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A Cape Coral woman who reportedly crashed into a tree in January, injuring herself and the six children in her vehicle, had a suspended driver’s license and tested positive for prescription drugs.
Mary E. Jones, 36, of 1127 S.W. 18th Ave., was charged Monday with DUI, DUI with property damage, two counts of DUI with personal injury, three counts of DUI with serious bodily injury and three counts of driving while license suspended with serious bodily injury, according to police.
Jones was additionally charged with possession of drug paraphernalia and possession of marijuana under 20 grams, as well as two counts of possession of a controlled substance without a prescription.
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Mary E. Jones
She remained in custody Tuesday at the Lee County Jail without bond.
On Jan. 13, Jones was driving a 2007 Hyundai Entourage south on Nott Road, according to police reports. At about 6:05 p.m., Jones veered left off of the roadway into a ditch in the 800 block. The vehicle sideswiped a tree, causing damage to the driver’s side, before continuing southbound.
The Hyundai finally collided head-on into a tree, coming to a stop.
Jones sustained minor injuries in the crash. She was treated at the hospital and later released.
There were six children riding in the Hyundai at the time of the accident.
According to police, three of the children sustained life-threatening, serious bodily injuries and two sustained minor injuries. All were transported to area hospitals for treatment and later released.
Jones initially denied driving, but later reportedly admitted to it while talking to police.
She provided a blood sample for testing. The results indicate that Jones had four different controlled substances in her system during the crash – alprazolam, diazepam, nordiazepam and oxycodone.
Police reported that physical evidence on Jones and on the Hyundai placed her as the driver.
Jones was reportedly in possession of alprazolam, oxycodone and marijuana at the time of the crash.
On April 27, Jones was involved in another accident at Hancock Bridge Parkway and Pine Island Road. As a result, she was arrested and charged with DUI unlawful blood alcohol DUI with property damage.
According to a report, Jones made contact with another vehicle, then went the wrong way and turned into oncoming traffic. She made a U-turn in the eastbound lanes of Pine Island and came to a stop.
The officer on scene found Jones at fault for the accident, but she stated that the other driver hit her.
Jones appeared to be under the influence and was asked to participate in field sobriety tests, the report states.
Upon the completion of the tests, she was taken into custody and charged.
Jones consented to a breathalyzer test and the results were 0.00.
Police asked that she provide a urine sample, which Jones declined to do.
She was booked at the Lee County Jail and later released.
The State Attorney’s Office has since filed an amended charge against Jones of reckless driving with damage person and or property in connection to the crash. The case remained open as of Tuesday.
Two weeks ago, Cape officers responded to a report of a man armed with a rifle in the Saratoga Lake Park area. An investigation led to the arrest of three people – two on drug charges – including Jones.
Upon arrival, officers observed Richard Ball, 34, arguing with two women inside of a parked car and armed with what appeared to be a shotgun. He was ordered to drop the weapon and was detained.
According to police, the gun was found to be a realistic-looking pellet gun.
When officers approached the scene, Jones reportedly attempted to conceal a pill bottle inside the car. Officers found 12 bottles of narcotics, 213.3 grams of hydrocodone and 125.9 grams of alprazolam.
Jones was charged with drugs possess controlled substance without prescription, fraud impersonation false identification given to law enforcement officer, knowingly drive while license suspended revoked and opium or derivative traffick 4 grams to under 30 kilograms, according to the jail booking records.
Ball and the second woman, Ashley Hoffrichter, 25, were also charged.
The Florida Department of Children and Families previously reported that it had opened an investigation on Jones just days before the January crash. Though officials could not release any information about the investigation, they said DCF received another report after the accident.
“We have investigated Ms. Jones in the past and did investigate the circumstances involving the car accident in January,” Terri Durdaller, a DCF spokeswoman, said Tuesday. “The case has been closed.”
However, the findings of the case are not public record.
“Details involving a DCF investigation only become public if it has been determined a child died at the hands of abuse, neglect or abandonment,” she said.
Jones has court appearances for her open cases set for July 8, July 12 and July 22.
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 Michael Hastings via Current TV.Michael Hastings, the Buzzfeed writer who appeared to have died in a fiery Hollywood crash early today, had reported extensively on the CIA and was rumored to be continuing work on that beat at the time of his demise.
