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  • Toddler who survived Saudi car crash found moving in body bag

    A toddler, who survived a car crash horror, was taken to a morgue in a body bag before doctors realised that he was actually breathing. Eisa Hayat was the only survivor of the car accident that took the lives of five members of the then one-year-old's British family on a pilgrimage to Mecca, the Daily Star reported. Doctors in Saudi Arabia saw the toddler moving in the bag just before they ...

  • Missouri session wraps up a post-mortem

    Republicans in the General Assembly passed legislation high on their priority list, but those bills probably wont make it out of Gov. Jay Nixons office without multiple vetoes. That, in a nutshell, seems to be the consensus on the 2013 session, which wrapped at 6 p.m. Friday. The GOP-dominated Legislature passed nullification bills on federal gun control laws, anti-union measures and a massive ...

  • Employers find work-around on health reform penalties

    Employers are beginning to figure out that they can skirt some penalties in the health care reform law yet still save money by omitting some key benefits, such as hospital coverage or prenatal care, The Wall Street Journal reports. Even without such apparently vital benefits, federal official concede that those plans would appear to qualify as acceptable minimum coverage, avoiding a penalty of ...

  • Covered California to release list of health plans rates

    Covered California, the new state health benefit exchange, will release a tentative list of health plans and rates for the program at a board meeting in Sacramento Thursday. Covered California, the new state health benefit exchange, will release a tentative list of health plans and rates for the program at a board meeting in Sacramento Thursday. The meeting will be held from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. in ...

  • Medicinal marijuana passes state Senate awaits Quinns signature

    Medical marijuana buds, or flowers as they are also known, are displayed for an arranged photograph. Should Illinois pass a medicinal-marijuana law, it will be the second-most-populous state to allow the drug's use. The Illinois state Senate has approved a bill that would allow medicinal use of marijuana, pending Governor Pat Quinn's signature. According to a report by the Chicago ...


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Holes

Holes

Holes is definitely not your typical Disney family movie. Set in a work camp for convicted juveniles in the middle of a dry lakebed in the desolation of deep West Texas, it is visually striking, with the harsh images on screen matched by a surprisingly genuine depiction of troubled youth. Granted, in the end all the juvenile delinquents turn out to be generally good kids at heart, but the ... ...

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  • May Institute CEO lived in Ga. billed state for $140K in personal expenses audit

    Walter Christian, CEO of the autism-focused May Institute, allegedly ran up inappropriate personal expenses, in addition to his six-figure compensation. In addition to six-figure pay, May Institute chief executive Walter Christian billed the state for personal expenses adding up to $140,000 over two years, according to a state audit expected today. Based in Randolph, Mass., the May Institute ...

  • Missouri lawmakers to study Medicare other issues before 2014 session

    In the last few years, the Kansas City-based video production firm T2 Studios and its so-called Experience Lab have gained a growing reputation for creating what are called immersion experiences. In a world of way-too-much stuff passing before our eyes, what all these flashy sights are about is an elevated form of ...

  • Belleville Memorial battling UnitedHealthcare

    Mark Turner Belleville Memorial Hospital and UnitedHealthcare are locked in a contract dispute over hospital and physician reimbursement rates. If the two parties cannot soon come to an agreement, Memorial and its physicians group will no longer be in the network of the nation's largest insurer, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports. Memorial recently sent its patients a form letter, signed by ...

  • ViVita Technologies wins UC Davis contest with plan for heart valve replacement

    ViVita Technologies has a new approach to heart valve replacement, which nascent company says is less likely to rejected by the immune system. ViVita Technologies won the 13th annual Big Bang! Business Plan Competition at the University of California Davis Graduate School of Management. The ViVita team won both the $10,000 first place prize and also won the $2,000 Peoples Choice award at the ...

  • Coming Up in Lists Baltimore crab houses construction firms

    Coming Up On May 24, well publish our famous List of the top crab houses in Greater Baltimore, ranked by Yelp.com ratings. Well also have our List of top 25 construction and general contracting firms in the Baltimore area, ranked by local contracting revenue and based on our own survey results. Next in May and June For May 31, its our List of the fastest-growing public companies headquartered in ...

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