Kleybanova, 22, announces she’s undergoing cancer treatment
Alisa Kleybanova is spending her 22nd birthday in Italy receiving treatment for cancer. The Russian tennis player, who reached a peak of No. 20 in the WTA rankings earlier this year, revealed in a letter written to her fans that she’s battling Hodgkin’s lymphoma. Despite her ongoing treatment and uncertain prognosis, Kleybanova strikes an uplifting, hopeful tone in her note. Hello everyone It …
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Hugo Chavez ‘to travel to Brazil for cancer treatment’
Hugo Chavez, the Venezuelan president, will travel to Brazil for cancer treatment as he continues his battle to overcome the disease, a Brazilian government source said.
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Woman allegedly driving drunk to liquor store charged with dragging daughter with car
STAMFORD — A city woman was arrested Thursday after police say she dragged her daughter with her car while allegedly drunkenly driving to a liquor store.
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Alleged rape victim ‘too drunk to move’
A model, who has accused Andrew Lovett of rape, has told a court she was so drunk she was unable to move.
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Woman Faces Drunk Driving Charge; Allegedly Found Driving With Child, 8, Inside Car
Get Traffic Mobile Text Alerts State police on Thursday arrested a woman allegedly found driving drunk on Hennequin Road with her 8-year-old son in the car.
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Drunk-driving deaths drop by half in B.C. under strict new .05 law
VANCOUVER – For police officers, it’s one of the worst jobs: knocking on strangers’ doors, telling them their loved ones have been killed by drunk drivers.
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Oversight may put Barre drinking water at risk
Drinking water is at risk in Barre if a dam fails. It was severely damaged by flash floods. Barre City has limited funds to deal with the damage, and a misstep in the emergency funds application process may have left the city’s sole water source in jeopardy– and the city with no help to fix it.
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Texas cattle dying after drinking too much water
LUBBOCK, Texas (AP) — Cattle across drought-stricken Texas are dying after drinking too much water. Agriculture officials said Wednesday that there are no hard numbers for this latest impact in Texas’ worst drought in decades, but reports are on the rise across the nation’s leading cattle producing state. Producers are losing cattle after moving them from withered pastures where water tanks …
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Broken Pump Prompts Need To Boil Water Before Drinking
What is described as a breakdown in disinfection has brought about the need for some people to boil their water before drinking it, officials announced Wednesday.
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Rodney King has lengthy record of legal troubles since infamous LAPD beating
Rodney King, who was arrested in Moreno Valley on suspicion of driving under the influence this week, has a long history of legal trouble since he was beaten by Los Angeles police in an infamous videotaped incident in 1991.
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New study confirms key risk factors for heavy drinking among adolescents
A low level of response (LR) to alcohol is one of several genetically influenced characteristics that may increase an individual’s risk for heavy drinking and alcohol problems. A new study has confirmed key elements of a LR-based model of risk through examination of a large sample of adolescent boys and girls in the United Kingdom, moving beyond smaller U.S.-based samples and to younger subjects.
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Betty Ford’s son talks about his mother’s love
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) – Steve Ford told mourners at a memorial service in Grand Rapids for former first lady Betty Ford that his mother was always there for him and his three siblings.
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Betty Ford’s son talks about his mother’s love
Steve Ford told mourners at a memorial service in Grand Rapids for former first lady Betty Ford that his mother was always there for him and his three siblings.
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Most wanted caught in West Virginia
WATERLOO — A Waterloo woman who disappeared with her daughters while awaiting trial on a drunken driving charge has been captured in West Virginia, and her children have been found safe.
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Crash results in 2 DUI arrests
A drunken driver drifted into a bike lane and hit a drunken cyclist Wednesday on Commercial Street SE, police said.
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Facebook party to hit German city
A German city is bracing for a mass drunken party organised via Facebook on its metro system in September.
