Man allegedly kept 2 wives in same complex

OVERLAND PARK, Kan. – Authorities said a 61-year-old man allegedly married to two women who lived in the same apartment complex faces bigamy and other felony charges.

Officials said police were called to the complex in November when the second wife went to the first wife’s apartment to confront the man and found out he was married to someone else.

The man was arrested this week and made his first court appearance Wednesday.

The man was married his first wife 22 years ago. Court records said the second marriage occurred in January 2006. Both women are in their 50s.

The man was also charged with using his father’s Social Security card to lease one of the apartments and with stealing jewelry and money from his second wife.

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California police: Four officers shot in Oakland

Four police officers were shot in an Oakland, California, neighborhood, Saturday afternoon, state police confirmed.

Sgt. Trent Cross confirmed the shooting, but wouldn’t disclose if a suspect is in custody.

Oakland Fire Department spokesman David Brue said the shootings occurred in two different locations.

Two of the officers were taken to Highland hospital, but he didn’t know where the other two officers would be transported too, Bruce said.

Aerial video from the scene off East 27th Street in Oakland showed crime-scene investigators blocking off a a portion of a street, and a sidewalk smeared with pools of blood.

Law enforcement swarmed store fronts and lawns near the intersection with Fruitvale Avenue.

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Air Force nurse charged in three patients’ deaths

CNN-An Air Force nurse has been charged with murdering three terminally ill patients by giving them fatal overdoses, the Air Force said Tuesday.

Capt. Michael Fontana, a nurse at Wilford Hall Medical Center at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas, also was charged Monday with conduct unbecoming an officer for changing a medical document.

“The charges are the result of an Air Force investigation that occurred after irregularities were discovered in Capt. Fontana’s administration of medications which may have resulted in the death of an end-of-life patient,” hospital spokesman David Smith told reporters.

The nurse was charged with three counts of violating Article 118 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice. “It is considered murder,” Smith said.

After an Article 32 hearing, akin to a civilian grand jury proceeding, the commander will decide whether the case goes to court-martial.

The three deaths occurred in July, Smith said. He cited the privacy act in refusing to divulge the suspect’s age and hometown.

He said he did not know the motive but was confident no other patients were victimized.

“We know that there are no other patients involved in this case,” he said.

Fontana, an intensive-care unit nurse who has been working at the hospital since 2006, the year he joined the Air Force, has been released on his own recognizance and is continuing to work at the hospital, though he is no longer involved in patient care, Smith said.

“As far as we can tell, he has been an exemplary nurse,” Smith said.

Fontana also served as a nurse at the Air Force Theater Hospital in Balad, Iraq, Smith said. His work there was investigated, “and there was nothing found,” he said.

A call to a San Antonio phone number listed as belonging to Michael Fontana got a message that said, “Thank you for calling. Due to the ongoing investigation, I have no comment for you right now, but I do appreciate your call and will talk to you soon.”

Relatives of the dead patients have requested privacy, the Air Force said.

Wilford Hall Medical Center is the Air Force’s largest medical facility.

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Man mistakes woman for a monkey, shoots her

According to MSNBC news, in KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia – Police said a man shot his neighbor, mistaking her for a monkey as she was picking sapodilla fruit in his tree.

Yahaya Othman, police chief in eastern Pahang state, said the woman was gathering fruit Thursday when her neighbor shot her.

The man came home and saw rustling in the tree and fired into it, Yahaya said. “Then there was screaming … and only then did he know it was his neighbor.”

He said the woman was hospitalized with a wound to the abdomen but her condition was stable Friday.

He said police were investigating the man, a volunteer security corps member, for illegally discharging a firearm, which carries a maximum prison term of two years.

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Nine bodies found in one grave

Nine bodies have been found in a common grave in the desert south of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, according to Chihuahua state prosecutor’s spokeswoman Daniela Gonzalez.

Investigators have yet to determine the identities of the seven men and two women found in the grave, Gonzalez said. They have not released information on how they were killed or how long they have been there.

Juarez, which is across the border from El Paso, Texas, has become one of the major battlegrounds as drug cartels fight both each other and Mexican authorities. The conflict has made violence increasingly common in Juarez, Tijuana and other Mexican border towns.

Extreme violence among warring drug cartels and the Mexican government has long plagued Juarez and the state of Chihuahua, but the situation has been getting worse.

Last month, the city’s chief of police was obliged to quit after threats from organized crime to kill a policeman every day that he remained on the job.

Earlier this month, the U.S. Consulate in Juarez specifically warned Americans to avoid an area southeast of the city.

The discovery of the bodies comes as 5,000 Mexican soldiers are descending this weekend on Juarez in an effort to end the violence that has claimed more than 400 lives so far this year.

Juarez Mayor Jose Reyes Ferriz told CNN he is hopeful Operacion Conjunto Chihuahua (Chihuahua Joint Operation) will be successful.

“The reality is that the military presence in the last several weeks has caused the violence to subside,” he said. “We were averaging about 10 murders a week; and since February 26, when the troops starting arriving, we have been averaging about one.”