That Hastings had the Central Intelligence Agency in his sights is no surprise to those who knew his work. In March he gave what could now be seen as an eerie interview to Current TV about his recent Rolling Stone coverage of a CIA operative, Andrew Warren, who grew to believe he was being followed:
He started drinking heavily. He started abusing these drugs, Xanax and Valium, he started hearing voices. He believed he was being followed. He might have actually been being followed. Maybe, probably not, you don’t know. It gets into this very strange …
“Well, he’s CIA, he might have been followed,” says host Cenk Uygur.
Hastings: “He might have been followed for sure. For sure.”
The subject “starts leading this double life,” Hastings said. “No one knows he undercover.”
See also: Michael Hastings, Noted Journalist, Dies in Fiery Hollywood Crash (VIDEO).
Leon Panetta was asked about Warren at his Senate confirmation as CIA director and said he should be fired. Warren was soon fired.
Hastings said that Warren’s career unraveled, in part, because he was the only black officer in the agency. “If he was a white guy from Yale or Harvard,” he told Current, “he would not be in jail right now.”
Indeed, Hastings suggests in his April 7 Rolling Stone piece about Warren that it was his knowledge of “severe” interrogation techniques used by the CIA in the war on terror that helped lead to his demise.
In 2008 the agent was recalled to the United States to face allegations that he “drugged and raped an Algerian woman while serving there as station chief,” reads the piece.
He was fired and jailed, but not without controversy.
Buzzfeed announced in October that Hastings “will bring his hard-hitting reporting on national security and politics to the BuzzFeed Los Angeles Bureau while contributing to entertainment coverage as a Correspondent-at-Large.”
Indeed, the shadowy world of intelligence and off-the-record American aggression was a favorite topic of the journalist. Last year he wrote this Rolling Stone story “killer drones” in Afghanistan.
In a tribute to the late writer tonight that says Hastings died in a “high-speed wreck,” Buzzfeed Editor-in-Chief Ben Smith notes that he lost his fiance while they were in Baghdad; he was there as a Newsweek correspondent:
His fiancée was killed in Baghdad in January of 2007, when he was a Newsweek reporter there, and her death was still utterly raw to him when he published his first book, I Lost My Love In Baghdad.
This morning’s single car crash on North Highland Avenue near Melrose Avenue was reported at 4:25 a.m., police said. Positive ID had yet to be made because the body had been so badly charred, LAPD Officer Christopher No told us. He added:
The vehicle crossed over a median and collided into a tree. The impact caused the vehicle to catch on fire.
That stretch of Highland Avenue is notorious for its late-night crashes involving DUI drivers, though Tuesday at 4:25 a.m. would probably stick out as an unusual time for such a case.
The cause of this fatal accident was still under investigation.
Send feedback and tips to the author. Follow Dennis Romero on Twitter at @dennisjromero. Follow LA Weekly News on Twitter at @laweeklynews.
Article source: http://blogs.laweekly.com/informer/2013/06/michael_hastings_cia_coverage_crash_fire.php
Posted: Wednesday, June 19, 2013 12:00 am
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Journalist dies in L.A. car crash
LOS ANGELES Award-winning journalist and war correspondent Michael Hastings died early Tuesday in a car accident in Los Angeles, his employer and family said.
Hastings, 33, most recently wrote about politics for the news website BuzzFeed. Hastings won a 2010 George Polk Award for magazine reporting for his Rolling Stone cover story “The Runaway General.”
Conn. chimp attack victim to appeal
NEW HAVEN, Conn. A woman disfigured by a friend’s pet chimpanzee in 2009 plans to appeal a decision denying her permission to sue the state for $150 million on her claim that officials knew the chimp was dangerous but didn’t do anything about it, her attorney said Tuesday.
MIAMI One of several Cuban dissidents recently allowed to visit Europe and the U.S. after Cuba changed its travel laws said Tuesday she decided to seek refuge in Miami after facing continued repression on the island.
Rosa Maria Paya said she and her family have been the subject of threats, harassment and increased vigilance since her father’s death last year and after her return to Cuba in April.
Paya, 24, is the daughter of the late Oswaldo Paya, organizer of a signature-gathering drive regarded as the largest nonviolent campaign to change the system Fidel Castro established in 1959.
Man found in plane cockpit to leave U.S.
PHILADELPHIA A French man who talked his way into the cockpit of a plane at Philadelphia International Airport by impersonating an airline employee has been sentenced to time served and will be deported.
Philippe Jeannard, 61, was sentenced Tuesday in federal court.
Land buy-back program for tribes set
WASHINGTON The Interior Department says it is ready to start a program to help Native American tribes buy parcels of reservation land that have accumulated multiple owners.
