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Jahi McMath's Brain Death Ignites Difficult Debate

Sat, 4 Jan 2014 02:17:32 +0000

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — A California hospital and family are embroiled in a harrowing legal and medical fight that has reignited the debate about when machines keeping a severely brain-damaged person alive should be turned off.

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Couple Arrested After Children & Dogs Found Neglected

Tue, 20 Nov 2012 19:55:20 +0000

BAGDAD, AZ - Authorities say a man and woman have been arrested after two small children and several animals were found neglected at a home in central Arizona.

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Deputies: Infant Had Blood Alcohol Level of 0.289; Father Arrested

Mon, 29 Oct 2012 17:18:20 +0000

BELLE CHASSE, La. — Authorities arrested a Belle Chasse man who they said poured rum into his 2-month-old son's feeding tube.

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Mom Gets 20 Years For Putting Feces in Child's Feeding Tube

Tue, 5 Apr 2011 18:15:53 +0000

Emily McDonald was sentenced to 20 years in prison for putting feces in her daughter's feeding tube while she was in the hospital.

Nurse fed baby fabric softener

Wed, 22 Apr 2009 05:57:09 +0000

A NURSE fed a premature baby potentially-deadly FABRIC CONDITIONER instead of milk, The Sun can reveal. The toxic Comfort Pure was poured into the newborn boy's stomach via a feeding tube in a mix-up after his mum brought in the liquid to add to

Miracle of girl who finally started eating food... at the age of TEN

Thu, 12 Mar 2009 06:39:37 +0000

Excerpt: A ten-year-old girl has delighted her family by eating food for the first time in her life. Tia-Mae has spent a decade being fed through a tube because she refused to consume anything in the usual way.

Florida Case Reminiscent of Terri Schiavo Dispute

Wed, 4 Jun 2008 21:50:01 +0000

Karen Weber, 57, had a stroke in December of 2007. Shortly thereafter, her husband, Raymond Weber, tried to have her declared incompetent so that he could order her feeding tube removed. Karen Weber's family filed suit on her behalf, contesting Raymond's

Hospice care decision fought

Sat, 20 Oct 2007 21:46:15 +0000

By all accounts, 83-year-old Sam Webster is a very sick man. He's so sick that a doctor who specializes in end-of-life medical issues said he had less than six months to live and belonged in a hospice where he would be kept comfortable until his last b

Saddam says brought to court against his will

Wed, 26 Jul 2006 13:55:40 +0000

How is this a fair trial? His lawyers are targeted for death with half of them already killed and are therefore boycotting the trial, he is being force-fed by the US military despite no evidence of mental incompetency, and he claims that his current attor

Michael Schiavo takes on privacy campaign

Sat, 15 Jul 2006 23:05:00 +0000

From the page: -- The man who last year won a bruising battle to disconnect his brain-damaged wife from a feeding tube is campaigning against government intrusion around the country.

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