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Gun instructor shoots student in the foot

NRA gun instructor shoots student by accident

Instructor’s gun goes off, striking student in foot

 

Eloísa Ruano González

Orlando Sentinel

12:24 a.m. EST

February 21, 2010

A gun instructor accidently shot a student in the foot Saturday during an NRA class to receive certification to carry a concealed weapon, Orlando police said.

Robert Frauman Jr., 50, was taken to Florida Hospital after instructor Michael Phillips' firearm discharged about 11:45 a.m., police said.

Phillips, 32, could not be reached for comment. The accident happened at Summit Church, located in a former movie theater near he Fashion Square mall.

The bullet went through a table before it hit Frauman, said Kristy-Lee Lawley, the church's communications director. She said Frauman, a member of the church, was "recovering well" and the bullet didn't break any bones.

Frauman was one of three students in the class, which was not a church-sponsored event, Lawley said. She said the church offered an upstairs conference room for free after some church members requested to have the class there. Lawley said the church is empty on Saturdays and this was the first class of its kind there.

"We won't be having anything like that in our church in the future," Lawley said.

The church with 2,500 members is headed by Pastor Isaac Hunter, son of the Rev. Joel Hunter, senior pastor of the Longwood-based megachurch Northland, A Church Distributed. The churches are not affiliated.

The NRA has a rule against bringing ammunition into a class, said Tom Wagner, a NRA instructor in Orlando who was not involved in Saturday's shooting. He said the association has "no problem yanking a certification if the rules are being broken."

This was not the first time something's gone wrong during a gun demonstration in Orlando. In 2004, a special agent with the Drug Enforcement Administration shot himself in the thigh with a .40-caliber Glock pistol while talking to schoolchildren about gun safety.
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Don't let nation's snow blind you on climate change

Feb. 20, 2010

Detroit Free

Don't let nation's snow blind you on climate change   

 

Buried under snow, Washington, D.C., and other mid-Atlantic regions have become showpieces for the folks who want to dispute the possibility of global warming. Not so much here, though, where southeast Michigan has tromped through a winter that has been extraordinarily ... average.

At 30 inches as of Friday, measured snowfall is 2.3 inches below normal; temperatures are running a bit above normal, including this month, which is 0.6 degrees warmer than average to date. And then there's the other side of the continent, where Canadians struggle to keep enough snow on the slopes in the Vancouver area to host Olympic events.

All of which reinforces how daily weather is irrelevant to discussions of climate change. Even on a warming globe, new low temperatures may occur and snow records may be set. Inexorably, though, carbon dioxide is building up in the atmosphere in finite and measurable quantities.

Scientists can only model so much about the global climate, and their predictions may prove wrong about what happens as greenhouse gases build up in the atmosphere. Moreover, as recently disclosed e-mails and other reports have indicated, there have been several slip-ups in how well the research has been reviewed and in the characterization of some data.

So it's important for continued and rigorous review of various climate studies, as it is in any scientific field. But it's also important to acknowledge that the long-term global trends are not suddenly reversing to suit the arguments of those who would prefer not to invest anything in countering potential climate change.

The stakes for future generations remain high, despite the D.C. area snowdrifts. And the effort to move beyond a carbon-based economy -- in which humans dig up fossil fuels that formed over millennia and burn them within a few centuries -- must continue for other reasons as well.

While oil and natural gas fields continue to be discovered, they exist in places that are increasingly difficult to reach. The era of cheap oil, in particular, is basically over. Coal becomes a "clean" fuel only at increasing expense.

So let it snow. But let's also unleash far more investment in new energy sources. Washingtonians getting stuck in snowbanks shouldn't have to mean everyone else has to get stuck in the status quo

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Man tells deputies cocaine is really bubble gum

Fort Pierce man’s bubble gum in sock turns out to be cocaine, deputies say

 

Will Greenlee

TCPalm

12:01 p.m. EST

February 19, 2010

 

A 38-year-old Fort Pierce man who said he was carrying bubble gum in his sock was arrested after St. Lucie County Sheriff's investigators turned up baggies of cocaine there, according to a police report.