The purchases announced Tuesday are part of a settlement over government mismanagement of Indian land royalties.
Jury selection July 9 in Fort Hood case
FORT HOOD, Texas Jury selection will start July 9 in the murder trial of the Army psychiatrist charged in the deadly 2009 Fort Hood shooting rampage.
The judge set the date after rejecting Maj. Nidal Hasan’s request for a three-month trial delay.
Hasan faces the death penalty or life in prison without parole if convicted in the attack that left 13 dead at Fort Hood.
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A problem has arisen for a 21-year-old University of Miami student who turned herself in on Tuesday to begin a prison sentence for a deadly drunk driving accident.
Ivanna Villanueva, along with her attorney and family members, arrived at the Miami-Dade courthouse on Tuesday morning for a final hearing before she would officially surrender. As part of the process, she was required to take a drug test. Villanueva was unable to complete the first test. During a second test, the result tested positive for a banned substance, sources told CBS 4.
Ed Griffith, a Miami-Dade State Attorney’s Office spokesman, would not confirm the test result, but did acknowledge there was an issue.
“The issues are relating to concerns related to medical prescriptions, which may or may not be posing a problem,” Griffith said.
Griffith told CBS 4’s Peter D’Oench, “What I can say is that there will be an analysis tomorrow in court explaining whether or not we have doctor’s orders that are being followed and can raise a concern or not.”
The hearing was re-set for Wednesday when a full analysis of the test result will be presented in court. Villanueva’s family will also have to produce a note from her doctor that states she was prescribed the medication.
The terms of Villanueva’s plea deal include three years in prison, 15 years of probation and one thousand hours of community service for the deadly 2011 accident that claimed the life of Eyder Ayala. Villanueva will also have to make a donation to Mothers Against Drunk Driving on the anniversary of Ayala’s death.
If Villanueva fails to pass the drug test, her sentence will radically change.
“Illegal substance abuse as part of the deal can lead to a 15-year prison term,” said Griffith.
The accident occurred at the intersection of LeJeune Road and Majorca Avenue. According to police, Villanueva was driving at a high rate of speed when she slammed into the rear Ayala’s car. Ayala, a mother to five and grandmother to seven, died at the scene.
Article source: http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/06/18/3458496/um-student-in-fatal-dui-crash.html
MINNEAPOLIS — The Minnesota Twins received a scare early Tuesday morning when a bus carrying several of the team’s youngest prospects was involved in a crash outside of Jacksonville, Fla., with a car going the wrong way.
The Twins’ rookie league team was en route to Elizabethton, Tenn., to start its season on Thursday.
Twins general manager Terry Ryan said there were no injuries suffered among the players. “Everybody came out all right,” Terry Ryan said. “I believe they arrived in Elizabethton this afternoon.”
Ryan praised the bus driver, whose quick thinking apparently averted an even more tragic incident.
“Every indication is the bus driver did a heck of a job staying out of harm’s way,” Ryan said. “That’s not something you expect to see, a guy coming the wrong way down the interstate. …
“If you ride around in those buses enough in the minor leagues, you know how important it is to have a good bus driver. We must have a good one, because he alleviated a tragedy.”
The driver of the car was killed in the accident. “It’s tragic,” Ryan said. “You have to feel for any family that loses a member.”
Top pick in town
Righthanded pitcher Kohl Stewart, whom the Twins selected with the fourth pick in this month’s draft, was in town Tuesday, and according to Ryan, was going through the medical portion of his contract negotiations with the club.
Stewart was spotted in one of the team’s suites at Target Field during the Twins’ 7-5 win over the White Sox as part of what’s expected to be a short visit before he reports to Fort Myers, Fla. pending a contract signing.
Oddly, Ryan had yet to meet Stewart as of Tuesday evening. “I’ll meet him for the first time here on this visit,” Ryan said.
In fact, Ryan has very little to do with draftees and their subsequent handling. He leaves that to the scouting department. “People in that department are involved from start to finish,” he said. “There’s no sense in (me) getting involved. (The scouting department) knows what to do, and they go do it.”
Busy day
Ryan spent his entire off day at Target Field taking in all three classes of the high school championship games on Monday.
“I think that’s part of the responsibility for the Twins,” Ryan said. “For one, we hosted it. Secondly, that’s part of amateur baseball, which is our lifeblood. Thirdly, there were players we were interested in.”
