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Michael Jackson
Doctor Charged in Death
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Involuntary Manslaughter
Dr. Conrad Murray, a cardiologist who was with Jackson when he
died on June 25th, has been charged with involuntary manslaughter
in the singer`s death. According to the indictment, Murray
acted `unlawfully and without malice` when he administered a
powerful sedative to help Jackson go to sleep.
Members of Michael Jackson`s family have were at the
courthouse following the announcement.
According to his attorney, Murray plans to fight
the charges. Jackson hired Murray to be his personal physician
in connection with a series of concerts planned for London.
According to the prosecution, Murray gave Jackson propofol and
two other sedatives.
Propofol is normally given by an IV, as a general anesthesic.
As with any other general anesthetic agent, propofol should
only be administered where appropriately trained staff and
facilities for monitoring are available, as well as proper
airway management, a supply of supplemental oxygen, artificial
ventilation and cardiovascular resuscitation.
Since none of these conditions existed in Jackson`s case,
prosecutors argue that Murray acted `without the caution and
circumspection required.`
Murray apparently obtained the drug legally and its use
is not, in and of itself, a crime. The criminal charges
are based on the argument that Murray`s use of the
drug was reckless and inappropriate.
Prosecutors will have to convince the jury that
Murray`s actions were criminally negligent.
Murray is reportedly not the first or only doctor
to have given propofol to Jackson.
The fact that Murray is a cardiologist, or heart doctor, rather
than an anaesthesiologist, may work against him.
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- Creeks and Rivers - Waters Fall
- Waters have peaked on both the Oostanaula and
Coosa rivers and are falling,
- Gordon County Employees to Have Benefits Cut
- Gordon County employees will soon watch their employee benefits be
temporary reduced. The reductions will be made to help cover
declining revenue. Employees will no longer receive
cost-of-living-allowances, longevity pay, and holiday pay for
the ten county holidays including the $30 Christmas pay. Also,
employees will no longer receive the deferred compensation
retirement match of 5 percent.
- Coosa High Senior is National Merit Finalist
- Luke Weeks, a senior at Coosa High School, is a Finalist in the
2010 National Merit Scholarship Program. Approximately 15,000
Semifinalists were involved in the selection process in the
annual National Merit Scholarship Program. The names on the list
of Finalists were announced recently by officials of National
Merit Scholarship Corporation.
Pictured: Weeks
Luke and approximately 15,000 other scholastically talented high
school seniors selected as Finalists, have an opportunity to
continue in the competition for some 8,200 Merit Scholarship
awards. Scholarship winners will be announced in the spring. To
be considered for a Merit Scholarship award, students must
fulfill several requirements and advance to the Finalist level
of the competition. Approximately half of the Finalists will be
selected as Merit Scholarship winners, earning the Merit Scholar
title.
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- Berry Musicians Picked for State Band/Orchestra
- Six Berry College students were among a group of approximately
105 elite musicians statewide who were selected to perform with t
he Georgia Music Educators Association (GMEA) All-College Band
and Orchestra during the organization’s January meeting in
Savannah. The selected musicians represented many different
colleges and universities across the state, including Emory
University, Georgia State University, Mercer University and
Georgia Southern University. Two students from the local area,
Thomas Ryan of Silver Creek and Marc Johnson of Rome were
featured.
- Global Oil Demand Slips, U.S Dollar Surges
- The euro dropped to an eight-month low and pushed the value of the U.S. dollar even higher causing crude oil prices to drop to a seven-week low. Crude oil closed on the New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX) at $71.19 a barrel.
The national average price of unleaded regular gasoline is $2.65 per gallon and Georgias average price is $2.53 per gallon, both reflecting a two-cent decrease from last week. Floridas average price is $2.69 and Tennessees is $2.54, a decrease of three cents, respectively.
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- Union Blocks Job Move to Georgia
- A Connecticut federal judge blocked jet engine maker
Pratt & Whitney from moving engine overhaul and repair
operations to Georgia and the far east. The Machinists
union had filed suit to block the action.