Derrick C. Anderson faces a felony possession of cocaine charge following the Wednesday afternoon incident.

Investigators said they stopped a white Ford in the area of Avenue O and North 12th Street after the front passenger was spotted not wearing a seatbelt.

Anderson appeared to be putting something under a seat and looked "very nervous," the report states.

A deputy patted him down and noted a bulge in his sock. Asked what was in his sock, Anderson said "bubble gum," according to the report.

A sock search turned up three small baggies of cocaine, authorities said.

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Former inmate sues for $5,000,000 after being beaten for stealing 3 crackers

Former Rikers Island inmate sues city for $5M after being beaten for taking 3 crackers

Brendan Brosh
DAILY NEWS WRITER

 

Saturday, February 20th 2010, 4:00 AM

Three crackers can cost you 11 stitches at Rikers Island.

Former inmate Michael Carey is suing the city for $5 million, claiming a correction officer pummeled him for taking three crackers from the mess hall, according to a lawsuit filed in Bronx Supreme Court Friday.

Carey says an officer with the last name Mack punched him in the face, head and ear until he fell to the ground bleeding, requiring 11 stitches.

Mack, whose first name is not given in the suit, is also being sued for $1 million by Carey, who was serving 90 days for petty larceny, an official said.

A spokeswoman for the city's Law Department said the office hadn't been served legal papers yet.

"He alleges that he did nothing wrong," said Andrew Plasse, Carey's lawyer

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Doctors leave spatula in woman's abdomen

Czech Doctors Leave Surgical Instrument in Patient

02/17/10 12:12PM

Mail Foreign Service 

A Czech woman is planning to sue a hospital where she was treated after X-rays revealed doctors had left a foot-long surgical spatula in her abdomen.

Blunder: A foot-long spatula type medical instrument was left inside Zdenka Kopeckova's abdomen after a gynaecological operation

Zdenka Kopeckova, 66, had been complaining of severe abdominal pain for five months after a gynecological operation at a hospital in the Southeastern Czech town of Ivancice.

 A 66-year-old Czech woman is suing a hospital after a foot-long medical tool was left inside her abdoment after a gynecological operation. Zdenka Kopeckova complained repeatedly of severe pain following the surgery, but she says she received no help from hospital staff.

Kopeckova claims that staff at the hospital tried to cover up the mistake by dismissing her complaints and recommending pain killers. She told London’s Daily Mail, "'I said that nobody helps me and I cannot live like this till the end of my life. 

"I'll get pills, have a glass of alcohol and hang myself."

Clinic head Jaromir Hrubes blamed "a series of individual failures" for the forgotten spatula and said four employees had been punished. 

The spatula was removed from Kopeckova’s stomach last week. 

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Woman finds 32-year-old $17,500 check

Old check for $17,500 found in Lauderhill woman’s nightstand drawer

Insurance settlement was for 1976 accident under Brooklyn Bridge

Rafael A. Olmeda

Sun Sentinel

7:58 p.m. EST

February 18, 2010

LAUDERHILL - Barbara Cosgrove doesn't specifically remember who gave her the envelope in late January 1978. And she doesn't specifically remember tucking it away, unopened, in the bottom drawer of the nightstand in her bedroom.

All she knows for sure is that, 32 years later, she found the envelope, its edges eaten away by time, a slip of paper still inside waiting for her signature. It was a check for $17,500. The date on it was Jan. 23, 1978, and it was void if not cashed within 60 days.

"I've gone to that drawer a thousand times," said Cosgrove, now 85 and living in Lauderhill. "Why didn't I find it sooner?"

The money was from an insurance settlement stemming from a bizarre accident under the Manhattan side of the Brooklyn Bridge on April 1, 1976.