Ryan didn’t stop there, adding: ”It was probably the most beautiful day we’ve had all spring and summer. There’s something that’s a good feeling when you watch those teams — especially the smaller ones — that come from outstate to play in this facility. We believe in amateur baseball. That’s part of the responsibility of being a professional franchise in this state. It was a good day for all involved.”
B O L D, Kasson-Mantorville, and Mounds View high schools each won championships.
Making progress
Wilkin Ramirez (concussion) arrived in Fort Myers over the weekend to start baseball activities at the team’s minicamp, but if he progresses as Ryan expects, he won’t have to wait long to get into game action with the Fort Myers Miracle.
“We’re looking at probably another two days before he goes out and plays for Fort Myers,” Ryan said. “Maybe Thursday. Then we’ll see how he does. Just like (Trevor) Plouffe, I would anticipate he’ll be on a rehab until we’re certain he’s ready to produce.”
Ryan downplayed any notion that Ramirez wouldn’t be reinstated to the big league roster once he’s healthy and ready. “We’re a little short on center fielders,” he said.
Meanwhile, center fielder Aaron Hicks (hamstring) is progressing nicely, and has taken batting practice and fielded fly balls in the outfield. He also has done some agility drills.
“He’s getting there,” Ryan said. “It’s a good sign. I’m kind of waiting for the trainers and doctors to tell me how close he is.” Ryan said that Hicks is still not eligible to return from the DL for a week, so no definite decision has been made regarding if he’ll need a rehab stint.
“If he has to go on one,” Ryan said, “it would be for a little amount of time, I would think. I guess we’ll have to see in the next two or three days.”
Line drives
* Josh Willingham (knee) was back in left field to start Tuesday’s game, which caused Ryan to assume that the veteran responded well to his first cortisone shot ever. Willingham had the shot on Saturday night. “We wouldn’t have put him out there if we didn’t feel he was ready to go,” Ryan said. Willingham was replaced in the ninth inning by Oswaldo Arcia, who shifted from right field when Chris Parmelee entered the game for defensive purposes
* Ryan provided a limited update on Double-A New Britain pitcher Alex Meyer (right shoulder), only saying that the organization will be very careful with him in order to avoid any setbacks. “I’m not going to put an ETA on him,” Ryan said. “But he’s going to start throwing here shortly. He played catch recently and feels pretty good.” Ryan said the goal with Meyer is to build up his innings count. Meyer is about halfway to the 129 innings he threw all of last season. That’s a number Ryan said he would prefer to see Meyer exceed this season.
Article source: http://www.1500espn.com/sportswire/Notebook_Twins_minor_league_team_involved_in_scary_bus_accident061813
Posted: Tuesday, June 18, 2013 8:00 pm
PRO BASEBALL: Elizabethton Twins bus involved in fatal wreck
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A bus carrying the Elizabethton Twins’ Appalachian League baseball team was involved in a wrong-way interstate crash in Florida that killed the driver of the other car.
Florida Highway Patrol Sgt. Dylan Bryan says no one on the Twins bus was injured in the crash that occurred about 4:25 a.m. Tuesday near Jacksonville. A second bus picked up the team and went on to Elizabethton, Tenn. The Twins open their season Thursday. Bryan says the driver of a black Honda died. The car was traveling south in the northbound lanes on Interstate 295 when it collided head-on with the bus.
The driver was described as a man in his mid-20s. His identity was being withheld until family is notified.
“Meet the Sox” tonight
The annual “Meet the Sox” event will be held today at DeVault Stadium. Gates open at 5:30 p.m.
Fans will have a chance to meet members of the Appalachian League’s Bristol White Sox. The team will then have a workout under the lights.
Grimm pitches tonight
Virginia High graduate Justin Grimm will make his 13th start of the season tonight for the Texas Rangers.
The right-hander will face the Oakland Athletics for the second time this season and the third time in his career. Grimm is 5-5 with a 5.59 ERA.
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WEST, Texas (AP) — While a manure plant blast in a city of West shop-worn most of a nursing home subsequent to it, roughly all of a residents survived that initial night.
But dual months after a blast, 14 of a residents have died.
That’s roughly twice as many residents who would be approaching to die in a normal dual months during West Rest Haven, executive Rose Ann Morris told The Dallas Morning News (http://dallasne.ws/17jHmJX ).
Many of West Rest Haven’s residents were already sick, though experts and kin of those who have died given a Apr 17 blast contend a surprising highlight of a blast could have hastened their deaths.
