When Neil Brown got high on bath salts, he took his skinning knife and slit his face and stomach repeatedly. Brown survived, but authorities say others haven't been so lucky after snorting, injecting or smoking powders with such innocuous-sounding names as Ivory Snow, Red Dove and Vanilla Sky.
Some say the effects of the powders are as powerful as abusing methamphetamine. Increasingly, law enforcement agents and poison control centers say the bath salts with complex chemical names are an emerging menace in several U.S. states where authorities talk of banning their sale.
Saturday, January 22, 2011
Officials fear bath salts are growing drug problem
Officials fear bath salts are growing drug problem - USATODAY.com
Undercover police cleared 'to have sex with activists'
Undercover police cleared 'to have sex with activists' | UK news | guardian.co.uk
Undercover police officers routinely adopted a tactic of "promiscuity" with the blessing of senior commanders, according to a former agent who worked in a secretive unit of the Metropolitan police for four years.
The former undercover policeman claims that sexual relationships with activists were sanctioned for both men and women officers infiltrating anarchist, leftwing and environmental groups.
Mystery surrounds Idaho winner of $190 million
Mystery surrounds Idaho winner of $190 million - FoxNews.com
Holly Lahti burst into the spotlight a week ago in a feel-good story about a single mother who won a $190 million Mega Millions jackpot.
Then came the mugshot: a thin young woman with disheveled brown hair, sporting a black eye and cuts and bruises on her face and neck. It turned out she was separated from a man who court records indicated had abused her, and now has a possible claim to some of the money through a quirk in Idaho law.
Lahti, 29, went underground with her two daughters immediately after learning she had won half of a $380 million jackpot in the Jan. 4 drawing. She has not been seen or heard in public since.
GOP Rep: Mixed seating a "trap" to "silence Republicans" at State of the Union
The Republican strategy to attack and undermine everything the Democrats do is still strong. They are not even interested in governing. They've adopted the Tea Party strategy after attacking government without offering any solutions.
Playboy iPad App Blocked Despite Hef's Tweets
Playboy iPad App Blocked Despite Hef's Tweets
- Way to go, Apple. Someone in the big business world has some decency.
- Way to go, Apple. Someone in the big business world has some decency.
I no Likee Lady Gaga's latest video, "Anatomy of Change." Too macabre and repetitive. She's making some kind of point, I think.
Climate Threatens Birds From Tropics to Mountaintops
Climate Threatens Birds From Tropics to Mountaintops - NYTimes.com
Over the past two decades, an increasing number of settlers who have moved here to farm have impinged on bird habitats and reduced bird populations by cutting down forests and turning grasslands into fields. Now the early effects of global warming and other climate changes have helped send the populations of many local mountain species into a steep downward spiral, from which many experts say they will never recover.
EPA Allows More Ethanol in Fuel for Cars
EPA Allows More Ethanol in Fuel for Cars - FoxNews.com
Nearly two-thirds of cars on the road could have more corn-based ethanol in their fuel tanks under an Environmental Protection Agency decision Friday.
The agency said that 15 percent ethanol blended with gasoline is safe for cars and light-duty trucks manufactured between 2001 and 2006, expanding an October decision that the higher blend is safe for cars built since 2007.The maximum gasoline blend has been 10 percent ethanol.
Nepal communists give up control over ex-fighters
This headline almost sounds hard to believe. Hopefully it's good news:
The head of Nepal's former communist rebels handed command of his fighters over to the government Saturday as part of a peace deal that ended the Himalayan nation's decade-long conflict.
Search widens for 5 missing American sailors
Search widens for 5 missing American sailors - CNN.com
U.S. military aircraft and a Coast Guard cutter Saturday searched a large swath of sea for a catamaran and five American sailors that went missing between Guam and the Philippines.
The 38-foot Pineapple was last seen January 6 in Guam harbor, officials said. The crew was making the 1,400 mile (2,250-km) journey to the island of Cebu to deliver the vessel, Coast Guard officials said.
The crew is experienced and well-provisioned, but the craft has no long-range emergency communications equipment and faced challenging winds during part of the journey, officials said.
Deadly CA crashes end with man beaten by a mob
This is what is called societal breakdown:
In a bizarre and deadly chain of events, a pedestrian was twice struck by hit-and-run drivers, the woman who came to his aid was also hit, and finally the driver trying to help her was beaten and robbed by a mob, police said Friday.
The crashes on a busy Los Angeles-area boulevard left a man dead, a woman injured, a suspect arrested, and detectives stunned.
Friday, January 21, 2011
Pet ferret in Missouri chews off seven of sleeping infant's fingers after crawling onto baby seat
Pet ferret in Missouri chews off seven of sleeping infant's fingers after crawling onto baby seat
A pet ferret chewed off seven of a Missouri infant's fingers, leaving the boy with two thumbs and a pinky.
The ferret feasted on the sleeping 4-month-old's hands after it crawled onto his baby seat about 2:30 a.m. on Jan. 10, authorities said.
2 New Yorkers come to rescue when deranged man attacks flight attendant on JFK-bound plane
2 New Yorkers come to rescue when deranged man attacks flight attendant on JFK-bound plane
Two New Yorkers came to the rescue of a beleaguered flight attendant after he was attacked by a deranged man on a JFK-bound plane, sources said Friday.
One of them, 36-year-old Ramiro Silos, said the burly man was "screaming something about his sons."
"The guy was big and he was screaming, screaming, screaming," Ramiro Silos told The Daily News. "I could not understand him. But when we took him down, we took him down hard."
Santorum invokes Obama’s race in abortion debate
Santorum invokes Obama’s race in abortion debate - Yahoo! News
Rick Santorum says President Obama should be against abortion because Obama is black.
Feds Probe Post-Flu Shot Seizures Among Kids
Feds Probe Post-Flu Shot Seizures Among Kids - CBS News
Government officials are investigating an apparent increase in fever-related seizures in young children after they got a flu shot.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Thursday said there have been 36 confirmed reports of seizures this flu season in children ages 6 months through 2 years. The seizures occurred within one day after they were vaccinated with Fluzone, the only flu shot recommended in the United States for infants and very young children. Ten of the children were hospitalized, but all recovered.
Thursday, January 20, 2011
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