As Cosgrove recalled Thursday, the bridge was being painted, and a tarp was placed above the road so paint would not fall on passing cars. But after a week of heavy rains, the tarp gave way and sent water crashing down 200 feet onto the Lincoln Mark IV she had just purchased three days earlier.

The water smashed the hood and the front windshield, and Cosgrove said her screams were so loud she damaged her own eardrums. She had the presence of mind to cut off the ignition before passing out.

After a brief hospital stay, Cosgrove and her insurance company filed a claim against the Belt Painting Co., which was doing the work on the bridge. Less than two years later, Cosgrove got a check from the company's insurance provider, but she didn't realize it and put it away in a drawer.

Since she received the check, Cosgrove moved from West End, N.J., to Miami Beach and finally to Lauderhill, where she's resided for the past 15 years. She divorced her husband in the mid-1980s and got the furniture in the settlement. When a friend asked to see a picture of her ex-husband, she went digging through the drawer and found the envelope.

Cosgrove said she gave up on the settlement as a lost cause later in the same year. She wrote a letter to her lawyer in July 1978 asking him to pursue the settlement, but she never sent it. "I never knew for sure that there was even going to be a settlement," she said.

Cosgrove isn't sure she'll ever get the money. The company that wrote the check, The Home Insurance Companies of Manchester, N.H., was declared insolvent and was liquidated in June 2004. Tom Kober, the liquidation's chief claim officer, said Thursday he will send Cosgrove a claim form, but he couldn't predict whether a 32-year-old claim would be honored ahead of other claims against the company.

It's also not clear where the money has been sitting. The accident was in New York, the insurance company was in New Hampshire, and Cosgrove lived in New Jersey at the time the check was sent to her. Each of those states has an office that deals with unclaimed funds and none had a record Thursday of $17,500 waiting for Cosgrove.

"When the money wasn't deposited, why shouldn't they have followed up and said ‘Why haven't you cashed the check?' " Cosgrove wondered.

While she doesn't have any pressing financial needs and has no children, Cosgrove said the money would provide a more comfortable financial cushion for herself.

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'Dead' Woman Moves Arm At Funeral Home

Noelia Serna, 'Dead' Colombian Woman, Moves Arm At Funeral Home

| 02/17/10 01:42 PM | AP

 

AP
Funeral

BOGOTA, Colombia — A Colombian woman declared dead of a heart attack moved one of her arms just as an undertaker was about to embalm her, doctors said Wednesday.

Noelia Serna, 45, was rushed to a hospital in the city of Cali, where she was in critical condition in an intensive care unit Wednesday, said hospital director Luis Fernando Rendon.

"Her chances of survival are slim," Rendon said.

Serna, who has multiple sclerosis, was admitted to the same Cali University Hospital on Monday after a heart attack, Rendon said. She survived for about 10 hours on life support, but then seemingly didn't respond to resuscitation efforts following a second attack. She was declared dead early Tuesday.

About two hours later, funeral home employee Jaime Aullon was just about to inject embalming fluid into Serna's left leg when he saw her move.

"She was moving her right arm," he said. "I stopped the procedure and brought her back to the hospital to be treated."

On rare occasions, a person's heart rate and breathing can drop to undetectable levels, leading doctors to erroneously declare a patient dead, said neurosurgeon Juan Mendoza Vega, a member of the Colombian National Medical Ethics Board.

"It can happen," he said. "But it's not a matter of coming back to life because the person was never dead."

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Boy with 8 limbs "I am tired of being different"

Boy with 8 limbs "I am tired of being different"

18. 02. 10. - 13:00

Octo-boy plea

Croatian Times.

To some in his remote Indian village he is a living version of India's multi-limbed God Lakshmi and worshipped every day as holy.

To others eight-year-old Kumar Paswan is a monster, is stoned on sight and forced to hide away his astonishing medical condition.

But all the tragic youngster wants is to be normal and has launched an appeal for the thousands of pounds needed for an operation to remove his parasitic twin.