“At this state in their life, all is ostensible to be rolling along uniformly … a pacific existence,” pronounced Jeanette Ayers, whose mother, Mary Jaska, died May 30 after pang shop-worn ribs, concussion and bruises in a blast. “And that was all but.”
The blast killed 15 people, harmed 200 and shop-worn most of a surrounding neighborhood, including West Rest Haven, that is walking stretch from a plant.
A poignant series of a people replaced by a blast were in their 70s and 80s. Some watched a homes they had lived in for decades get ripped down after a blast caved in roofs and shop-worn walls. Many people mislaid critical documents, paperwork and effects collected over a lifetime.
That startle could have influenced residents’ health, pronounced Dr. George Smith, a nursing home’s medical director, who was also concerned in a evident response to a blast.
“That has to minister to some degree,” Smith said. “If they were already ill, that might be only adequate to pull them over a edge.”
Stasie Janek, 94, was “treated like a queen” during West Rest Haven, her daughter Stasie Cocek said. Janek had insanity and Alzheimer’s disease. The blast forced her to be taken to 4 opposite nursing homes, and Cocek pronounced her medical caring wasn’t as good.
After a fall, she grown a bedsore, and her health declined. She died Jun 7, according to a wake home obituary.
Cocek pronounced she didn’t consider a blast was a approach means of her mother’s death, though it “rushed” a end.
Joe Machovsky, 89, suffered from insanity and seemed some-more confused after a blast, smiling less, his daughter Lillian Christensen said. He died May 26.
“I can’t censure a blast for his death, though it influenced him,” Christensen said. “Took him out of his comfort section and for aged people, that’s unequivocally important.”
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Information from: The Dallas Morning News, http://www.dallasnews.com
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 1 Injured in Rollover Crash
A Weston man is recovering from minor injuries tonight after his car rolled over into a ditch in the Town of Hamburg, just northeast of Athens.
A lieutenant with the Marathon County Sheriff’s Department says the crash happened just after 5 p.m. on highway 107, south of County FF.
The man was the only one in the vehicle at the time. He was transported to a local hospital with only minor injuries.
Mechanical issues are believed to be the cause of the crash.
Article source: http://www.wsaw.com/home/headlines/1-Injured-in-Rollover-Crash-in-Marathon-County-212090181.html
A 28-year-old Jacksonville man was killed in a wrong-way collision Tuesday with a minor league baseball team bus on Interstate 295 in Jacksonville.
Corshane Brown was traveling south in a Honda in a northbound lane of the interstate near Pritchard Road about 4:25 a.m. and collided with the bus that was transporting players from the Elizabethton, Tenn., Twins, a minor league team of the Minnesota Twins.
Brown, who was not wearing a seat belt, was pronounced dead at the scene, according to the Florida Highway Patrol. No one in the bus was injured.
The team plays in the Appalachian League. They were traveling from Fort Myers, where the Twins have the minor league Fort Myers Miracle, according to the organization.
The bus driver had just traveled over the overpass and saw the car in the same inside lane. Both drivers tried to avoid a collision, said Sgt. Dylan Bryan of the Highway Patrol, but hit head-on when they swerved into the median.
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Man shot multiple times at trailer park
A 26-year-old man is in serious condition after being shot at a Westside trailer park Tuesday morning.
The man was shot about 3:30 a.m. while exiting a trailer at the Pine Breeze complex at 9842 103rd St.
“He was shot multiple times, one of the shots was to the face,” Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office detective Jessica Shouse said.
Police had no details about the shooter and are asking for anyone with information to call the Sheriff’s Office at (904) 630-0500, or CrimeStoppers (888) 277-8477(TIPS).
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CLAY
Guilty plea for attempt to murder mother
A Clay County woman pleaded guilty this week to robbing and attempting to murder her 70-year-old mother.
In October 2012 police crawled through a window in a Green Cove Springs home to find Diane Knapper on the floor with skull fractures and parts of her scalp torn from her head. She told police her 49-year-old daughter, Kelly Diane Rose, had beaten her with a hammer.
Rose also stole her mother’s credit cards and check books. Videos showed her using the credit cards just after the attack. She was found living in a Philips Highway motel in Jacksonville.
At the time of the attack, Green Cove Springs police detective James Acres said about Knapper, “It really is amazing that she survived this.”
Rose agreed to spend 30 years in prison as part of the plea deal, but she will be formally sentenced next month.
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for killing neighbor
A 66-year-old Flagler Beach man convicted of shooting and killing a neighbor who didn’t like his barking dogs was sentenced to life in prison Tuesday.