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Local and state briefs 7-13
Police arrested 27 for suspected drunken driving Police arrested 27 drivers for suspected drunken driving between July 4 and Sunday; seven were involved in traffic accidents and five were younger than 21. Police have made 756 suspected DUI arrests this year compared with 797 during the same period in 2010. South Hilo officers arrested 17 drivers and Kona officers caught six, while Puna officers …
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Woman admits to driving drunk, killing motorist
MOUNT CLEMENS — A 20-year-old Royal Oak woman admitted to killing a Richmond woman in a drunken driving crash last winter in Sterling Heights.
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Breathalyzer debate could affect Ottawa County cases
A municipal court judge said readings from the Intoxilyzer 8000 are admissible as evidence in drunk-driving cases, but attorneys can now use experts to challenge errors in specific readings.
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P.G. driver gets 20 years in 2010 double fatality
A Prince George’s County woman who killed two men while driving drunk last year was sentenced Tuesday to 20 years in prison. Jenny Mate, 32, was sentenced in county Circuit Court after pleading guilty in May to two counts of vehicular manslaughter — stemming from the February 2010 deaths of …
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Kenner mayor suspends code director for DWI arrest
Kenner Mayor Mike Yenni has placed Inspection and Code Enforcement Director Keith Chiro on indefinite suspension without pay in connection with a drunk driving arrest over the weekend. Brett Duke/The Times-PicayuneKeith Chiro Chiro was booked Sunday afternoon with DWI, hit-and-run…
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TX Police: Grandpa drove drunk with kids on roof
Huntington Police Chief Bobby Epperly Jr. says police received a call around 9:30 p.m. of a man driving a Toyota SUV with two girls on the roof.
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Deputy: Drunk driver had invalid license
 A Spring Hill man whose license has been suspended since 2006 is behind bars after driving a scooter and committing a traffic violation, all while driving under the influence, authorities say.
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Teen girls’ brains hit harder by booze
BINGE drinking can have a long-lasting negative effect on the brains of teenaged girls, hitting them harder than it does young boys, a study shows.
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Teen girls’ brains hit harder by booze
BINGE drinking can have a long-lasting negative effect on the brains of teenaged girls, hitting them harder than it does young boys, a study shows.
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Teen girls’ brains hit hard by binge-drinking: study
Binge-drinking can have a long-lasting negative effect on the brains of teenaged girls, hitting them harder than it does young boys, a study released Friday shows.
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Report: 9 Jail Inmates A Year Mistakenly Freed
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) – A newspaper study found that 28 Marion County Jail inmates were mistakenly released during a three-year period. The Indianapolis Star reports Saturday that about nine inmates a year were improperly released from 2008 through 2010, mostly due to paperwork problems or human error. The 28 had been in jail on charges ranging from drunken driving to robbery. Most were caught …
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Prosecution rests in punishment phase of intoxication manslaughter trial
The mother of the 21-year-old killed in an April 2009 drunken-driving accident took the stand Wednesday to testify against the Sunset man responsible for her son’s death. After calling on over 20 witnesses in two days, prosecutors rested their case …
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Caught on Camera: Murder in public glare
A youth was fatally beaten up in a drunken brawl by his four friends in full public glare in Coimbatore city — an act which was recorded in a close-circuit camera leading to the arrest of the culprits.
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Final farewell set for Thursday for former first lady Betty Ford
A final service will be held Thursday for former first lady Betty Ford in Michigan, where she will be laid to rest.
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Allakaket man shot during drinking party; 5 people arrested
Updated 12:19 a.m. Friday FAIRBANKS – Five people were arrested and one was hospitalized with a shotgun wound after an illegal drinking party in Allakaket early Wednesday morning, according to A…
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Daniel Baldwin says his divorce filing is attempt to get wife into treatment
PORTLAND, Ore. – Actor Daniel Baldwin said Friday that his decision to file for divorce says nothing about how he feels about his wife, but it’s an attempt to encourage her to get treatment for alcoholism.
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Final farewell set for Thursday for former first lady Betty Ford
A final service will be held Thursday for former first lady Betty Ford in Michigan, where she will be laid to rest.
