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James Okkerse, 62-year-old is dead, possibly after being attacked by an alligator, after disappearing for a short time while swimming Monday morning at Blue Spring State Park. The Volusia County Medical Examiner’s Office in Florida has ruled his death as being consistent with an alligator attack, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission said. The four-metre alligator had previously been ... Read More »

At least 43 people, most of them pensioners on a hiking trip, have been killed after the bus they were travelling in collided with a truck. Motorists desperately tried to smash windows of the burning bus to free passengers near Bordeaux, south-western France. Read More »

In an effort to keep Manitobans healthy and reduce the number of new cancer cases, the province’s Human Papillomavirus (HPV) Immunization Program will be expanded starting next year to include both males and females. Health Minister Sharon Blady said the province’s vaccine program will be expanded next year to include Grade 6 and Grade 9 boys as part of Manitoba’s ... Read More »

A San Jose seafood restaurant in California is currently in hot water after customers have reportedly been sick due to food poisoning linked to Shigella bacteria. The California health officials is currently doing an investigation of the outbreak as they try to get to the bottom of the real source of the contamination. Individuals being reporting symptoms including fever, abdominal ... Read More »

THE Discipline Committee Panel of the College of Dental Surgeons of BC hearing the Dr. Bobby Rishiraj case has suspended him from practice for three months, effective October 21, and fined him $50,000. The penalty was announced on Thursday after a hearing was held into Rishiraj’s actions that left one of his patients, Hamu Zindoga, with a severe brain injury. Read More »

Antibiotics are great for nipping that nasty infection in the bud. However, new research published this week in the International Journal of Obesity suggests that the bacteria-battling medicines may also influence childhood weight gain. This research, which was published online yesterday in the International Journal of Obesity, is actually the biggest and longest study that looks how antibiotic exposure influences ... Read More »

Following a Mediterranean diet improves the health of the brain, according to new research. The study, conducted by researchers at Columbia University in New York, provides further evidence of the benefits of a Mediterranean diet for people with diabetes. A study of 674 people with an average age of 80 showed that those following a Mediterranean-like diet had larger brains. ... Read More »

Cory Wells, a founding member of the popular 1970s band Three Dog Night and lead singer on such hits as “Never Been to Spain” and “Mama Told Me (Not to Come),” has died at age 74. Cory Wells passed away in Dunkirk, New York on Tuesday, a few weeks after experiencing acute back pain, bandmate Danny Hutton said. Hutton paid ... Read More »

Kate Winslet has always been outspoken about her desire not to be retouched for magazines. Now, she’s putting it into writing. According to E! News, Winslet has made sure her L’Oréal contract states that there will be zero retouching done to her upcoming Lancôme ads. That’s right — no slimming of the face, no removing wrinkles or blemishes, no nothing. Read More »

Lilly Garcia, four, was shot in the head as she travelled with her parents along a New Mexico highway. Tony Torrez has been charged with murder after confessing to the fatal road-rage shooting of a 4-year-old girl. KOAT reports that Tony Torrez, 32, was arrested Wednesday afternoon and charged with murder, as well as various weapons and child abuse violations. ... Read More »

A mother learned an unexpected lesson about stereotypes after she took her young daughter to a skatepark. Jeanean Thomas, of Ontario, Cambridge in Canada, took six-year-old Peyton to the skate park with much hesitation – as it was dominated by a group of young boys smoking and swearing. Read More »