BEIJING – China’s drug regulator ordered a nationwide recall of a hemorrhoid medicine Wednesday because of concerns it may cause liver problems in the latest drug problem to hit the country. The State Food and Drug Administration said in a statement on its Web site that it had ordered Vital …
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ST. PAUL, Minn. – It was a Big N’ Tasty burger and one trip to jail to go for a woman suspected of DWI in St. Paul. Police say 26-year-old Erica Toy Marie Ballard pulled into a McDonald’s drive-thru with squad car lights flashing and sirens blaring behind her. Ballard …
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DES MOINES, Iowa – The first person to be convicted under Iowa’s human trafficking law was sentenced Monday to 25 years in prison. Leonard Russell was found guilty of two counts of human trafficking, two counts of pandering and a count of ongoing criminal conduct during a September trial in …
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CHICAGO – Authorities say an off-duty Chicago police officer shot and critically injured his two children before taking his own life. Chicago police didn’t identify the officer involved in Monday’s shootings, saying only that he was 31 years old and had been on the force for four years. Police spokeswoman …
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CLAYMONT, Del. – Delaware authorities charged a woman with plotting the real-life abduction of a boyfriend she met through the virtual reality Web site “Second Life.” Kimberly Jernigan, 33, originally of Durham, N.C., was returned to Delaware to face charges including attempted kidnapping after she was arrested in Maryland last …
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – Haitians were told to prepare for evacuations as Tropical Storm Gustav formed quickly Monday in the Caribbean on a path to hit — as a hurricane — the country’s denuded southern coast before moving on to Cuba, the Bahamas and Florida. Haiti upgraded storm warnings to hurricane …
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NEW YORK – Two former high school classmates of disgraced NBA referee Tim Donaghy were both sentenced to more than a year in prison Thursday for their roles in a betting scandal that embarrassed the league. A federal judge in Brooklyn gave James Battista, a professional gambler and admitted drug …
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WASHINGTON – Tobacco companies deliberately changed the menthol levels in cigarettes depending upon who they were marketing them to — lower levels for young smokers who preferred the milder brands and higher levels to “lock in lifelong adult smokers,” U.S. researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health found. The …
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YORK, Neb. – A York College wrestler was killed Friday and some of his teammates were injured in a van crash en route to a meet in Iowa. School officials said the van carrying 10 wrestlers and two coaches flipped on Interstate 29 near Onawa, Iowa, about 4:30 p.m. No …
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VANCOUVER, British Columbia – Canadian police on Sunday disputed claims by the U.S. drug czar that organized crime rings in Canada are dumping dangerous, methamphetamine-laced ecstasy into the United States. John Walters, who heads the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy, recently released a statement warning public health …
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