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Coroner blames hospital for death
THE NSW Labor Government has caved in to demands for a wide-ranging inquiry into the state's health system after a coroner found that teenager Vanessa Anderson died as a direct result of medication she was mistakenly given at Sydney's Royal North Shore Hospital. In a damning report, NSW Deputy Coroner Carl Milovanovich found that RNSH's care of Anderson - who was 16 when she passed away in November 2005 - could not have been more inept, even if doctors had set out to end her life.
She had been admitted to RNSH after being struck on the head by a golf ball while playing in a tournament. She died two days later after what Mr Milovanovich describes as errors of judgment by doctors and nurses, flawed communication, inadequately maintained records and poor management of staff. More>>
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UPDATE:UN Draft Resolution Aims For Direct Talks With Iran-AFP
MOSCOW (AFP)--A new draft U.N. Security Council resolution on Iran's nuclear program envisions direct talks with Tehran that would include the U.S., Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Tuesday. The five permanent members of the Security Council, plus Germany, agreed earlier in the day in Berlin on the text of the resolution aimed at getting Iran to heed international demands to halt uranium enrichment.
"It's clearly confirmed by the resolution that direct negotiations on resolving all questions related to the Iranian nuclear program - with the participation of all six powers, including the United States - would be initiated if Iran accepts the proposals of the six," Lavrov said.
In his remarks to Russian journalists after the Berlin meeting, and reported by the Ria-Novosti news agency, the foreign minister added that the proposed text doesn't foresee fresh sanctions against Iran. More>>
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Operation Gumshoe windfall distributed to local agencies
CANTON Canton Police Chief Dean McKimm wants to use his share of FBI money to buy equipment giving patrol officers direct access to crime databases from their cruisers. Perry Township Police Chief Tim Escola wants to use the thousands he received for drug-enforcement equipment and training for detectives. The chiefs received the money in the form of large checks from C. Frank Figliuzzi, special agent-in-charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation�s Cleveland division. The disbursement occurred Wednesday morning in downtown Canton. The checks, which total more than $1.1 million in drug forfeiture money from Operation Gumshoe, were presented to police departments in Canton, Alliance, Jackson Township, Perry Township and Massillon and the Stark County Sheriff�s Department. Operation Gumshoe was a multiagency investigation into cocaine trade from Los Angeles, Calif., to Canton. More>>
