Apr 2, 2013
|Story| Baltimore Sun
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The White House proposed a sweeping new initiative Tuesday to map the individual cells and circuits that make up the human brain, a project that will give scientists a better understanding of how a healthy brain works and how to devise better treatments...
Mar 27, 2013
|Story| Hartford Courant
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Connecticut needs to help the tiny group of mentally ill people trapped in the revolving door of madness, homelessness, hospitalization and prison simply because they won't take their medication.
This state should join the 44 others that allow so-called...
Mar 27, 2013
|Story| Herald Mail
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Family members of Wayne Jones, who died March 13 from multiple gunshot wounds when five Martinsburg police officers tried to arrest him during an altercation, claimed at a news conference Wednesday that Jones was struck 15 times by police bullets.
The...
Mar 27, 2013
|Story| Los Angeles Times
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TUCSON -- More than two years after a gunman opened fire in Tucson killing six and seriously wounding former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, authorities on Wednesday released thousands of pages of records about the case that had previously been kept private....
Mar 27, 2013
|Story| Petoskey News
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PHOENIX (AP) — Hundreds of pages of police reports in the investigation of the Tucson shooting rampage that wounded former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords are being released Wednesday, marking the public's first glimpse into documents that authorities...
Mar 26, 2013
|Story| South Bend Tribune
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This story was originally published February 10, 2013.
The Virginia Tech shooter, Seung-Hui Cho, was diagnosed with severe social anxiety disorder as a teenager. In Aurora, Colo., the defense attorney for the accused shooter James Eagen Holmes,...
Mar 25, 2013
|Story| Los Angeles Times
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Simona A. Farrise founded Farrise Law Firm in 2007 with a broad mission: to make the seemingly impossible possible. An expert in complex litigation, Farrise has built a firm that helps clients through the most trying times of their lives. In the process,...
Mar 17, 2013
|Story| Chicago Tribune
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Daniel "Doc" Habeel and Arnetha Gholston-Habeel are nearly always together in sickness, surrounded by hunger and homelessness. But love is the driving force for this couple.
On a Wednesday morning this year, Arnetha, 54, was gently nudging Doc, her...
Mar 8, 2013
|Story| Chicago Tribune
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I do not know how old I was when I learned to play chess. I could not have been older than 8, because I still have a chess board on whose side my father inscribed, with a soldering iron, “Saša Hemon 1972.” I loved the board more than...
Feb 18, 2013
|Column| Baltimore Sun
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There are so many violent tragedies every day — I'm thinking specifically about the deaths of young people, and particularly those by gun — it's impossible to process it all, much less give our hearts to it. If we tried, our heads would burst....
Dec 26, 2012
|Column| Baltimore Sun
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The philosopher Kahlil Gibran's meditation on children is a touching favorite among parents who have read "The Prophet."
In it, he captures perfectly the helplessness we feel as our children go out into the world, into the future, and necessarily...
Feb 8, 2013
|Story| Baltimore Sun
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Baltimore has witnessed love and loss.
From the banks of the harbor to Mount Vernon's cobblestones to the grassed-over burial plots of Greenmount Cemetery, embedded in this city are vestiges of some of history's great romances, stories of people coming...
SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) — Veteran journalist Ted Koppel will speak at a public discussion of contemporary journalism, politics and world affairs at the University of Notre Dame. The former longtime anchor of the ABC News show "Nightline" will take...