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A 43-year-old male from Kay County has died because of the virus.
The Supreme Court has ruled unanimously in a lawsuit involving an Oklahoma man that the current Iraqi government can't be held responsible in U.S. courts for the acts of Saddam Hussein's regime.
"Logrolling is multiple subjects in one bill," Fent said. "It violates the Oklahoma Constitution where each bill will have one subject. And the purpose of that constitutional provision is to prevent them from putting subjects that probably would fail with subjects that there is overwhelming approval for. They put them together so they can get the votes."
A decision by Falls Police to use a Taser to obtain a DNA sample from a suspect in an armed robbery, shooting and kidnapping is not unconstitutional.... "She's the first judge in western civilization to say you can use a Taser to enforce a court order...."
Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor last year accepted an invitation to join the Belizean Grove, an elite but little-known women's-only group. Founded nearly 10 years ago as the female answer to the Bohemian Grove — a secretive all-male club whose members have included former U.S. presidents and top business leaders — the Belizean Grove has about 125 members, including Army generals, Wall Street executives and former ambassadors.
Sonia Sotomayor told the Senate on Thursday that the White House never questioned her about cases or issues she might have to decide as a Supreme Court justice
The White House excuse she misspoke just fell apart! Not once, not twice, but lots of times! "I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would, more often than not, reach a better conclusion."
At Penn Hills High School this morning, Chief Burton said, a student was walking up and down a hallway, using a cell phone. School policy permits students to have cell phones but not to use them during school except in emergencies, Chief Burton said. A Penn Hills police officer told him to put the phone away and go to class. "The kid refused to listen," Chief Burton said. "The officer took him by the arm and said, 'You have to go to the office.' The student resisted, pushed the officer. The officer, defending himself, took out his stun gun and did a drive stun." Chief Burton said a drive stun involves pushing the Taser against a portion of the body and squeezing the trigger, thus immobilizing a portion of the body, such as the leg
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also referred to as Lou Gehrig's disease, is a form of motor neuron disease caused by the degeneration of neurons located in the ventral horn of the spinal cord and the cortical neurons that provide their afferent input.
after the boy's mother was tipped off by school employees, she checked her son's cell phone and found hundreds of calls and texts from Weber, the last text reading, "erase your phone."
Sonia Sotomayo: I warn Latinos in this room: Latinas are making a lot of progress in the old-boy network. ... ... America has a deeply confused image of itself that is in perpetual tension ... achieving success here is no easy accomplishment for Latinos or Latinas ... I wonder whether by ignoring our differences as women or men of color we do a disservice both to the law and society. ... I accept the thesis.... there is a diversity of opinion because there is both a diversity of experiences and of thought.... feminist theories of judging ... That same point can be made with respect to people of color. ... [Ethnicist, sexist, and racist... what a maroon.]
President Barack Obama's nominee to fill a Supreme Court vacancy has yet another tie to Connecticut. She sided against a student in the infamous "douche bag" case, and that has upset some free-speech advocates.
is listed as a member of the National Council of La Raza, a group that's promoted driver's licenses for illegal aliens, amnesty programs, and no immigration law enforcement by local and state police.
In making Sonia Sotomayor his first nominee for the Supreme Court yesterday, President Obama appears to have found the ideal match for his view that personal experience and cultural identity are the better part of judicial wisdom.
Newt Gingrich, Ann Coulter and Rush Limbaugh -- have taken to calling the Supreme Court justice nominee Sonia Sotomayor a 'racist,' with Gingrich even going so far as to ask her to withdraw. [And rightly so, despite the indignent Daily News tone]
A 62-year-old Singapore man was temporarily denied entry into the U.S. because a cancer drug he was taking had made his fingerprints disappear.... people being treated with Xeloda, described as an oral chemotherapy drug, should carry a letter from their doctor that they are taking the medication if they want to travel to countries that require fingerprints for identification. ...
questions about her temperament, her judicial craftsmanship, and most of all, her ability to provide an intellectual counterweight to the conservative justices, as well as a clear liberal alternative. ... The most consistent concern was that Sotomayor, although an able lawyer, was "not that smart and kind of a bully on the bench...."
Already, a few Republicans have cast doubt on Sotomayor's objectivity. And her history of decisions and opinions surely will raise more questions. ... Rep. Lamar Smith, R-Texas, in a written statement, said Tuesday he's concerned Sotomayor has shown "personal bias based on ethnicity and gender...." Sotomayor has a record of being rebuffed by the high court. Of the six decisions she was a part of that came before the high court, five were reversed. In the sixth, the court disagreed with Sotomayor's reasoning.
A judge ruled Tuesday afternoon that 13-year-old Daniel Hauser's parents could have custody of their son as long as they agree to treat his cancer with chemotherapy. Colleen and Anthony Hauser now say they understand their son needs chemotherapy. A doctor's exam showed the tumor, which is located in his chest, has grown and is pushing against his trachea, causing pain.
An olfactory receptor neuron (ORN), also called an olfactory sensory neuron (OSN), is a transduction cell within the olfactory system... Humans have about 40 million olfactory receptors that detect up to 10,000 different odorsneurons....
Billy Best ran away from home in Norwell, Mass., in 1994 to avoid chemotherapy, and today he offered conflicting words of support and opposition to Daniel and Colleen Hauser. The mother and son, who are from Minnesota, are now part of an international police search after they fled a judge's court-ordered chemotherapy Monday for Daniel.
Federal prosecutors have charged 147 members of a predominantly Latino street gang that has long ruled the streets of Hawaiian Gardens, a city of 14,000 east of Long Beach, with making racial attacks on African-Americans and drug dealing. Prosecutors said the Varrio Hawaiian Gardens gang, with approximately 1,000 members and associates, carried out racially motivated shootings to enforce its territory and to intimidate black residents.
A millionaire is selling his £16 million country house hotel and donating the entire proceeds to a cancer charity after his wife survived the illness.
This article is a list, including pictures, of the sixteen most horrific growths to appear on humans over the years
The case is closely watched because it could increase the cost of raising chickens and lead to higher meat prices.
Rising U.S. sales of acai, a purple Amazon berry promoted as a "superfood" on Oprah Winfrey's Web site, are depriving Brazilian jungle dwellers of a protein-rich nutrient they've relied on for generations.
The World Health Organization is investigating a claim by an Australian researcher that the swine flu virus circling the globe may have been created as a result of human error. ... may have accidentally evolved in eggs scientists use to grow viruses and drugmakers use to make vaccines ... came to his conclusion as part of an effort to trace the virus's origins by analyzing its genetic blueprint.
Cancel plans for that "swine flu party": a top US health official says deliberately trying to get infected with the A(H1N1) flu virus as protection against a future more virulent strain is a bad idea.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have confirmed a case of swine flu in Oklahoma, and testing is being done in Atlanta on four other suspected cases. ... a Pontotoc County woman....
Despite the common perception that total hip replacements last about 10 years, researchers at Rush University Medical Center have found that the devices are extremely durable, even 20 years after surgery.
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