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Trial opens for 'female James Bond' in model's death
He is not in court. He is not even charged with a crime. But looming over the murder trial of a woman accused of strangling an aspiring model and actress in her Santa Monica apartment five years ago is a doctor who once dated the victim. A...
Tags: Prosecution, Justice System, Trials, Lawyers, Chemical Industry
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Cold case heats up: Man charged with homicide in Shoemakersville woman's 2002 death
One week after Hope Babel's body was found in the burned-out ruins of her Shoemakersville apartment, Ryan J. Stufflet told an acquaintance, "If something happens with this, I'm going to kill myself," police said Tuesday. Nearly 11 years later, state...Tags: Prosecution, Nursing Homes, Justice System, Nursing, Allentown
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Don't mandate labeling for gene-altered foods
Should the government require companies to label food that contains genetically modified organisms? Last November, California voters rejected a ballot initiative that would require such labeling, but bills that would do so were recently introduced in...Tags: Health Organizations, U.S. Senate, Technology, Science and Technology, Health
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Gacy review helps solve 41-year-old missing person's case
When 16-year-old Steven Soden ran away from a New Jersey campground in 1972 and was never seen again, his family feared he may have become a victim of John Wayne Gacy. Steven's father lived in Chicago and relatives thought he may have headed here and...
Tags: Criminals, Chemical Industry
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Angelina Jolie and the fate of breast cancer genes
Angelina Jolie’s Op-Ed in the New York Times about getting a double mastectomy after learning that she was at risk of getting breast cancer struck a chord with fellow celebs as well as with Los Angeles Times staffers Anna Gorman and Paul Whitefield,...
Tags: Angelina Jolie, Medical Specialization, Breast Cancer, Science and Technology, Women's Health
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Do humans need mystery 'junk' DNA? This carnivorous plant doesn't
How’s this for spring cleaning? Scientists have discovered that a carnivorous plant deletes so much of its own junk DNA that it has hardly any left. The finding, published online in Nature, hints that such noncoding DNA may not be as important as...
Tags: Biology, Science and Technology, Science, Chemical Industry, Plant Openings
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Altamonte Springs cook sent to death row hopes new DNA clears him
SANFORD — DNA helped send Clemente Javier "Shorty" Aguirre to death row in 2006 for murdering an Altamonte Springs neighbor and her wheelchair-bound mother. Now a team of attorneys hopes to use a new round of DNA tests to set him free. Aguirre,...
Tags: Lake Mary, Justice System, Lawyers, Criminals, Chemical Industry
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Amgen aims to restock its medicine cabinet
Amgen Inc. is a biotechnology company that develops medicines used in the treatment of cancer, kidney disease, arthritis, bone disease and other serious illnesses. The Thousand Oaks company's top-selling products include arthritis medication Enbrel,...
Tags: Technology, Chemotherapy, Science and Technology, Anemia, Pharmaceuticals
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Biotech crops and Europe: A losing battle against progress
Last year, too dry. This year, too wet. Spring planting is never perfect in America's agricultural heartland. The past few growing seasons have been especially challenging. Yet crop yields have held up. One reason: bioengineered seeds, a big improvement...
Tags: Genetic Engineering, Biotechnology, European Union, Science and Technology, Chemical Industry
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Felon seeks dismissal of new sex charges from 1970s Boca Raton cold case
As a younger man, John Arthur MacLean told secrets of being a successful South Florida home burglar in a book declaring himself a "Superthief." Now 66 and locked in Palm Beach County Jail, the Deerfield Beach felon needs his attorney's help to get out...
Tags: Sex Crimes, Palm Beach County, Fort Lauderdale, Trials, Theft
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Ohio officials: Ariel Castro fathered baby born in captivity
Ariel Castro, accused of kidnapping and raping three women held captive for years in his Cleveland house, is the father of the child born in captivity to one of the victims, officials said Friday morning. State officials received a DNA sample from...Tags: Prosecution, Crime Victims, Punishment, Justice System, Kidnapping
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T.R.E.L. Zawko Murder: Suspect Lived Next Door, Tried to Cut His Own Neck
Channel 2 NewsCharging documents against 22-year-old Victor Enrique Garcia say he told Anchorage police that he described himself in a “dark place” the morning of Jan. 18, when he allegedly killed 21-year-old T.R.E.L. Zawko. On a rainy Saturday afternoon...Tags: Prosecution, Justice System, Witnesses, Chemical Industry, Murder
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