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PROVIDENCE, R.I. — The alleged neglect and death of a terminally ill Chinese immigrant detained in a Rhode Island jail two years ago triggered scathing reports and investigations, a wide-ranging federal lawsuit and hand-wringing over who was responsible.
A judge will hear arguments this week [...]
WASHINGTON — Obesity’s not just dangerous, it’s expensive. New research shows medical spending averages $1,400 more a year for an obese person than for someone who’s normal weight. Overall obesity-related health spending reaches $147 billion, double what it was nearly a decade ago, says the study published Monday by the journal Health Affairs.
The higher expense [...]
BELLINGHAM, Wash. — Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano got a tour Monday of a $4 million Olympics Coordination center that in six months should be a bustling hub of counterterrorism and security operations for the 2010 Winter Games in nearby British Columbia.
The tour at the command center in Bellingham, just south of the U.S.-Canadian border, [...]
ENGLEWOOD, Colo. — Brandon Marshall is one unhappy camper.
The recalcitrant Pro Bowl receiver reported to the first day of the Denver Broncos’ training camp on Monday after skipping all offseason workouts while rehabbing from a hip operation and protesting his contract and what he feels was a misdiagnosis of his injury by the team’s medical [...]
CHICAGO — Even at age 85, reputed mobster Sam Volpendesto clearly has a soft spot for the days when Al Capone was boss in Chicago’s ruthless mob scene. In wiretap recordings released by federal prosecutors Monday, he seems to delight in telling how he lived among “very dangerous people” and watched one mobster put a [...]
LOS ANGELES — The last hours of Lily Burk’s life were spent trying to get money for a kidnapper who finally beat the 17-year-old to death and left her body in her car in a downtown parking lot, police said Monday.
Burk was found dead Saturday in her black Volvo. A 50-year-old parolee, Charlie Samuel, was [...]
BLACKSBURG, Va. — Texting while driving increases the risk of a crash much more than previous studies have concluded with motorists taking their eyes off the road longer than they do when talking or listening on their cell phones, a safety research institute said Monday.
The Virginia Tech Transportation Institute used cameras to continuously observe light [...]
INDIANAPOLIS — Health insurer Aetna Inc. chopped its 2009 profit outlook for the second time since June on Monday and said its second-quarter profit sank 28 percent, as medical costs rose faster than it expected.
Hartford, Conn.-based Aetna blamed health care providers and the slumping economy for costs that exceeded what the managed care company expected [...]
HAWTHORNE, N.Y. — A Long Island mother who plowed into an SUV, killing eight people in a fiery crash, drove nearly two miles in the wrong direction on a familiar highway after telling her brother she wasn’t feeling well, police said.
Diane Schuler was taking her two children and three nieces — ages 2 to 9 [...]
NEW YORK — Ben Silverman has left NBC after two years as entertainment chief of the hit-starved network and is heading back to the content-producing role where he once found success.
He is starting a new company with an initial investment from media mogul Barry Diller’s IAC/InterActiveCorp, and already has a consultancy deal in place with [...]