Paul Miller told police that Dana Mulhall, his 52-year-old neighbor on South Flagler Avenue, had shouted profane words at him months earlier. Then on March 14 he said he heard Mulhall cursing his dogs, so he went outside with a 9mm handgun in his back pocket, according to an arrest report.
Mulhall continued to curse and shook the fence. Miller told police that Mulhall said he had a gun and thought he was reaching for it, the report said.
He was shot five times, in what witnesses described as a “slow” and “methodical” way. Mulhall was unarmed.
Miller was convicted of second-degree murder in May.
Andrew Pantazi
Article source: http://jacksonville.com/news/crime/2013-06-18/story/law-disorder-wrong-way-crash-involves-minor-league-baseball-team
Contractors are working to move a two-metre high boulder off a Dunedin street, after it crashed off the hillside late last night.
Police believe the slip on Marne street in Andersons Bay was caused by the persistent rain which has lingered over the city over the past three or four days.
They have also heaped praise on the motorist who came across the enormous boulder, as they stuck around until emergency services arrived to divert traffic.
The street remains closed as contractors work to clear the boulder.
Article source: http://www.farmingshow.com/news/regls/691036104-boulder-crashes-onto-dunedin-street
(KCEN) — The West Raven Haven Nursing Home was one of a hardest strike buildings during a manure plant explosion.
While usually one studious died a night of a blast, a series of patients that have died given continues to grow.
The mishap caused by that night was terrible for healthy individuals, so only suppose a impact it had on a aged and ill.
The Dallas Morning News ran an essay this morning observant that 14 former West nursing home residents have died given a blast.
Nursing home employees we spoke to could not endorse that series since a survivors are widespread all over Central Texas and beyond.
Many patients going to other nursing homes or now vital with family members.
Dr. George Smith who is a medical executive for a West Raven Nursing Home pronounced he does knows of several patients who’s genocide were quickened by a explosion.
The aged are some-more influenced by dire events and relocating to a new home or worrying about friends who are elsewhere can put outrageous highlight on them.
Dr. Smith says, “Any change bothers aged folks, they are used to a same, regiment, all a time… It maybe only adequate to take somebody who is flattering ill anyway put them over a edge.”
Now, Dr. Smith pronounced that a best thing former patients can do is try to lapse to their aged habits and try to settle a clarity of normalcy in their lives.
Article source: http://www.kcentv.com/story/22626471/14-nursing-home-surviors
A FAILING nursing home did not surprise a family of an 84-year-old proprietor that she had died and her physique had been cremated.
Distraught son Stephen Jukes, 56, returned from a outing to Bulgaria, where he was building a house, to learn staff during Landmere Nursing Home, Wilford, had not told him his mom was dead. He said: “I phoned adult to contend we would be visiting her on a Sunday and a chairman on a phone only pronounced ‘she’s dead’. That’s how we found out.”
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‘So hurt’: Stephen Jukes, 56 and mom Mary Jukes, left. Far left: Landmere Nursing Home.
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His mom Mary Jukes had died 3 months before.
“I afterwards found out they had cremated her during Wilford Hill and there is no board to symbol her death. we was so taken aback by what had happened we didn’t know utterly how to react,” pronounced a Beeston resident. “She was ostensible to be buried with my father,” he added.
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At a time of Mrs Jukes’ death, in Feb 2009, a home was being run by Southern Cross.
Before Mr Jukes set off for Bulgaria he says he left created and written hit sum with a home and he had also done it famous that he was to be contacted should anything unfavourable occur to his mother, who suffered from dementia.
“I’m so harm by what has happened, it was a lot to understanding with,” he said.
“I started celebration heavily and it was awful. we was in a bad way.
“She was given a pauper’s funeral,” he said.
Mr Jukes, who owns a record emporium in a West End Arcade, pronounced he started authorised record opposite Southern Cross though he had to lift out since it became too costly to continue.
The father-of-two, told his story after a Post suggested that a caring home was being investigated by a military for a purported indignity of patients. No arrests have been done to date.
The home is in a routine of shutting down after a ban news from inspectors operative for a Care Quality Commission, and Notts County Council has consummated a agreement with home.
A matter on a website for Southern Cross says: “In Sep 2011 Southern Cross Healthcare Group PLC announced that it was restructuring and that this would meant that all a caring homes it operated would be eliminated to other operators.
“Southern Cross is now in a routine of a well-off breeze down of a operations.”
