Parents who prayed as their 11-year-old daughter died of untreated diabetes will be charged with second-degree reckless homicide
, the Marathon County district attorney said Monday. "It is very surprising, shocking that she wasn't allowed medical intervention," District Attorney Jill Falstad said. She announced the charges Monday during a news conference at the Everest Metro Police Department with Police Chief Dan Vergin. Vergin has said Dale and Leilani Neumann told investigators their daughter Madeline last saw a doctor when she was 3 to get some shots. The couple face up to 25 years in prison if convicted. Fox NewsThe growing number of cities, towns and states banning smoking in bars might be encouraging some patrons to drink and drive, according to a study in the June edition of the Journal of Public Economics
. The study found that communities that passed smoking bans from 2000 to 2005 had, on average, a 13% increase in drunken-driving fatalities the following year. "You have individuals making the choice to find the bar where they can still combine smoking and drinking, and it ends up increasing the risk of causing a drunk-driving accident," said Scott Adams, an economics professor at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee who wrote the report with economist Chad Cotti. The study was based on data from the Fatality Analysis Reporting System of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) and included 85% of the USA's counties. USA Today NewspaperFive years ago, I became a seriously disturbed woman.
Through a single magazine article about AIDS in Africa, my attention was captured and a sense of shock, horror, and doom awoke within me. How could there be more than 30 million people infected with a lethal virus, and I not know even one of them? How was it possible that there were 12 million children orphaned by this horrible virus, and I couldn't name a single one? Those questions sent me on a search to discover God's heart for people infected and affected by HIV/AIDS; within a very short time, I became seriously and permanently disturbed.Once I became disturbed, I became passionate about ending AIDS in Rick's and my lifetime. We are not content to merely manage AIDS, any more than we're content to manage cancer, TB, or malaria. Our goal is to wipe it out.
Christianity TodayHigh percentage of kids with immigrant parents could transform California electorate, report says
-- Forty-nine percent of California's children between 12 and 17 have at least one immigrant parent, a phenomenon that could dramatically change the composition of the state's electorate within several years, according to a report released Tuesday. Susan Ferriss in the Sacramento Bee Teresa Watanabe in the Los Angeles Times Mary Anne Ostrom in the Contra Costa Times -- 4/29/08
