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Claims of Child Abuse Remembered Divide Town and Lead to Charges Against 6

BATES CITY, Mo. On a dead-end dirt road, through frosted crops and bales of hay in this sleepy town about a half-hour east of Kansas City, state investigators spent much of last week excavating the yard around a farmhouse, looking for decades-old ...

From SUSAN SAULNY, The New York Times,  17 Nov 2009

Thieves in Milwaukee Show a Patriotic Side, Declining to Rob Army Reservist

Kyle Windorski, a 21-year-old college student in the Army Reserve, was walking home Tuesday morning on the east side of Milwaukee when four men with stocking caps over their faces forced him into an alley at gunpoint and demanded cash. In an account ...

From SUSAN SAULNY, The New York Times,  11 Nov 2009

25 Chicago Students Arrested for a Middle-School Food Fight

CHICAGO The food fight here started the way such bouts do in school lunchrooms most anywhere: an apple was tossed, a cookie turned into a torpedo, and an orange plunked someone in the head. Within minutes, dozens of middle-school students had joined in ...

From SUSAN SAULNY, The New York Times,  10 Nov 2009

Overweight Americans Push Back on Health Debate

Marilyn Wann is an author and weight diversity speaker in Northern California who has a message for anyone making judgments about her health based on her large physique. “The only thing anyone can accurately diagnose by looking at a fat person is their ...

From SUSAN SAULNY, The New York Times,  7 Nov 2009

Related Topics: U.S. Congress,  Robert Wood Johnson,  Brown University

Prayers and Criticism in Wake of Detroit Imam’s Killing by F.B.I.

DETROIT Friday prayers were intoned on schedule at the red brick two-story house on the west side that is a makeshift mosque for followers of Masjid Al-Haqq. A home in Detroit was one of several locations raided by the F.B.I. on Wednesday. The F.B.I. ...

From SUSAN SAULNY, The New York Times,  30 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Federal Bureau of Investigation

Trial to Begin on Plant’s Illegal Workers

The former chief executive of an Iowa slaughterhouse that was at the center of one of nation’s largest immigration raids is scheduled to stand trial in federal court beginning Tuesday on a host of charges including money laundering and bank fraud. The ...

From SUSAN SAULNY, The New York Times,  12 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Sholom Rubashkin,  Agriprocessors Inc

Limited H1N1 vaccine means most people must wait

And the nasal spray, FluMist, is not recommended for infants, the elderly or pregnant women. CHICAGO — In Alabama, Minnesota and Ohio, health care and emergency medical service workers have been given priority for H1N1 flu immunization. In Illinois, ...

From SUSAN SAULNY, TwinCities.com,  12 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Where to Get a Flu Shot Is Big Worry of Season

CHICAGO In Alabama, Minnesota and Ohio, health care and emergency medical service workers have been given priority for swine flu immunization. Here in Illinois, and in parts of California and Indiana, young children and their families are first in line. ...

From SUSAN SAULNY, The New York Times,  11 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Department of Health,  Ted Strickland,  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,  U.S. Democratic Party

2 From Cabinet to Meet on Chicago Youth Violence

CHICAGO In the wake of renewed concerns about deadly violence among children here, Attorney General Eric Holder and Education Secretary Arne Duncan, the former head of the local public schools, are meeting privately Wednesday morning with Mayor Richard ...

From SUSAN SAULNY, The New York Times,  7 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Arne Duncan,  Eric Holder,  Richard M. Daley,  Barack Obama,  Derrion Albert

School Violence Plan Focuses on Potential Victims

CHICAGO The new chief officer of the public schools here, Ron Huberman, a former police officer and transit executive with a passion for data analysis, has a plan to stop the killings of the city’s public school students. And it does not have to do ...

From SUSAN SAULNY, The New York Times,  6 Oct 2009

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