Article source: http://www.thisisnottingham.co.uk/Nursing-home-didn-t-tell-mum-dead/story-19316167-detail/story.html
CHRYSLER CAVES: Chrysler reversed course and agreed to recall 2.7 million Jeeps Tuesday. The company insists the vehicles are safe, and initially denied the government’s request to recall them. But it says it realizes customers are worried.
THE ISSUE: The recall covers the 1993-2004 model Grand Cherokee and 2002-2007 model Liberty. The vehicles have gas tanks behind the rear axle, which the government says puts them at risk of a fire after a rear-impact crash.
THE FIX: Chrysler will install trailer hitches on vehicles without them for greater protection. The company will start notifying owners of the recall in about a month.
Article source: http://www.bradenton.com/2013/06/18/4573691/news-summary-chrysler-agrees-to.html
MIAMI — One of several Cuban dissidents recently allowed to visit Europe and the U.S. after Cuba changed its travel laws said Tuesday she decided to seek refuge in Miami after facing continued repression on the island.
Rosa Maria Paya said she and her family have been the subject of threats, harassment and increased vigilance since her father’s death last year and following her return to Cuba in April.
“We wanted to rest a bit from the persecution we faced in Cuba,” Paya said, “and continue working on the opposition’s proposals for change and transition to democracy.”
Paya, 24, is the daughter of the late Oswaldo Paya, the lead organizer of the Varela Project, a signature-gathering drive regarded as the largest nonviolent campaign to change the system Fidel Castro established in 1959. The petition asked authorities for a referendum on guaranteeing rights such as freedom of speech and assembly in Cuba.
In July 2012, Paya and youth activist Harold Cepero died in a car crash in Bayamo, Cuba. The two men and another passenger were in a car driven by Spaniard Angel Carromero, who lost control and struck a tree, according to government authorities. Carromero was convicted of vehicular homicide and sent to Spain to serve a four-year sentence.
Paya’s daughter, wife and others have insisted the crash was not an accident. They assert that witness accounts, text messages and statements made after the crash raise questions about the Cuban government’s account. Rosa Maria Paya spoke with government officials in the U.S. and Europe to press for an international investigation.
Rosa Maria Paya was allowed to leave in April after Cuba eliminated the exit permit that had been required of islanders for five decades. She was one of several prominent Cuban dissidents to visit the U.S. and appears to be the first to have returned to Cuba and then sought status as a political refugee in the U.S.
She said that when she returned to Cuba, immigration officials at the airport told her, “Welcome.”
But the threats, vigilance and oppression against her family and others involved in the movement her father started intensified, she said.
The decision of the Paya family – six members in all – to leave the island is likely to be seen as a black eye to the Cuban government, which has been trying to portray itself as a more open society since enacting a slate of social and economic reforms in recent years, said Jaime Suchlicki, a professor at the University of Miami.
“It makes it look like the Cuban government is oppressive, which it is,” Suchlicki said. On the other hand, with one less dissident on the island, “I don’t think the Cuban government is going to be too upset.”
Ofelia Acevedo, Oswaldo Paya’s wife and Rosa Maria’s mother, said she and other family members are residing in the U.S. as political refugees, not exiles, and do not plan to ask for political asylum. Under the Cuban migratory changes enacted in January, Cubans can stay abroad for two years before forfeiting full citizenship rights.
The U.S. State Department declined to provide any specific information about the family’s case.
Acevedo said her family’s stay in Miami was of a “temporary nature.” But she also declined to provide any specifics on when they would return.
“We will continue fighting until real change is a reality in Cuba,” Acevedo said. “The amount of time it will take, we don’t know. When we are going to return we don’t know either.”
The family vowed to continue the work of Oswaldo Paya from Miami in conjunction with activists on the island. But Suchlicki said their departure was a setback for the Christian Liberation movement Paya started.
“They’re going to continue, but it’s one of many groups in exile,” Suchlicki said. “It’s a limited impact that they will have in Miami. Internally they would have more impact.”
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Article source: http://www.bradenton.com/2013/06/18/4573753/cuban-dissident-repression-forced.html
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DISSIDENT’S FAMILY TO DISCUSS LEAVING CUBA
The daughter of a prominent Cuban dissident who died in a car crash says her family decided to about her family’s decision to seek refuge in the U.S. Rosa Maria Paya and her mother are expected to speak with reporters in Miami Tuesday.
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Attorneys trying to pick a jury in George Zimmerman’s murder trial have selected a pool of 40 potential jurors who will go on to a second round of questioning. The pool was whittled down Tuesday on the seventh day of jury selection for the neighborhood watch volunteer charged with fatally shooting Trayvon Martin.