Enrique Torres, spokesman for the Chihuahua Joint Operation, said by Sunday there will be 7,500 military personnel, 2,300 federal police and 1,600 city police working together to patrol the city and aggressively fight the cartels.

“We are launching a full frontal attack” Torres said. “We will also be tackling other types of organized crime — money laundering and kidnappings.”

Corruption among the police force has been a major concern to local and international authorities. Torres said the city has been preparing for a year to “clean up the local police”.

Already, he said, more than 500 city police officers have been fired because they failed to pass the “trust test.” As part of the “clean-up,” federal authorities have been requiring officers to take a polygraph test.

To prevent corruption among the just arrived soldiers, Torres said they will be frequently rotated. “They will only work in the region one to two months and then they will be sent to other parts of the country.”

Ferriz, the mayor, said government officials are doing everything in their power to stop the violence; they have brought in consultants from Colombia and adapted programs that have proven successful there, such as a civilian corruption watchdog program.

But he explained that a big part of the problem is coming from the north.

“The majority of the weapons used for homicides here have been identified as coming from the United States” he said.

Ferriz said that during a recent raid, local police confiscated two .50-caliber military-style rifles. Some weeks later they arrested another man bringing in another .50-caliber rifle.

“He bought it off the internet in the U.S.,” Ferrez said. “It is so easy there for organized crime to get access to these types of weapons. The arms and cash contraband into Mexico from the United States must be stopped.”

Ferriz siad he plans to travel next week to Washington to meet with U.S. lawmakers about the security situation in and around Juarez.

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five human heads found in ice chests

Five human heads were found in ice chests on Tuesday under a ficus tree in the central Mexican state of Jalisco, police said.

The grisly find appeared to be the latest indication of drug cartels fighting for supremacy in battles that have left thousands dead.

Police in the municipality of Ixtlahuacan del Rio were informed of the discovery at 2 a.m., the prosecutor’s office said in a written statement.

Each head was found in a separate ice chest beside a road leading to the city of   Guadalajara  police said.

The tops of the ice chests were inscribed with messages, among them, one that threatened further violence.

“Like these, I am going to finish everyone,” says one. “I’m going after you, ‘Goyo.’”

Another said, “Here we go, ‘Goyo,’ idiot.”

The victims’ eyes were taped shut and the heads had been severed only a few hours before they were discovered, the statement said.

The victims — all of them men — were estimated at 30 to 45 years of age.

No bullet wounds were visible and there was no indication the men had been tortured, although experts would need to study the bodies to be sure, it added.

Municipal police said one of the heads appeared to belong to someone known in the community.

Jalisco is near the state of Sinaloa, where the Sinaloa cartel is based.

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Woman has brain surgery for weight loss

LOS ANGELES – Brain surgery for weight loss?

West Virginia mother of two Carol Poe, 60, is only the second person in the United States to undergo deep brain stimulation for weight loss after trying everything from diets to having her stomach stapled.

Last month, she took part in a clinical trial at West Virginia University hospital in which neurosurgeons drilled into her brain and used electricity to control her feelings of hunger and satisfaction.

Poe’s story will be told on ABC Television’s “Nightline” program on Monday, March 9.

Poe, who is 5 feet 2 inches tall and who weighed 230 pounds before the surgery, said that at her heaviest she weighed about 490 pounds.

Dr Julian Bailes, chairman of West Virginia University’s department of neurosurgery, said Poe was a good candidate for the radical treatment.

“This is not for overweight patients. It’s for obese patients,” Bailes told “Nightline.”

“This is a frontier of medicine…to be able to generate tiny pulses of electricity in these deep nuclei of the brain, and to see what effect they may have on behavior, including in this case the behavior of eating and the issue of uncontrolled appetite,” he said.

Bailes told Reuters that the West Virginia University hospital was the only one in the United States, and the only center he knew of worldwide, using the deep brain stimulation technique specifically on obese patients.

He said the first patient underwent surgery in November 2008. The second, Poe, took place in February. Both are part of a clinical trial, approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, conducted by fellow neurosurgeons Michael Oh and Donald Whiting.

Poe was awake during the three-hour surgery, in which wires carrying an electrical impulse were inserted into her brain in the region where the stomach is controlled, and linked to two pacemaker devices implanted in her chest.

The voltage going into her brain is turned up slowly over future months to give Poe the sensation of feeling full.

“We hope her sensation is a sensation of satiety, a sensation of fullness, a lack of compulsion to consume excess calories,” Bailes told “Nightline”. “And a sensation again of satisfaction, of not having the feeling we need to eat some more when we know we don’t.”

Doctors said it would be several months before any weight loss is noticeable while the voltage to the brain is gradually increased. But a week after the voltage was turned on, Poe told “Nightline” she had already lost three pounds.

“When I eat, I get full faster. I just don’t have the cravings like I used to have,” she said.

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Food Stemp Diet

CNN correspondent Sean Callebs has just finished a long assignment: living on food stamps during all of February. He tracked his experiences on the American Morning blog.