The twin stopped developing in the womb before it separated fully from Kumar and has left him with seven limbs.

"When he was born the doctors said he wouldn't live long but here he is and apart from how he looks he is very healthy," said his dad Veeresh Paswan, of Bihar, eastern India.

"I am tired of being different. I just want to live normally," added the youngster.

 

 

 

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Wife of televangelist Benny Hinn files for divorce

Wife of prosperity gospel televangelist Benny Hinn files for divorce in California

Benny Hinn

FILE - This Jan. 11, 2002 picture shows evangelist Benny Hinn during a service at the Blaisdell Concert Hall in Honolulu, Hawaii. His wife, Suzanne Hinn, filed divorce papers in Orange County Superior Court on Feb. 1, 2010 citing irreconcilable differences. The couple has been married for more than 30 years. (AP Photo/Ronen Zilberman) (Ronen Zilberman, AP / January 11, 2002)

 

GILLIAN FLACCUS

Associated Press Writer

February 18, 2010 | 5:43 p.m.

 

ORANGE, Calif. (AP) — The wife of televangelist Benny Hinn has filed for divorce from the high-profile pastor, whose reputation as an advocate of prosperity gospel has attracted millions of followers and criticism from lawmakers and watchdog groups over his lavish lifestyle.

Suzanne Hinn filed the papers in Orange County Superior Court on Feb. 1, citing irreconcilable differences, after more than 30 years of marriage. The papers note the two separated on Jan. 26 and that Hinn has been living in Dana Point, a wealthy coastal community in southern Orange County.

"Pastor Benny Hinn and his immediate family were shocked and saddened to learn of this news without any previous notice," Benny Hinn Ministries said Thursday in a statement. "Although Pastor Hinn has faithfully endeavored to bring healing to their relationship, those efforts failed and were met with the petition for divorce that was filed without notice."

Hinn is one of the best known advocates of the prosperity gospel, which teaches that Christians who are right with God will be rewarded with wealth and health in this lifetime.

His TV broadcasts on the Trinity Broadcast Network, a Pentecostal broadcasting juggernaut, and other TV networks are seen by millions of people around the world nearly every day. He travels the globe in his ministry's plane, named Dove One, holding events he calls "Miracle Crusades" that include spiritual healings.

Hinn has never fully publicly disclosed how he spends the money he raises, but his vast ministry is believed to be a multimillion-dollar operation. There was no mention of finances in the court filing, which listed three recent Southern California addresses for the family.

Over the years, Hinn has been the target of intense criticism from fellow Christians and watchdog groups who call his teachings false and accuse him of raising money only to enrich himself.

He is one of six televangelists under investigation by Sen. Charles Grassley, the Iowa Republican on the Senate Banking Committee, over whether he complied with IRS rules for nonprofits. Hinn has said on his Web site that external auditors ensure his compliance with IRS regulations and that in 2008, 88 percent of the money he collected was spent on ministry.

Benny Hinn Ministries is based in Grapevine, Texas, and operates a church and television studio in Aliso Viejo in California's Orange County, according to its Web site.

Sorrell Trope, the attorney with the law firm representing Suzanne Hinn, did not return a call for comment. A woman at his office said the firm does not comment on divorce filings without the client's approval.

J. Lee Grady, contributing editor of Charisma, a news magazine on the Pentecostal community, said Hinn's divorce is the latest in a string of high-profile ministry divorces and moral failures among the Pentecostal leaders, beginning with Ted Haggard's fall from grace in 2006.

Haggard, who is married and has five children, admitted to receiving a massage from a male prostitute and buying drugs from him, but denied allegations he paid the man for sex.

Grady said in an e-mail Thursday that Hinn's followers will want an explanation for the divorce because of the high profile the couple had.

"It will be devastating to the people who have supported Benny Hinn's evangelistic work around the world," Grady said.

"Obviously because their ministry has been very public, they will need to issue a statement to their supporters to explain how this happened," he said.
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