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The clinic where slain Kansas abortion provider Dr. George Tiller worked will be "permanently closed," his family's attorneys said Tuesday. Tiller. 67, performed late-term abortions at the Wichita clinic until he was gunned down by an anti-abortionist in church May 31. Lee Thompson and Dan Monnat, attorneys for Tiller's family, said in a statement that "effective immediately, Women's Health Care Services, Inc., will be permanently closed. "We are proud of the service and courage shown by our husband and father and know that women's health care needs have been met because of his dedication and service," the statement read. "That...

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Police on Wednesday were investigating how a naked couple fell 50 feet from the roof of a downtown office building to their deaths. The bodies were found on the road by a passing cabdriver around 5 a.m. Wednesday. Clothing was discovered on the roof, leading authorities to suspect the man and woman, in their early 20s, may have been having sex. Their identities were not released. "It's too early to rule out anything," Columbia police Sgt. Florence McCants said, but McCants said a preliminary investigation didn't show any sign of foul play.

Brokeback Mountain Weekly Grocery Lists for Ennis Del Mar and Jack Twist, Summer, 1963 WEEK ONE * Beans * Bacon * Coffee * Whiskey WEEK TWO * Beans * Ham * Coffee * Whiskey WEEK THREE * Beans al fresca * Thin-sliced Bacon * Hazelnut Coffee * Sky vodka & Tanqueray gin * K-Y gel WEEK FOUR * Beans en salade * Pancetta * Coffee (espresso grind) * 5-6 bottles best Chardonnay * 2 tubes K-Y gel WEEK FIVE * Fresh Fava beans * Jasmine rice * Prosciutto, approx. 8 ounces, thinly sliced * Medallions of veal * Porcini mushrooms...

Girl Calls 911 After Parents Killed Wednesday, March 30, 2005 NEW SMYRNA BEACH, Fla. — A 5-year-old girl called 911 on Monday after waking to gunshots and finding her dead mother and dying father in bed. Police say a gunman seeking revenge for drug charges snuck into the family's Florida home and opened fire; he then killed himself in his home later that day. The child, Tia Hernlen, described the traumatic scene to the operator: “My mommy and daddy … I think there is a bullet on the floor... and there is blood coming out of my dad's mouth and...

A judge today denied a request to block St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital from halting life-support measures for a 68-year-old Friendswood man. The family of Spiro Nikolouzos had asked state District Judge Tony Lindsay for a temporary restraining order to prevent the hospital from stopping the ventilator and artificial feedings keeping him alive. But Lindsay denied the family's request today, noting that she did so "with sincere sadness." St. Luke's officials notified Jannette Nikolouzos on March 1 that life-sustaining care of her husband of 34 years would be halted in 10 days, which would be Friday. Mario Caballero, the family's attorney,...

DALLAS -- There were serious signs of trouble near the end of Shayla Stewart's short life. Stewart, 24, was diagnosed as bipolar and schizophrenic. She had assaulted police officers. She had been arrested for attacking a fellow customer at a Denton Wal-Mart where she had a prescription to anti-psychotic medication. Given all those signs, her parents say, another Wal-Mart just seven miles away should have never sold her the shotgun Stewart used to kill herself in 2003. Her mother, Lavern Bracy, filed a $25 million wrongful death lawsuit last week in a Denton County district court against the Bentonville, Ark.-based...

How John Edwards changed case law and multiplied liability By Robert L. Barbieri, MD Editor-in-Chief obg@dowdenhealth.com Rapidly increasing practice costs plus stagnant or decreasing revenues continue to plague Ob/Gyns. Professional liability insurance is the fastest-growing of these costs—thanks largely to the trend toward multimillion dollar payments in personal injury cases. John Edwards, the Democratic Vice-Presidential candidate, is one of the most successful personal injury attorneys in North Carolina history. In his recent book Four Trials , Edwards recounts his success in cases where the plaintiffs suffered greatly. What he fails to recognize, however, are the major negative effects large jury...

<p>LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas (CNN) -- Wesley Clark, the former NATO supreme commander, told CNN he will kick off his run for the Democratic presidential nomination with an announcement today.</p> <p>"This is what my expertise, my leadership experience, my whole career has pointed and prepared me for," Clark said in an interview with CNN's "American Morning" on Wednesday.</p>

MEXICO CITY -- Seeking to mend ties frayed by his nation's refusal to support the Iraq war, President Vicente Fox said Tuesday that it is time for Mexico and the United States to forget about their past differences and focus on terrorism and other common concerns. "Mexico had a different opinion in the way the possession of weapons of mass destruction or chemical weapons could have been resolved," Fox said of his country's unwillingness to support a U.N. Security Council resolution authorizing the U.S.-led war against Iraq. "But things happened the way they happened," he said at a meeting with...

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Don't go back to U.N., Mr. President By CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER Don't go back, Mr. President. You walked away from the United Nations at great cost and with great courage. Don't go back. No one knows when this war will end. But when it does, you'll have to decide the terms. Yet in the last few days both you and Tony Blair have said you will seek a new U.N. resolution, postwar, providing for the governance of Iraq. Why in God's name would we want to re-empower the French in deciding the postwar settlement? Why would we want to grant them...

The spin to cast the islamo-fascists as freedom fighters is already beginning on CNN. They have not even finished counting the dead and the spin begins.

Suit accuses Chick-fil-A of religious bias By ROSANNA RUIZ Copyright 2002 Houston Chronicle Houston resident Aziz Latif claims Chick-fil-A's Christian stance runs deeper than simply being closed on Sundays. In a federal court lawsuit filed Monday, Latif, 25, said the Atlanta-based chain's corporate purpose to glorify God discriminates against its non-Christian employees. Latif, a Muslim, said he was fired a day after he refused to pray to Jesus Christ during a training session in November 2000. The lawsuit said Latif was hired in 1996 but does not specify which Houston restaurant he worked for or what position he was being...

JIDDAH, Saudi Arabia -- Saudi Arabia has made clear to Washington -- publicly and privately -- that the U.S. military will not be allowed to use the kingdom's soil in any way for an attack on Iraq, Foreign Minister Prince Saud said today. Saud said in an interview with The Associated Press that his country opposes any U.S. operation against Iraq "because we believe it is not needed, especially now that Iraq is moving to implement United Nations resolutions." "We have told them we don't (want) them to use Saudi grounds" for any attack on Iraq, he said. With speculation...

<p>WASHINGTON (CNN) -- ABC's Peter Jennings gave the boot to country singer Toby Keith after deciding the lyrics of his hit song, "Courtesy of the Red, White and Blue," were too controversial for the network's July 4th special celebrating America.</p>

Does the statement, "We've always done it that way" ring any bells... ? The US standard railroad gauge (distance between the rails) is 4 feet, 8.5 inches. That's an exceedingly odd number. Why was that gauge used? Because that's the way they built them in England, and English expatriates built the U.S. Railroads. Why did the English build them like that? Because the first rail lines were built by the same people who built the pre-railroad tramways, and that's the gauge they used. Why did "they" use that gauge then? Because the people who built the tramways used the same...