 Army reviewing traumatic stress diagnostic practices
 22.03.2012 8:18  9 views  0 comments
 WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Army has started a system-wide review to ensure its mental healthcare facilities are not engaging in the "unacceptable" practice of considering treatment costs in making a diagnosis, Army Secretary John McHugh told a U.S. Senate hearing on Wednesday. Lieutenant General Patricia Horoho, the Army surgeon general, initiated the review in response to the discovery that hundreds of soldiers being treated for post-traumatic stress disorder had their diagnoses reversed after being seen by psychiatrists at the Madigan Army Medical Center in Washington state. ...
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Army reviewing traumatic stress diagnostic practices
22.03.2012 8:18 10 views 0 comments
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Army has started a system-wide review to ensure its mental healthcare facilities are not engaging in the "unacceptable" practice of considering treatment costs in making a diagnosis, Army Secretary John McHugh told a U.S. Senate hearing on Wednesday. Lieutenant General Patricia Horoho, the Army surgeon general, initiated the review in response to the discovery that hundreds of soldiers being treated for post-traumatic stress disorder had their diagnoses reversed after being seen by psychiatrists at the Madigan Army Medical Center in Washington state. ...
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Breakaway Mormon sect ex-leader begins Texas bigamy trial
22.03.2012 6:34 11 views 0 comments
MIDLAND, Texas (Reuters) - The former leader of a breakaway Mormon sect charged with being married to more than one woman at the same time went on trial in Texas on Wednesday, putting a spotlight on the rarely prosecuted crime of bigamy. A jury of five women and seven men was chosen to hear testimony in the trial of Wendell Loy Nielsen, 71, a former president of the polygamist Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints who is charged with three counts of bigamy. ... Read more »
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Breakaway Mormon sect ex-leader begins Texas bigamy trial
22.03.2012 6:34 11 views 0 comments
MIDLAND, Texas (Reuters) - The former leader of a breakaway Mormon sect charged with being married to more than one woman at the same time went on trial in Texas on Wednesday, putting a spotlight on the rarely prosecuted crime of bigamy. A jury of five women and seven men was chosen to hear testimony in the trial of Wendell Loy Nielsen, 71, a former president of the polygamist Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints who is charged with three counts of bigamy. ... Read more »
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Man arrested in Texas in smuggling scheme involving Craigslist
22.03.2012 4:31 8 views 0 comments
(Reuters) - A man suspected of using the online advertising site Craigslist to recruit drivers for a scheme to transport illegal immigrants in a Texas border area with Mexico has been arrested and faces people-smuggling charges, U.S. authorities said on Wednesday. José Gustavo Diaz-Velasquez, 29, was arrested last week in Rio Grande City following an investigation that began last year when immigration agents identified 10 Craigslist postings believed linked to the smuggling scheme, U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson said in a statement. ... Read more »
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Man arrested in Texas in smuggling scheme involving Craigslist
22.03.2012 4:31 11 views 0 comments
(Reuters) - A man suspected of using the online advertising site Craigslist to recruit drivers for a scheme to transport illegal immigrants in a Texas border area with Mexico has been arrested and faces people-smuggling charges, U.S. authorities said on Wednesday. José Gustavo Diaz-Velasquez, 29, was arrested last week in Rio Grande City following an investigation that began last year when immigration agents identified 10 Craigslist postings believed linked to the smuggling scheme, U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson said in a statement. ... Read more »
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Parents of slain Florida teen speak at New York rally
22.03.2012 3:46 9 views 0 comments
 NEW YORK (Reuters) - Trayvon Martin's mother on Wednesday told hundreds of protesters demanding an arrest in the shooting death of the unarmed Florida teen by a neighborhood watch captain that "this is not about a black and white thing. This is about a wrong and right thing." Sybrina Fulton spoke to demonstrators at what organizers called "A Million Hoodies March" at a New York park about her son's slaying last month by watch volunteer George Zimmerman in the gated community of Sanford, Florida. Martin was wearing a hoodie at the time of his death. ...
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Parents of slain Florida teen speak at New York rally
22.03.2012 3:46 10 views 0 comments
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Trayvon Martin's mother on Wednesday told hundreds of protesters demanding an arrest in the shooting death of the unarmed Florida teen by a neighborhood watch captain that "this is not about a black and white thing. This is about a wrong and right thing." Sybrina Fulton spoke to demonstrators at what organizers called "A Million Hoodies March" at a New York park about her son's slaying last month by watch volunteer George Zimmerman in the gated community of Sanford, Florida. Martin was wearing a hoodie at the time of his death. ...
