Monday, November 18, 2013

Prosecutor to 'get to the bottom' of sex assault case involving Florida State star

Jameis Winston’s sexual assault scandal is reappearing. The case has been closed for months but Winston’s lawyer is saying he will cooperate with authorities. The assault was filed in December. The case was closed before he had ever been questioned. No one has been charged for anything and the subject’s description of the perpetrator didn’t match Winston. The description was a height ranging between 5-foot-9 and 5-foot-11 which is shorter than Winston who is 6-foot-4. Willie Meggs, the state attorney, doesn’t think much is going to come from this reopening of the case. It is just happening at a bad time for Winston because he is in the running for the Heisman Trophy.

   

Sunday, November 10, 2013

Body found in hospital stairwell: San Francisco sheriff details what went wrong

Lynne Spalding Ford was found dead in a stairwell in the same hospital she disappeared from nine days earlier. After disappearing, Lynne’s family searched the city while passing out thousands of fliers. Information as to when and how she died is unknown thus far. She checked into the hospital for a bladder infection on September 19th and was found dead in the stairwell by an hospital engineering employee on October 8th. Numerous amounts of mishaps during the search for Lynne resulted in her not being found for this long amount of time. New policies are being instated to further prevent more incidents as horrible as this from happening again.  


Tuesday, November 5, 2013

What's in your spices? Bug parts and rat hair

            New reports conducted by the Food and Drug Administration say that 12% of U.S. spice imports contain bug parts, rodent hairs, and other ingredients similar. They not only found this but also that 7% of spice imports passed by inspectors also contain salmonella. Salmonella is a bacteria that can cause abdominal cramps, fevers, and diarrhea. On the good side, out of the 37 years of records analyzed a “relatively small number of outbreaks” compared to what it could have been occurred. Only 14 outbreaks worldwide occurred from these spices, which caused 128 hospitalizations and around than 2,000 human illnesses. These spices go through many small hands before it gets to stores. There are many chances for contamination. Safety precautions are being taken and former ones are being tighten to hopefully prevent this from happening again. 

http://www.cnn.com/2013/10/31/health/bugs-in-spices/index.html?hpt=he_t3