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A bus carrying a minor league team affiliated with the Minnesota Twins was involved in a wrong-way crash on Interstate 275 in Jacksonville. The driver of the car that was traveling south in the northbound lanes of Interstate 294 died in the collision. No one on the bus was hurt.
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An 11-year-old boy who was bitten on the leg by an eastern diamondback rattlesnake on May 30. He received 80 vials of antivenin during his 15-day stay in the hospital.
Article source: http://www.bradenton.com/2013/06/18/4573798/5-things-to-know-in-florida-for.html
Jonathan Sierra, 30, was driving a 2004 Chrysler passenger car south on I-95 Sunday morning when he traveled off the roadway and onto the right shoulder for unknown reasons, according to the North Carolina State Highway Patrol. The wreck was reported about 5:20 a.m. a couple miles north of Lumberton in Robeson County.
Sierra’s vehicle struck the guardrail and then a small reflectorized sign, according to the report. The vehicle, while overturning, then struck a retention fence and fence post.
The Chrysler came to a rest upright on the shoulder facing east, according to the report. No other vehicles were involved in the wreck.
Article source: http://www.news-journalonline.com/article/20130618/NEWS/130619757?Title=Deltona-man-killed-in-N-C-crash
CLEARWATER –
An elderly man was injured Tuesday afternoon after police said he crashed into a Clearwater pawn shop.
The crash happened at 1:45 p.m. at Quick Cash Pawn on 1735 Drew St.
Investigators said they believe the man was trying to park his Cadillac when he hit the gas pedal instead of the brake.
The driver sustained minor cuts and was taken to Mease Countryside Hospital. A passenger in the car was not injured.
The owner of the store, who was inside the building at the time, was also not injured.
According to reports, the entire Cadillac was inside the store when police and firefighters arrived. Firefighters used a large jack to stabilize the front of the store until more permanent repairs can be made.
The investigation continues.
Article source: http://www.baynews9.com/content/news/baynews9/news/article.html/content/news/articles/bn9/2013/6/18/elderly_driver_crash.html
WEST, Texas (AP) While a manure plant blast in a city of West shop-worn most of a nursing home subsequent to it, roughly all of a residents survived that initial night.
But dual months after a blast, 14 of a residents have died.
That’s roughly twice as many residents who would be approaching to die in a normal dual months during West Rest Haven, executive Rose Ann Morris told The Dallas Morning News (http://dallasne.ws/17jHmJX ).
Many of West Rest Haven’s residents were already sick, though experts and kin of those who have died given a Apr 17 blast contend a surprising highlight of a blast could have hastened their deaths.
“At this state in their life, all is ostensible to be rolling along uniformly … a pacific existence,” pronounced Jeanette Ayers, whose mother, Mary Jaska, died May 30 after pang shop-worn ribs, concussion and bruises in a blast. “And that was all but.”
The blast killed 15 people, harmed 200 and shop-worn most of a surrounding neighborhood, including West Rest Haven, that is walking stretch from a plant.
A poignant series of a people replaced by a blast were in their 70s and 80s. Some watched a homes they had lived in for decades get ripped down after a blast caved in roofs and shop-worn walls. Many people mislaid critical documents, paperwork and effects collected over a lifetime.
That startle could have influenced residents’ health, pronounced Dr. George Smith, a nursing home’s medical director, who was also concerned in a evident response to a blast.
“That has to minister to some degree,” Smith said. “If they were already ill, that might be only adequate to pull them over a edge.”
Stasie Janek, 94, was “treated like a queen” during West Rest Haven, her daughter Stasie Cocek said. Janek had insanity and Alzheimer’s disease. The blast forced her to be taken to 4 opposite nursing homes, and Cocek pronounced her medical caring wasn’t as good.
After a fall, she grown a bedsore, and her health declined. She died Jun 7, according to a wake home obituary.
Cocek pronounced she didn’t consider a blast was a approach means of her mother’s death, though it “rushed” a end.
Joe Machovsky, 89, suffered from insanity and seemed some-more confused after a blast, smiling less, his daughter Lillian Christensen said. He died May 26.
“I can’t censure a blast for his death, though it influenced him,” Christensen said. “Took him out of his comfort section and for aged people, that’s unequivocally important.”
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Information from: The Dallas Morning News, http://www.dallasnews.com
Article source: http://www.krgv.com/news/after-blast-nursing-home-deaths-higher-than-usual-451979
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