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Convicted child molester could go free because judge accepted a doughnut

Convicted child molester James Degroff is getting a second chance to proving he never molested a 6-year-old girl four years ago. What’s so rare about this case is not that it's going back to court, but the reason why. The answer lies in the back halls of the Thurston County Courthouse.

In 2003, the first trial judge unwittingly unraveled the case by accepting an ordinary doughnut. The trouble is, the judge took the doughnut from a juror deciding the case.

After Degroff's conviction, his attorney accused Judge Richard Strophy of making biased comments about Degroff during sidebar conversations. The claims could not be substantiated. But because Judge Strophy took the doughnut and later had a brief conversation with a different juror about a potluck dinner, an appeals court threw out the first verdict and ordered a new trial.

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Killer gets electric-chair death wish

A man convicted of raping and murdering a 23-year-old woman was executed Thursday, becoming the first person in the United States to die in the electric chair in more than two years.

Brandon Hedrick, 27, was pronounced dead at the Greensville Correctional Center at 9:12 p.m. after the Supreme Court rejected his appeals and Gov. Timothy M. Kaine denied his request for clemency.

"I pray for the people that are unsaved," Hedrick said in his final words. "I'm ready to go and be free."

Virginia inmates have the option of dying by injection or electrocution. Hedrick chose the electric chair because he was apparently unnerved by the prospect of lethal injection.

Earl Bramblett, convicted of murdering a Roanoke couple and their two young daughters, was the last U.S. inmate to die in the electric chair. He was executed in Virginia in 2003.

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Families reeling after hospital bloodbath

A knife-wielding former mental patient went on a 30-minute rampage of terror at Kalafong Hospital in Pretoria on Wednesday. He left three pensioners critically injured - one of them paralysed for life.

The terrifying bloodbath - in what are normally peaceful surroundings - shocked hospital staff, patients and visitors alike.

The man had been released from the hospital's psychiatric ward only last week.

His attack left Pretoria Gardens residents Willie Snyman, 69, his wife Martie, 68, and her sister Rita Meyer, 66, fighting for their lives.

They had come to visit Meyer's husband, Nico, who had just been diagnosed with cancer.

Hospital sources confirmed that the attacker, who comes from Atteridgeville, had been admitted to the psychiatric section two weeks ago after he had attacked a family of four in that township.

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Cop works nights as hooker

A policewoman has been censured for some unauthorized "undercover" work -- a stint moonlighting as a prostitute -- but is being allowed to keep her day job after giving up the night duties.

While prostitution is legal in New Zealand and police are allowed to take approved second jobs, a top officer said sex work and police work don't mix.

The policewoman had worked for a limited time as a prostitute in the northern city of Auckland before her clandestine activity was uncovered, police said. Her name and rank have not been made public.

Police media communications manager Jon Neilson said he understood the officer had taken up "secondary employment due to financial difficulties," but had not sought police approval to work in the sex industry.

She has been counseled over the matter, which "under police procedures .... amounts to a censure," said Deputy Police Commissioner Lyn Provost.

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Caretaker charged after maggots found in woman's sores

Officers say they arrested a woman after her friend who she was caring for suffered bed sores so severe, maggots got into them. The victim suffered from Alzheimers and died at the hospital The medical examiner has not yet determined her cause of death. But the day before her passing, norfolk police arrested her 80 year old friend for -- they say -- not giving the victim proper care. Off camera, Gladys Everett says she believes in Jesus Christ and right now feels as he once did - crucified - by police and the court after an officer arrested her for allegedly abusing her friend. A head nurse at DePaul Hospital notified officers about the bed sores of Everett's live-in companion, Annie Spencer, who died on July 14th. A police report says Spencer, who was 79, had bed sores so severe, the nurse could see her spinal chord and that she also had maggotts in them. Furthermore, the report continued, because of the neglected sores, Spencer was suffering from septicemia-- an infection of the blood stream that can be fatal. "Certainly it's, it's an indication that the person wasn't being taken care of" said Jan Callaghan, Programs Manager at Norfolk's Department of Human Services.

