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Deputy Taped Dumping Man From Wheelchair Turns Herself In

TAMPA, Fla. – A deputy who was videotaped dumping a paralyzed man out of his wheelchair onto a Tampa jailhouse floor turned herself in. Jail records show Charlette Marshall-Jones was booked into the Orient Road Jail early Saturday morning. It is the same jail where Marshall-Jones worked. She is accused …

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Wife: Vasectomy Killed My Husband

Karen Abbott’s husband, Jem Abbott, went to the hospital for a routine vasectomy four years ago. A week later he was dead. The healthy 37-year-old British man had contracted septicemia, a type of blood poisoning, after undergoing the male sterilization procedure, The Daily Mail reported. Septicemia is a little-talked-about complication …

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UN Survey: Opium Grown in Afghanistan's South Continues at Alarming Rate

TOKYO – Opium cultivation in rebel-controlled areas in southern and southwestern Afghanistan is expected to grow this year, fueling the Taliban insurgency with more drug money, a U.N. report said Wednesday. The report, by the U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime, said that Afghanistan, in turmoil since a U.S.-led military …

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