Bedbugs Spreading to Theaters, Offices, Schools

They’ve shown up in library books and hitched rides aboard school textbooks and book bags, and health officials continue to field calls from frantic rescue workers and home health care aides as well as school officials, landlords and emergency crews.

Bedbugs — they just won’t go away.

“We’re going to office buildings and banks. … We’ve been to a couple of movie theaters, and we’re going into a medical clinic tonight,” Bob [...]

COURT: HIV-infected man’s saliva not a weapon

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — The saliva of an HIV-infected man who bit a police officer doesn’t constitute a deadly weapon or dangerous instrument under state law, New York’s top court ruled Thursday.

In dismissing the aggravated assault conviction of David Plunkett, the Court of Appeals is sending the case back to a lower court for resentencing.

The 48-year-old Plunkett is serving a 10-year sentence at Sing Sing after pleading guilty to assault [...]

Abortion foes do live ultrasounds in Idaho Capitol

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — The Idaho Capitol was part medical clinic, part reality TV show and all cultural battlefield on Wednesday, as an anti-abortion advocate secured a basement meeting room to conduct live ultrasound procedures on six women before a mostly female audience of 150.

Some were ejected from the room by Idaho State Police troopers after interrupting activist Brandi Swindell’s descriptions of the ultrasound images shown on three projector screens.

Swindell, [...]

Surveillance cameras capture thieves stealing — surveillance cameras

LINDA (CBS13) – Thieves got away with 12 surveillance cameras from a Yuba County health clinic over the weekend, but in the process they gave investigators a look back in time.

The hard drives associated with those cameras stored footage of the criminals in the act outside the Harmony Health Medical Clinic in Linda.

Rachel Farrell, who runs the clinic that serves a lot of uninsured or under-insured patients, says the crooks [...]

COPS: Woman cut baby from womb, let mother die

A SOUTH African woman appeared in court yesterday accused of leaving a pregnant woman for dead after slicing her open and stealing the unborn child from her womb.

Loretta Cooke (29) from Randfontein in west Johannesburg was remanded in custody at Randfontein Magistrate Court after state prosecutors were granted an adjournment to allow them investigate the case further.

The grisly murder was perpetrated last week, but the police initially thought 34-year-old Valencia [...]

UPDATE: Breast Milk Ice Cream Causes Hepatitis Fears In London

By NewsCore – A London borough council confiscated breast milk ice cream being sold in a shop in the city’s tourist district over fears it could contain hepatitis viruses and sent it for testing.

“Following two complaints from members of the public and concerns from the Health Protection Agency and Food Standards Agency, our officers visited the premises and removed all ice cream being sold as [...]