Tag: north-carolina
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Texas ruling adds to transgender students’ back-to-school anxiety
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (Reuters) – When Ashley Nurkin's 7-year-old daughter begins second grade in Charlotte, North Carolina, next week, it will be her first time going to school as a girl. The emotional roller-coaster for U.S. transgender students going back to school in the next few weeks hit a new curve when a federal judge in…
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Jailed Gambia opposition official dies in hospital: party
A detained official from Gambia’s main opposition movement died in hospital over the weekend, his United Democratic Party said, its second member to lose their life in custody since the start of a crackdown on protests. Solo Krummah was arrested with 14 others on May 9 during rallies calling for electoral reform, and died on…
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Channels at Charlotte whitewater center reopen
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — The whitewater channels at the U.S. National Whitewater Center in North Carolina have reopened six weeks after a visitor died from a brain-eating amoeba.
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Opting for CPR but not intubation may not be wise
By Randi Belisomo (Reuters Health) – If you have an advance directive that cherry-picks the interventions you want to receive if your heart suddenly stops, you might want to rethink your choices, according to physicians writing in JAMA Internal Medicine. People who prepare for the possibility of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) by specifying selected options -…
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Many older black women miss out on targeted breast cancer drug
By Lisa Rapaport (Reuters Health) – Older black women with human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2)–positive breast cancer are less likely than their white peers to receive targeted therapy with trastuzumab (Herceptin), a U.S. study suggests. When researchers examined data from Medicare, the U.S. health program for people over age 65, they found just…
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Ex-NFL star Gault is fined in SEC fraud case, will appeal
Willie Gault, the former National Football League wide receiver and Olympic sprinter, was ordered to pay $206,571 to settle a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission lawsuit over his role in a scheme to inflate the stock price of a heart-monitoring device maker. U.S. District Judge James Selna of the Santa Ana, California federal court ordered…
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Sanders at Vatican says rich-poor gap worse than 100 years ago
By Philip Pullella VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – U.S. presidential candidate Bernie Sanders, addressing a Vatican conference on social justice on Friday, decried the “immoral” gap between the world's rich and poor that he said was worse than a century ago. The Democratic hopeful from Vermont has campaigned on a vow to rein in corporate power…
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Nearly 700 animals rescued from unlicensed North Carolina shelter
Stephen Spear, 67, and Linden Spear, 59, managers of The Haven-Friends for Life, a private no-kill shelter in Raeford, North Carolina, were arrested on Wednesday and face charges of animal cruelty and possession of a controlled substance, according to the Hoke County Sheriff’s Office. Raeford is about 110 miles east of Charlotte. Workers with the…
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Nearly 700 animals rescued from unlicensed North Carolina shelter
Stephen Spear, 67, and Linden Spear, 59, managers of The Haven-Friends for Life, a private no-kill shelter in Raeford, North Carolina, were arrested on Wednesday and face charges of animal cruelty and possession of a controlled substance, according to the Hoke County Sheriff’s Office. Raeford is about 110 miles east of Charlotte. Workers with the…