their way to the first exile in Babylonia after the Holy Temple's d...

'127 hours' causing some audiences to faint
Published: Oct. 31, 2010 at 7:20 PM James Franco arrives on the Red Carpet before the screening of a digitally restored version of the 1960 classic Film "La Dolce Vita" during the 5th Rome International Film Festival in Rome on October 30, 2010. UPI/David Silpa Los Angeles, Oct. 31 (UPI) -- The forearm amputation central to the plot of the upcoming Film "127 Hours" has caused some early screening audiences to faint, a studio executive said. "I would prefer that people not pass out -- i...