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Florida police chief under fire in case of slain teen
22.03.2012 3:46 8 views 0 comments
ORLANDO, Florida (Reuters) - Florida politicians and civil rights leaders joined calls for the firing of a police chief in the case of a neighborhood watch captain who killed an unarmed black teenager, as new details emerged on Wednesday about police handling of the investigation. "The reality is that people in this community have lost faith in the police chief's ability to keep their children safe," Benjamin Jealous, president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), told Reuters. ... Read more »
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Washington state health officials appeal contraception ruling
22.03.2012 2:01 9 views 0 comments
SEATTLE (Reuters) - Washington state health officials asked an appeals court on Wednesday to reinstate a rule requiring that pharmacists dispense emergency contraceptives even when doing so violates their religious beliefs. District Judge Ronald Leighton blocked the regulation last month, finding it trampled on the pharmacists' right to "conscientious objection" in violation of the Constitution. ... Read more »
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Washington state health officials appeal contraception ruling
22.03.2012 2:01 9 views 0 comments
SEATTLE (Reuters) - Washington state health officials asked an appeals court on Wednesday to reinstate a rule requiring that pharmacists dispense emergency contraceptives even when doing so violates their religious beliefs. District Judge Ronald Leighton blocked the regulation last month, finding it trampled on the pharmacists' right to "conscientious objection" in violation of the Constitution. ... Read more »
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More sex abuse charges filed against former youth coach
22.03.2012 1:59 9 views 0 comments
CHARLESTON, South Carolina (Reuters) - A grand jury in South Carolina on Wednesday indicted Louis "Skip" ReVille, a former school principal and youth coach, on charges of child sexual abuse involving 11 more victims, bringing to 26 the number of alleged victims. The grand jury also charged him with more crimes involving 15 alleged victims mentioned in the original charges filed earlier this month. Some of those ReVille is accused of abusing were former campers at The Citadel military college in Charleston. ... Read more »
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More sex abuse charges filed against former youth coach
22.03.2012 1:59 9 views 0 comments
CHARLESTON, South Carolina (Reuters) - A grand jury in South Carolina on Wednesday indicted Louis "Skip" ReVille, a former school principal and youth coach, on charges of child sexual abuse involving 11 more victims, bringing to 26 the number of alleged victims. The grand jury also charged him with more crimes involving 15 alleged victims mentioned in the original charges filed earlier this month. Some of those ReVille is accused of abusing were former campers at The Citadel military college in Charleston. ... Read more »
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Safeway, Supervalu to stop buying "pink slime" beef
22.03.2012 1:11 11 views 0 comments
 WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Two of the biggest U.S. supermarket operators, Safeway Inc and Supervalu Inc, will stop buying the ammonia-treated beef product critics call "pink slime" because of customer concerns, the companies said on Wednesday. The halt by the No. 2 and No. 3 supermarket chains is a fresh blow to use of the ground beef product, also known as lean finely textured beef, which has drawn criticism from food activists. ...
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Safeway, Supervalu to stop buying "pink slime" beef
22.03.2012 1:11 11 views 0 comments
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Two of the biggest U.S. supermarket operators, Safeway Inc and Supervalu Inc, will stop buying the ammonia-treated beef product critics call "pink slime" because of customer concerns, the companies said on Wednesday. The halt by the No. 2 and No. 3 supermarket chains is a fresh blow to use of the ground beef product, also known as lean finely textured beef, which has drawn criticism from food activists. ...
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U.S. agency again denies aid to Illinois for tornado damage
22.03.2012 1:08 9 views 0 comments
 CHICAGO (Reuters) - The Federal Emergency Management Agency denied for a second time Illinois' request for disaster aid to recover from violent storms last month in which a powerful tornado killed seven people in one town, the state's governor said. "I am very disappointed with this decision and do not believe it reflects the reality and devastation on the ground," Illinois Governor Pat Quinn said in a statement that grudgingly accepted the agency's ruling. ...
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U.S. agency again denies aid to Illinois for tornado damage
22.03.2012 1:08 10 views 0 comments
CHICAGO (Reuters) - The Federal Emergency Management Agency denied for a second time Illinois' request for disaster aid to recover from violent storms last month in which a powerful tornado killed seven people in one town, the state's governor said. "I am very disappointed with this decision and do not believe it reflects the reality and devastation on the ground," Illinois Governor Pat Quinn said in a statement that grudgingly accepted the agency's ruling. ...
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Texas' 2011 drought costliest in state history: researchers
22.03.2012 1:03 9 views 0 comments
 SAN ANTONIO (Reuters) - Texas agriculture producers lost $7.62 billion to the state's 2011 drought, which experts said makes it the costliest drought in the state's history and possibly the most expensive drought ever suffered by any state. "No one alive has seen single-year drought damage to this extent," said Travis Miller, an agricultural economist at Texas AM University. ...
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Texas' 2011 drought costliest in state history: researchers
22.03.2012 1:03 9 views 0 comments
SAN ANTONIO (Reuters) - Texas agriculture producers lost $7.62 billion to the state's 2011 drought, which experts said makes it the costliest drought in the state's history and possibly the most expensive drought ever suffered by any state. "No one alive has seen single-year drought damage to this extent," said Travis Miller, an agricultural economist at Texas AM University. ...
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Starbucks factory investments to create 150 jobs
22.03.2012 1:01 9 views 0 comments
 SEATTLE (Reuters) - Starbucks Corp said on Wednesday it would spend $180 million on U.S. factories, creating 150 manufacturing jobs, and that it would get into the $8 billion U.S. energy drink market with a new product. The company also said that this summer it would begin selling coffee mugs made at a once-dormant factory in Ohio. The world's largest coffee chain, which recently started a fund to spur job creation, said it would build a factory in Augusta, Georgia, and expand an existing roasting plant in Sandy Run, South Carolina, to include packaging facilities. ...
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Romney Likely to Ignore Religion During Speech at Liberty University