- Gov Wants to Appoint Elected Officers
- Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue said that he would like to see four
positions in the state appointed instead of elected. Perdue
proposed that state school superintendent, agriculture
commissioner, labor commissioner and insurance commissioner be
appointed by the governor.
- Study Shows More Atlantains Depend on Food Banks
- The country`s largest domestic hunger-relief organization, Feeding
America, conducted a Hunger in America 2010 survey and it estimates
that more than 58,000 Atlanta-area residents a week are depending
on food pantries.
- 2010 Georgia Centennial Farm Deadline April 30
- The Georgia Centennial Farm Program was created to draw
attention to historic farms and to encourage their preservation.
Nominees must be a working farm with a minimum of 10 acres
actively involved in agricultural production or generate at
least $1,000 in annual income. In addition, farms must be
continuously farmed for at least 100 years and owned by members
of the same family for at least 100 years or be listed in the
National Register of Historic Places.
- `Discouraged` Workers Surge
- A big increase in the number of people who have given up
looking for work, so called `discouraged workers,` resulted in
the unemployment rate falling to 9.7%.
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Shorter Hawks - New Football Players
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Each year, football programs anxiously await National Signing Day
to gauge the fruits of their recruiting labor throughout the
season.
Shorter College inked 30 athletes on Wednesday, successfully
addressing several key needs while building excitement for the
2010 season in the process.
`We are very pleased with our class,` said Shorter assistant
coach Paul Pitts. `We feel that we have a lot of young guys that
play hard when they are on the field.
Two of the Hawks` top signees came in the secondary, where
Shorter said farewell to perennial All-MSC corner A.J. Baker and
do-it-all safety Drew Elrod.
Heading up the class of defensive backs are Jonathan Watters and
Darien Lane.
Watters, a rangy 6-foot-4, 200-pounder, prepped at Pepperell
High where he played quarterback on the gridiron and also
starred for the basketball team during his high school career.
His athletic ability and size could bring instant production to
the Hawks` secondary.
Lane, a 5-9, 170-pound defensive back from Dacula High, also
figures to challenge for playing time right away.
Shorter Football Class of 2014
Offensive Line
- Chase Bowles; 6-3, 260; Callaway
- Chaz Bowles; 6-3, 275; Callaway
- Hakeem Cannon; 5-11, 230; East Laurens; (OL/DL)
- Kendall Dials; 5-11, 230; Hillgrove
- Henry Higgs; 6-2, 250; East Laurens; (OL/DL)
- Thad Mathis; 5-10, 260; Darlington School
- Colby Morris; 5-11, 240; East Laurens
- Ben Peterson; 5-11, 250; Hillgrove
- Hudson Riechstiener; 6-0, 230; Etowah
Running Back
- Jared Cooley; 5-7, 185; Carrollton
- T.J. Telfair; 5-9, 195; TRANSFER
- Darryl Hickson; TRANSFER
Tight End
- Cameron Mimbs; 6-3, 215; East Laurens
Defensive Line
- Caleb Heard; 6-3, 210; Thomas County Central
- Nate Newborn; 5-11, 275; Cartersville
- Jamal Aquil; 6-2, 205; Jackson
- Tony Hall, Jr.; TRANSFER
- Daniel Harris; TRANSFER
- Patrick Keller; TRANSFER
Linebacker
- Daniel Miller; 5-9, 210; Cherokee County (Ala.)
- Luke Smith; 6-2, 205; Piedmont (Ala.)
- Jacob Carmean; TRANSFER (University of the Cumberlands)
- Blake Lambert; TRANSFER
Defensive Back
- Chris Hudson; 5-8, 175; East Laurens
- Darien Lane; 5-9, 170; Dacula
- Kelvin McDonald; 6-0, 175; Jefferson (Ore.)
