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WASHINGTON – House Majority Whip Steve Scalise has been released from the Intensive Care Unit but remains in serious condition and is still being treated with antibiotics for an infection.
Scalise was in the ICU at the MedStar Washington Hospital Center for nearly a week after undergoing surgery for the infection. Following the surgery doctors said he “tolerated the procedure well.” Continue reading “House Majority Whip Steve Scalise out of ICU; still battling infection”
Cardinal George Pell, an advisor to Pope Francis, has returned to his home country of Australia to face allegations of sex abuse in years past.
Australia announced the charges against Pell late last month. Pell says he he innocent and promises to fight the charges. He has taken a leave of absence for the trial, but says he plans on returning to his powerful post in the Vatican. Continue reading “Prominent Cardinal Returns To Australia To Face Sex Abuse Charges”
A federal appeals court has upheld a jury’s decision to award a Tucson couple more than $1 million in damages after they were wrongfully detained by sheriff’s deputies during a raid executed after a fake 911 call.
In April 2016, a U.S. District Court jury ordered the Pima County Sheriff’s Department to pay Rob and Jill Larson $1.25 million in damages and more than $200,000 in attorney’s fees after deciding deputies violated the couple’s constitutional rights, according to Arizona Daily Star archives.
Continue reading “$1.25M judgment against Pima Sheriff’s Department upheld in mistaken raid”
Gov. Doug Ducey has asked the EPA to revise federal rules to give states the power to decide which streams will be protected as “Waters of the U.S.”
That power can have huge impacts over how strictly development along those streams is regulated, such as subdivisions and mines whose construction requires dredging and filling of water bodies.
In a letter to Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt, Ducey also argues that ephemeral streams and washes — those that carry water only after storms — shouldn’t be protected under that rule. Those are the overwhelming majority of watercourses in Arizona and Pima County.
Continue reading “Gov. Doug Ducey asks EPA for power to regulate Arizona streams”
A foiled gun-smuggling attempt in Nogales, Arizona, and a daring raid at an airstrip in Sinaloa, Mexico, led U.S. authorities to a gun shop on Tucson’s northwest side.
Along the way, federal agents encountered rifles powerful enough to take down a helicopter, two phony home invasions, dozens of fraudulent gun sale records, and a former Tucson police officer accused of stealing the identities of people he arrested as part of a scheme to smuggle guns across the border.
Continue reading “Federal agent in Tucson gun-smuggling case: ‘Every family member had a .50 cal’”
Carol McDaniel has a perennial challenge: Attracting highly specialized acute-care certified neonatal nurse practitioners to come work for Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital in St. Petersburg, Fla.
They are “always in short supply, high demand, and [it is a] very, very small group of people,” says McDaniel, the hospital’s recruitment director.
So, about six months ago, McDaniel says, the hospital started using a new recruitment tactic: It buys lists of potential candidates culled from online profiles or educational records. It then uses a technology to set up a wireless fence around key areas where the coveted nurses live or work. When a nurse with the relevant credentials enters a geofenced zone, ads inviting them to apply to All Children’s appear on their phones. Continue reading “Recruiters Use ‘Geofencing’ To Target Potential Hires Where They Live And Work”
This jackass is stating in his Auschwitz video that we must have homeland security and the military squared away so we don’t have a Holocaust in America.
Updated at 5:15 p.m. ET
As President Trump visited Poland on Wednesday, a U.S. congressman stirred up controversy with a video recorded at the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum. The five-minute video was originally posted Saturday to the YouTube channel for Lee Johnson Media, described as a “conservative podcast looking at America of today.” Continue reading “Congressman Retracts Auschwitz Video And Apologizes, After Criticism”