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New Verge fest to feature Weezer, AFI
The festival’s name was selected in an online competition that drew more than 200 entries. Milwaukee area resident Katie Kostuck submitted the winning entry. Milwaukee World Festival Inc., which produces Summerfest and the new festival, will reveal a …
Read More..>>Binghamton University nursing school cuts staff, enrollment
The school of nursing will enroll about 50 fewer undergraduate students in the fall 2010 semester and will not renew 8.5 positions, half of which are full-time jobs, said university spokesman Ryan Yarosh. “Decker School of Nursing has been very …
Read More..>>Lost ‘Dr. Linus’
I’ve got a theory about Ben. Watching him manhandle the Dharma Initiative’s expensive machinery in order to access the ‘frozen donkey wheel,’ and remembering how he told Locke earlier this season that he doesn’t know what ‘the smoke …
Read More..>>SCHOOLS: Retirements could help Wilson budget
RANSOMVILLE ‘” A few retirements could provide some much-needed help for the Wilson Central School District as officials are in the process of creating a budget for the 2010-11 school year. At its meeting Tuesday at W.H. Stevenson Elementary, school …
Read More..>>Greystone hospital nursing supervisor sues alleging racial …
ROBERT SCIARRINO/THE STAR-LEDGER The lobby of the new Greystone Park Psychiatric Hospital in a file photo. PARSIPPANY — A white nursing supervisor at Greystone Park Psychiatric Hospital contends she was a victim of long-term race and gender …
Read More..>>‘The Poisoner’s Handbook’: CSI’s Jazz Age Roots
The poisoner, like all who commit murder most foul, acts with malice aforethought. What sets the poisoner apart is not the amount of malice but the amount, and the quality, of forethought: Poisoning requires planning, patience and, if the victim is a …
Read More..>>Women charged in Green Bay ATM scam
Police say 22-year-old Mandisa Randolph and 23-year-old Brittaney Hill would watch the men enter their ATM pin number and later steal their bank cards. Investigators say Randolph and Hill would ditch the men, then use their cards. Both face six …
Read More..>>DHS trims staff ‘¦ waistlines
DANVILLE ‘” Almost three dozen Danville High School teachers are losers. Or at least they hope to be. Thirty-two teachers have publicly stepped up to the scales in a school-wide weight-loss contest ‘” all with the aim of becoming svelte shadows of …
Read More..>>A Conversation With Dr. Peter J. Pronovost
A few years later, when I was a physician and after I’d done an additional Ph.D. on hospital safety, I met Sorrel King, whose 18-month-old daughter, Josie, had died at Hopkins from infection and dehydration after a catheter insertion. The mother …
Read More..>>On the Job: Bob Arnold, Jose Barros, RNs ‘” Phoebe Sumter Medical …
Bob Arnold and Jose Barros, find themselves outnumbered every day when they come to work at Phoebe Sumter Medical Center (PSMC) in Americus. Arnold and Barros are among seven male registered nurses (RN) at PSMC. Arnold has been working at the …
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