This meant no eating out, no food on the run while covering stories and no enjoying king cake and other New Orleans specialties during Mardi Gras.

The food stamp program, newly named the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), is run by the Department of Agriculture and provides food to those in need. The latest numbers show 31 million Americans are relying on supplemental food assistance to get by every month.

Callebs is based in New Orleans, so he worked through the Louisiana Department of Social Services. The agency gave him a gift card worth $176, the maximum amount of assistance for which he was eligible, instead of an actual EBT card or food stamps.

This week, he reflected on what he learned in an interview with House Call.

House Call: Did living on a limited food budget have an impact on your health?

Callebs: I wouldn’t say it had a big impact on my health. I think that towards the end, I wondered if having fewer calories than I normally eat and also not having as much meat and fish — I wondered if that affected my energy levels. I was running maybe 4 to 5 miles and toward the end of this diet when I got to three miles I just got kind of winded. I don’t know why that happened.

HC: Were there also some benefits?

Callebs: I think I lost weight. I wouldn’t say noticeable. It’s not like I came out of this 30 days later and people were like “Wow, what happened to you?” but all my clothes are looser. I don’t have a scale, but I can tell you my pants are much looser.

HC: You write in your blog about your love of diet soda and how you had to drop it.

Callebs: (Laughing) It’s funny, because for the first 10 days it was really on my mind a lot. It was probably more than anything else I missed — probably a sad commentary on my lifestyle. Then toward the end, I didn’t even think about it and my photographer, as a joke the last day, he brought over two 20 ounce bottles of diet soda and said, “At midnight tonight you can have these,” and I didn’t drink them. I don’t miss it as much and, I can’t guarantee this is what caused it, but I’ve always had a problem with acid reflux and once I got started eating on the food stamp diet, it seemed to go away. I can’t conclusively say that that was the cause, but I sleep better and I feel better.

HC: How does your $176 compare with the average food stamp allotment?

Callebs: I think it’s difficult to say that there’s an average food stamp allotment because it really breaks down to how many people you have in the family and to what degree you live at or below the poverty level. I went to the state, and I said, “I want to pretend I have no income so how much can I get?” and they said this is the maximum you can get: $176. I did get a lot of e-mails, A LOT of e-mails, from people who have lived with government assistance and they said, “Look, $176 is a ton of money to live on. So you think it’s hard? You should put yourself in our shoes.” That was sobering because I thought $6.28 a day — that’s basically a super-sized fast-food meal.

(According to SNAP, the average monthly stipend was about $96 per person and about $215 per household in 2007.)

HC: So, what did you learn?

Callebs: I think that I learned that you can stretch $176. It sounds intimidating if you’ve always had enough, but if you haven’t had enough then you learn pretty quickly how to make ends meet. That’s what I learned pretty quickly. Snacks went out the window, name brands went out the window but, all in all, I ate pretty healthy.

HC: Are you going to continue with this new way of living?

Callebs: I am. I just got back from the grocery store and I spent $27 and I got plenty of food to last me for a few days. I’ve already wrapped it up and put it in the freezer. I’m still buying the stuff I bought before. It’s a diet I’m sure I’ll stick to. I feel good.

This story was pulled out from cnnhealth.com

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13 million young Americans uninsured

According to CNN, They’re generally healthy and have a long life ahead of them. The health insurance industry even calls them ‘the young invincibles.’

So, what’s the problem? Young adults, ages 19 to 29, are the largest age group of uninsured people across the country.

For Maryland resident Bree Honey, all she can do for her chronic back pain right now is to exercise at the gym where she works, and take Tylenol PM instead of other medicine she needs.

“I’m definitely working out right, to try and keep my strength up and to help my immune system right now. … It’s the best thing I can do for myself,” Honey said.

Why? She has to put all her money toward expensive drugs for her depression — without health insurance.

“I am buying my own prescription drugs by myself. … And I have to pay for that out of pocket every single month. So it’s very difficult on me,” she said.

At 20, she’s too old to be covered by her parents’ policy since she’s no longer in school. She makes too much to qualify for public health care, but can’t afford private insurance — and doesn’t yet qualify for coverage at her new job.

“I’m just a struggling student right out of college, trying to make my way. And I can’t–I don’t have the money right now for insurance,” Honey said. “If there’s some way that the government could get me, or get everyone, just a minimal coverage … I would even pay for it out of my taxes if I had to.”

Many other 20-somethings early in their careers don’t have jobs that offer health benefits.

“Only about one-half of all young adults who are working are offered coverage through an employer, compared to about 75 percent of adults who are offered coverage through an employer, over age 30,” said Sara Collins with the nonpartisan health care group, Commonwealth Fund.

And it’s a common problem. According to the latest date from the Census Bureau, in 2007, there were an estimated 13.2 million uninsured young adults. It’s the fastest growing group of the 46 million uninsured Americans today.

Other uninsured rates, according to the data:

• Children under 19: 11 percent

• Ages 30-35: 23 percent

• Ages 36-49: 17 percent

• Ages 50-64: 13 percent.

Reducing the number of uninsured young adults is a top priority for President Obama.

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