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Hilton brother to compensate drunk driving victim
Barron Hilton, younger brother of US socialite Paris Hilton, was ordered by a California court to pay almost $ 4.9 million to a gas station attendant he struck while driving intoxicated, the victim’s attorney said.
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Woman allegedly driving drunk to liquor store charged with dragging daughter with car
STAMFORD — A city woman was arrested Thursday after police say she dragged her daughter with her car while allegedly drunkenly driving to a liquor store.
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Nearly half of college grades are A’s, study finds
The old bell curve no longer looks like a bell. It’s lopsided now. College grades are so inflated that A’s make up 43 percent of all letter grades given at colleges and universities.
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Broken Pump Prompts Need To Boil Water Before Drinking
What is described as a breakdown in disinfection has brought about the need for some people to boil their water before drinking it, officials announced Wednesday.
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8 die in Ecuador after drinking bootleg alcohol
Authorities in Ecuador say at least eight people have died and 11 more are sick after drinking adulterated alcohol.
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Banishing alcohol made Jonathan Trott mainstay of England batting
London, July 16 : England batsman Jonathan Trott has admitted that drinking made him “go nuts” and giving up alcohol made helped him become a mainstay of the England side since 2009.
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Woman Faces Drunk Driving Charge; Allegedly Found Driving With Child, 8, Inside Car
Get Traffic Mobile Text Alerts State police on Thursday arrested a woman allegedly found driving drunk on Hennequin Road with her 8-year-old son in the car.
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Woman Faces Drunk Driving Charge; Allegedly Found Driving With Child, 8, Inside Car
Get Traffic Mobile Text Alerts State police on Thursday arrested a woman allegedly found driving drunk on Hennequin Road with her 8-year-old son in the car.
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Prohibition and Templeton Rye
Years ago, one of my police friends stopped me on the street and asked if I had ever made wine. He went on to tell me that Dick Ruback at Ruback’s Grocery had a quantity of grapes that were getting over-ripe.
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Bundelkhand: Debt kills 519 farmers in 5 months
Bundelkhand, July 15 : Over 500 farmers have killed themselves in the last five months amid mounting debts, treacherous weather and the greed of corrupt government officers in Central India’s most impoverished region, Bundelkhand.
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Atlantic Beach prepares smooth tunes for its first jazz festival
The smooth, mellow sounds of jazz will be sailing through the air in Atlantic Beach this weekend during its first-ever jazz festival called Jazz on the Beach.
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Israel opens Jesus baptism site in West Bank
Israel opened the traditional baptism site of Jesus to daily visits Tuesday, a move that required the cooperation of Israel’s…
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‘Golden Compass’ one of 2007′s worst
There has been much controversy leading up to Friday’s release of ‘The Golden Compass,’ a movie some Christian groups view as an assault on their religion.
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30 Ways To Enrich Your Business With Words
Words change the world. They inspire, unite, direct, empower and prompt action. They also discourage, divide, anger, misguide, confuse and mislead. Empires, governments, businesses, relationships and careers rise and fall because of words.
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When you’re homophobic – quietly
Dear Margo: I am a 19-year-old college student. Though not politically correct, I disapprove of homosexuality. Most people don’t know I feel this way. I have no problem with gay people. I have a few close friends and many more acquaintances who are gay,…
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Moral progress and animal welfare
Reducing the suffering of all creatures is truly a mark of a civilised society.
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‘End of the Spear’ compelling, incomplete missionary story
Sure, that’s smart, poke it with a stick. “End of the Spear” is a movie produced by a religious-based company, Every Tribe Productions / publicity photo
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Of Church and politics: Najib’s visit to the Vatican
The Power, The Papacy and The Prime Minister’s Plot ought to be a retro movie in the Cold War era or the stuff of which the series of ‘Vatican Conspiracies’ are made of. But strangely, it also describes Prime Minister Najib Razak’s visit to the Vatican next week, which has generated much interest among the local Catholics as Malaysia has never initiated any diplomatic ties with the Vatican. The …
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