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Shocking numbers: CDC says Indiana middle-aged suicide rate grew 54 percent
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The federal government says Indiana's suicide rate among its middle-aged population surged nearly 54 percent from 1999 to 2010, giving the state one of the nation's biggest such increases. Thursday's report from the Centers for...
Tags: U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Disease Prevention, Substance Abuse
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Michigan sees big rise in middle-aged suicides
DETROIT (AP) — A government study finds Michigan is one of the states with the highest jumps in suicides among middle-aged Americans. A Centers for Disease Control Prevention report released Thursday says the state's suicide rate among people...
Tags: U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
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Notre Dame declines to release results of sex assault policy survey
The University of Notre Dame is refusing to release results from a recent sexual assault policy survey that was taken by students. Some of the survey details were given to the university-owned, student-ran newspaper – The Observer. But when WSBT...
Tags: Human Interest, Students, Sex Crimes, University of Notre Dame, Health and Safety at School
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Lawyer: Girl's assault was shared in photos, texts
SARATOGA, Calif. (AP) — The parents of a 15-year-old California girl who took her own life after she was sexually abused and an explicit photo of the assault circulated among her classmates want the three boys who have been arrested in the case...
Tags: Sex Crimes, Students, Police Arrests, Crime, Law and Justice, Politics
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For lobbyist of gun law reform, it's personal
South Bend Tribune CorrespondentSOUTH BEND — For more than 40 years, Stephen Miller has known the devastation wrought by gun violence — his brother Thomas was murdered in 1972, his nephew Christopher died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound in 1994. He’s doing something...Tags: State of the Union Address, Lobbying, Crime, Law and Justice, Laws, Mayors Against Illegal Guns
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Defense seeks dismissal of Ind. fetal murder case
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A lawyer for a woman charged with murdering her infant because she ate rat poison while pregnant says records clearly show that the Indiana law she's charged under was only meant to apply to people who attack pregnant women,...
Tags: Lawyers, Belief and Faith, Human Interest, Pregnancy and Childbirth, Career and Workplace
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Friends, family pay respects to Goshen victim of alleged murder-suicide
WSBT-TV ReporterNew details about a woman Goshen police say was gunned downed by her former fiance. Friends and family paid their respects Friday to Millicent Morros of Goshen. The 48-year old was killed Monday morning on her way to work by her ex-lover, 51-year-old...Tags: Shootings, Murder
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More gun laws = fewer deaths, 50-state study says
CHICAGO (AP) — It's a study everyone is talking about today because the statistics are so dramatic: States with the most gun control laws have a 42 percent lower gun death rate than states with the least number of gun control laws, according to a...
Tags: Internists, Washington, DC, Health and Medical Professionals, Daniel Webster, Laws
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Local teen beats suicidal thoughts with controversial treatment
It's a nation-wide problem affecting local families. A shortage of psychiatrists means adults, teens and kids who desperately need help aren't getting it. The reason for the shortage? Med students are choosing other specialties. Our Fact Finder team...
Tags: Psychiatry, Social Sciences, Medical Specialization, Arts and Culture, Health and Medical Professionals
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UPDATE: Former Goshen officer kills ex, then himself
WSBT-TVA Goshen woman is dead. Police say her ex-boyfriend, a former Goshen cop, shot and killed her Monday morning and then himself. The bodies of 51-year-old John Eric Haitsma and 48-year-old Millicent Morros were found just before 8 a.m. in a parking lot in...Tags: Career and Workplace, Labor Legislation
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Indiana man faces assisting suicide in wife's death
KOKOMO, Ind. (AP) — A central Indiana man has been charged with assisting suicide for allegedly making a noose for his estranged wife, who later used it to hang herself. Nicholas E. Ellis of Greentown faces one count of assisting suicide in... -
Study: People worldwide living longer, but sicker
LONDON (AP) — Nearly everywhere around the world, people are living longer and fewer children are dying. But increasingly, people are grappling with the diseases and disabilities of modern life, according to the most expansive global look so far...Tags: Health, Malaria, Diabetes, Europe, Tuberculosis
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