Hurricane Ike Caused 3,800 Workers From a Hospital to Be Laid Off
Hurricane Ike Caused 3,800 Workers From a Hospital to Be Laid Off

The effects that Hurricane Ike had on Galveston can still be felt now. The University of Texas Medical Branch from Galveston was badly damaged by the strong winds and rain that Ike brought during this fall. Because the teaching hospital is running out of money, nearly 3,800 workers will be laid off. The next three months will be crucial for the hospital,...

Hurricane Ike Caused 3,800 Workers From a Hospital to Be Laid Off
 
 

Baby Killed In Texas Found To Have Cocaine in Blood Stream
An infant that died after falling down the eight-floor stairwell in Arlington, Texas had traces of cocaine in his system, according to an autopsy report. The boy, Joshua Thorne, died just before his second birthday, and although the baby had been exposed to the illegal narcotic, this was not the cause of death, according to the...

Baby Killed In Texas Found To Have Cocaine in Blood Stream

Truck Gets Run Over By Train
  A pickup truck was hit head on by a train on Thursday at about 8:46 am as the driver was trying to cross the railroad. Apparently, the man behind the wheel did not calculate his speed quite right and popped in front of the train just as it was passing. Passengers aboard the Whistler Mountaineer tourist train in West ...

Truck Gets Run Over By Train

Not Only Bad Mother but Also Bad Driver
Northern Indiana Commuter Transportation District's Hammond station has just made public a shocking video on Saturday caught by its surveillance cameras. The video shows a minivan speeding through the train stations’ parking lot trying to outrun a train. After tacking a closer look at the footage, behind the wheel of the...

Not Only Bad Mother but Also Bad Driver

North California under Smoke Cloud
After a spreading wildfire in Plumas County, vast smoke clouds are flooding the valleys surrounding the area. The fire has been burning for three days now and has yet to be contained. Plumas County's three-day-old “Moonlight fire” is burning in rugged terrain on a ridgeline bordering the Plumas and Lassen National...

North California under Smoke Cloud

American Mother Slashes Own Daughters’ Throats
 Jenifer Kukla is a 30-year-old mother that lived in Detroit with her two daughters, 8-year-old Alexandra and 5-year-old Ashley. She was just recently sentenced to jail after she murdered her two girls by slashing their throats claiming that she had heard the devil and that she did this because that was what the voice told her to...

American Mother Slashes Own Daughters’ Throats

Eerie Coincidence Gets Polish Novelist Bars
34-year-old Polish novelist Krystian Bala was sentenced to 25 years of jail for a murder that took place 5 years ago. Police found no evidence in 2000 that would lead to Janis-Zewski’s killer. The corpse was found 4 weeks after its disappearance, stripped to a shirt and underwear. It was fished out from the Oder River in Poland on...

Eerie Coincidence Gets Polish Novelist Bars

Workers At Minnesota University Go On Strike
More than two thirds (3500) of clerical, technical, and health workers went on strike Wednesday because of the bellow-standard wages they were receiving. Workers responsible for fixing computers, distributing paychecks, assisting dentists and veterinarians and many other employees are disappointed of the way they are being treated...

Workers At Minnesota University Go On Strike

USA Takes Unnecessary Nuclear Risk
According to government officials, the US Air force accidentally mounted hot nuclear warheads on the wings of a B-52 bomber that was getting ready for a 3-hour long flight on Wednesday. The Army Times backs up the story saying that the plane was traveling from Minot Air Force Base in North Dakota to Barksdale Air Force Base in...

USA Takes Unnecessary Nuclear Risk

Hurricane Henriette Cooling Down
After a weeklong rampage that was thought to end in Mexico, it appears that Hurricane Henriette is about to blow over. Henriette weakened slightly Tuesday when it reached the southern tip of Baja, a popular resort area for the likes of Hollywood stars and sport fishing enthusiasts. Henriette was on a direct crash curse with...

Hurricane Henriette Cooling Down

Popcorn, Potentially Dangerous
Broncheolitis obliterans, also known as “popcorn lung disease” is apparently a new kind of medical illness. The first consumer case of “popcorn lung” was discovered in Denver, Colorado, where a 53-year-old man who has been eating three bags of microwave popcorn a day for the past 10 years was rushed to the hospital after...

Popcorn, Potentially Dangerous
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It appears that U. S. President George W. Bush’s favorite general has been handed the task of winning the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan as well as confronting the...

General Petraeus Set for Central Command
 
 
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 Almost as soon as you set foot on the southern Mediterranean island of Crete the poignant smell of oregano, wild flowers and wild teas tickles your senses while the...

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