- Jonathan Watters; 6-4, 200; Pepperell
- Brandon Goss; TRANSFER
- Brandon Brown; TRANSFER (Lenoir-Rhyne)
Kicker
- Troy Postell; 6-0, 185; McEachern
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- Thrashers Climb Back Up Standings
- Niclas Bergfors, playing his second game for Atlanta,
scored the game winning goal as Atlanta defeated
Florida 4-2 Saturday night.
- Former Shorter Player Signs with Pro Team
- The dream of playing professionally is one shared by millions of
young athletes around the world from the moment they first
develop a love for their respective sport. For Anthony O`Garro, that dream is becoming a reality.
- UCS Wrestler Looking to State Competition
- The UCS wrestling team has had a great deal of success this
season. They have had great support from the school, the parents,
and the community. The wrestlers also have strong leadership with
Athletic Director Joe Curtiss, Wrestling Coach Wes Rampley and a
hard working senior in Luke Lansdell.
Luke is going into his fourth year of wrestling, and it is amazing to see how far he has
come looking back at his freshman year when he began wrestling
for the first time. `I didn`t know anything about wrestling, but
it was one of the few sports we had at Unity so I joined the team
because I wanted to compete,` says Lansdell. In the process, the
Unity Wrestling Team faced some adversity early on in the
wrestling program. Former Unity Christian School science teacher
Mark Jones was the wrestling Coach for Luke`s first two seasons.
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News - Health
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Video Game - Injuries
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Nintendo’s Wii interactive video games can cause a wee bit more
than soreness and tendinitis.
A healthy 14-year-old girl in the United Kingdom suffered a
fracture in her right foot when she fell off a Wii Fit balance
board, says a letter in the New England Journal of Medicine.
Highly popular Wii interactive games allow players to participate
physically in games and sporting events, and not just with their
fingers or by moving their hands and arms to swing virtual sports
equipment like tennis racquets.
A Wii Fit balance board replaces handheld controls with a
pressure-sensitive board about 2 inches off the ground that lets
the user try to improve balance. The little device, which
resembles a skateboard, allows players to control movements
on-screen via balancing movements, twists, and turns.
It’s been touted as another health-promoting Wii game that forces
people off couches and into action that burns calories.
But sometimes such play can cause problems, Karen Eley of Oxford
Radcliffe Hospitals NHS Trust in Oxford, England, writes in a
letter in the New England Journal of Medicine.
`Other reported Wii-associated injuries have included traumatic
hemothorax (from a fall while playing), dislocations, and head
injuries (from being struck accidentally by a gaming partner).` A
hemothorax is a collection of blood in the space between the
chest wall and the lung.
Eley writes that `Nintendinitis` was described in 1990 in a
patient with pain in a thumb tendon after five hours of playing
a video game. And after the introduction of Wii, Eley says,
clinicians started to see patients with what they called,
Wiiitis.`
A study published in October 2009 suggested that 12% of young
video game players have finger pain, enough to limit gaming
time; and 10% have wrist pain
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- Coming Soon
- 1 Step at a Time Valentine Dance
- 1 Step at a Time Dance Club hosts a special Valentine Dance Thursday, from 6:30 to 8pm at the Senior Adult Recreation Center in Rome.
- Heart and Soul 3
- The Clock Tower Jazz Ensemble and Guests present Heart and Soul 3 (love songs and Motown) Friday, February 12, from 7:30 - 9:30pm at the Rome City Auditorium.
- 1902 Stock Exhange Opera House Presents CUPID
- The 1902 Stock Exchange Opera House in Adairsville presents CUPID February 12 - 13 and on February 20.
- Free Tax Assistance Program at Berry
- Berry College`s Campbell School of Business and the IRS provide free tax preparation for Rome residents Fridays and Saturdays through April 10.
- Annual Wild Game Dinner
- The Men of Metropolitan United Methodist Church in Rome host their annual Wild Game Dinner Saturday, February 13 beginning at 10am.
- Mother/Daughter Valentine Tea
- The Rome Area History Museum hosts a Mother/Daughter Valentine Tea Saturday, February 13 at the museum on Broad Street in downtown Rome.
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