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Family sues hotel after baby eats a used condom found in bed

A COUPLE from Scotland is suing a Las Vegas hotel-casino, claiming their five-year-old daughter found a used condom in their bed and put it in her mouth, according to court documents.

Jacqueline and Gerald Kilcoyne are suing Caesar's Palace for negligence and emotional distress after the July 2004 incident involving their daughter Caitlin.
The child "found a used condom in the made-up bed in her room, room 6430, and placed the condom in her mouth," reads the suit, filed July 13 in district court.

Fearing Caitlin may have contracted a communicable disease such as HIV, the family rushed the girl to the hospital for extensive medical tests.

The plaintiffs have suffered "shock, horror, fear, anxiety and distress" and are suing the hotel for negligence, seeking at least $US10,000 ($13,415) in damages, plus medical and legal expenses, the lawsuit said.

Harrah's Entertainment, which owns Caesar's Palace, did not immediately return calls when contacted.

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Indian-born scientist developing coated DVD's that can make hard disks obsolete

An Indian born scientist in the US is working on developing DVD's which can be coated with a light -sensitive protein and can store up to 50 terabytes (about 50,000 gigabytes) of data. Professor V Renugopalakrishnan of the Harvard Medical School in Boston has claimed to have developed a layer of protein made from tiny genetically altered microbe proteins which could store enough data to make computer hard disks almost obsolete. "What this will do eventually is eliminate the need for hard drive memory completely," ABC quoted Prof. Renugopalakrishnan, a BSc in Chemistry from Madras University and PhD in biophysics from Columbia/State University of New York, Buffalo, New York as saying. The light-activated protein is found in the membrane of a salt marsh microbe Halobacterium salinarum and is also known as bacteriorhodopsin (bR). It captures and stores sunlight to convert it to chemical energy. When light shines on bR, it is converted to a series of intermediate molecules each with a unique shape and colour before returning to its 'ground state'. Since the intermediates generally only last for hours or days, Prof Renugopalakrishnan and his colleagues modified the DNA that produces bR protein to produce an intermediate that lasts for more than several years. They also engineered the bR protein to make its intermediates more stable at the high temperatures generated by storing terabytes of data.

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Low position on social status ladder linked to faster ageing

Scientists have uncovered evidence of a new class divide: the lower our social standing, the faster we age. The claim follows the surprise discovery of accelerated ageing among working class volunteers, leaving them biologically older than those higher up the social ladder. Genetic tests showed that being working class could add the equivalent of seven years to a person's age. And moving down in the world by marrying someone from a lower social class also added years to a woman's biological age, scientists report today in the journal Aging Cell. The researchers, lead by Professor Tim Spector at St Thomas' Hospital in London, ruled out differences in income, smoking, bodyweight and exercise, and believe instead that being at the bottom of the social pile breeds insecurity and low self-esteem. This triggers high levels of stress which may increase damage on the cellular level and speed up the natural ageing process, the scientists say. The finding may explain the large difference in death rates between different social classes, not all of which can be explained by poorer lifestyles. "Not only is social class affecting health and age-related diseases, it seems to have an impact on ageing itself", Prof Spector said. The study is the latest to emerge from Prof Spector's Twin Research and Genetic Epidemiology Unit which aims to tease apart the effects that genetics and environment have on people.

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Talking Urinal

If you're squeamish about the guy next to you in the men's room talking to you, wait until the urinal starts yapping. The Wizmark Urinal Communicator is a disposable drain cover, fitted with electronics, that detects someone approaching and then plays a pre-recorded audio announcement. The device also has a display for text or images. The inventor, Dr. Richard Deutsch, envisions his invention being used to play everything from PSAs to, appropriately enough, beer commercials.

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