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Police knew of child in ‘murdered mom’s’ car
Police with guns drawn surround Miriam Carey on Oct. 3, 2013 WASHINGTON – A former member of the Secret Service Uniformed Division has revealed he heard a radio transmission inform officers there was a child in the car of Miriam Carey before officers shot her to death. The former officer told the Carey family attorney…
‘Emerging Diseases’ takes on MERS, Ebola, more
Whooping cough, smallpox, measles and tuberculosis, once enough to send American communities into paroxysms of fear through their very mention, are essentially exterminated, right? And the U.S. is largely protected from exotics like Ebola, Chikungunya, Chagas disease, Dengue fever and others by distance and time, correct? Not really, as Jane Orient, M.D., explains in the…
‘You hurt a lot of people, but I forgive you’
Dylann Roof A magistrate judge in South Carolina has set bond at $1 million on a weapons charge for a 21-year-old man suspected of murdering nine people during a church meeting on Wednesday – but the hearing had shades of revival meeting embedded as family members of the victims used a victims’ impact statement time…
Those Who Shape Us, the Lives We Touch
By Sandy Ikeda Earlier this month, my 67-year-old sister, Virginia Ikeda, “Ginger” to me and my family, died peacefully after a long illness. I rarely write here about my personal life, let alone family matters. But I feel moved to share some thoughts on Ginger’s passing with you because of the impact she had on…