PRINTABLE PAGE US Govt. to Make Nursing Home Quality Data Public Originally published by Reuters Health, November 20, 2001 WASHINGTON — As of next April, residents of five US states will be able to access information on the quality of…
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PRINTABLE PAGE Outrage Over Four-Year Plea Deal in Long Island Sex-Torture Case By Brad Hunter and Leonard GreeneOriginally published in the New York Post, November 25, 2001 Victims groups have slammed the four-year jail sentence given to Long Island kink…
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PRINTABLE PAGE Grand Jury Indicts Whitinsville Man By Telegram & Gazette StaffOriginally published in the Worcester Telegram & Gazette, June 16, 2001 NORTHBRIDGE — A Worcester County grand jury yesterday returned an 80-count indictment against Peter M. Gagnon, the 48-year-old…
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PRINTABLE PAGE Girl X Settles With CHA for $3 Million By Art Golab, Staff ReporterOriginally published in the Chicago Sun-Times, April 18, 2002 Toya Currie, the 15-year-old known as Girl X, who was raped, beaten, strangled, poisoned and left for…
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PRINTABLE PAGE Golfer Charged With Animal Cruelty Originally published by The Associated Press, June 29, 2001 WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — A golfer was charged with animal cruelty for beating an exotic black swan to death with a driver…
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PRINTABLE PAGE Abused Bronx Girl’s Stepdad Charged With Murder By Melissa Grace and Alice Mcquillan, Daily News Staff WritersOriginally published in the New York Daily News, November 23, 2001 The stepfather of a 7-year-old girl who died a virtual prisoner…
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PRINTABLE PAGE Deputy Fired Over Friendship in Boys’ Murder Case Originally published by The Associated Press, March 24, 2002 PENSACOLA — A sheriff’s deputy was fired because of his friendship with a convicted child molester charged with harboring two juvenile…
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PRINTABLE PAGE New U.S. Slave Trade: Trafficking in Women By Joel Brinkley, New York Times ServiceOriginally published in the International Herald TribuneApril 3, 2000 WASHINGTON — As many as 50,000 women and children from Asia, Latin America and Eastern Europe…
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PRINTABLE PAGE Sugar Water, Pacifier Help Newborns Endure Pain Originally published by Reuters Health, July 9, 2002 NEW YORK (Reuters Health) — Sugar water followed by a pacifier can ease the pain of a routine heel prick test for newborns,…
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PRINTABLE PAGE AIDS Is South Africa’s Biggest Killer Originally published by Reuters Health, October 17, 2001 CAPE TOWN (Reuters Health) — South Africa’s Medical Research Council (MRC) challenged President Thabo Mbeki’s stance on AIDS on Tuesday, saying the disease accounted…