| Family's feud culminates in exhumation
The body of Joseph Tomei, who died 20 months ago in Lawrence County, will be exhumed today as a bitter family dispute comes to a head. Mr. Tomei's sons, suspicious about the cause of death, obtained two court orders to remove his body from a mausoleum. They have hired Dr. Cyril H. Wecht to perform the belated autopsy this afternoon at Carlow University. Their stepmother, Edith Tomei, retained a lawyer and argued against the autopsy for almost a year, saying it was unnecessary. She relented last summer, but plans to have her own expert pathologist monitoring Dr. Wecht's work. Joseph Tomei was 59 when he died on June 13, 2006, in his home in Shenango. He had undergone quadruple heart bypass surgery two years earlier, so the Lawrence County coroner concluded that a heart ailment caused his death.
Democrats Are Hocking Their Agenda As If They Were at a Fire Sale
At the Family Research Council's Values Voters summit, the values most cherished did not sit well with most Americans. Polls show that a consistent and substantial majority in the US are pro-choice, supports stem cell research and opposes amending the constitution to ban gay marriage. All these issues figure low on the list of national priorities and high on the agenda of the FRC. None the less, all the leading Republican contenders showed up. The more out of touch with mainstream America they sounded, the greater the applause. "Sometimes we talk about why we're importing so many people in our workforce," said Mike Huckabee. "It might be, for the last 35 years, we have aborted more than a million people who would have been in our workforce had we not had the holocaust of liberalised abortion." Huckabee was rewarded with a strong second-place showing in the summit's straw poll.
Bob Jane's wife will stand trial
THE tyre magnate Bob Jane was 58 when he arranged for a teenage beauty queen he fancied to hitch a ride in a Lear jet with the Beatle George Harrison to meet him at the Adelaide Formula One Grand Prix in the mid-1980s. It was life in the fast lane for an 18-year-old from Bathurst but, after 20 years of marriage and three children, the souring of relations between the couple was yesterday played out in court. Laree Madonna Jane, 40, was committed to stand trial on four charges of assaulting her husband, including with a 30-centimetre carving knife, during an argument at her South Yarra apartment in December 2006. In a statement to police tendered to the Melbourne Magistrates Court, Bob Jane said the incident occurred when the couple had been separated for a month and he was invited to visit their eldest daughter Courtney, 18, who was recovering from surgery.
New vaccinations give scientists hope of conquering flu pandemic
A vaccine that could help to control a flu pandemic has shown encouraging results in its first human trials. The vaccine, made by Acambis, based in Cambridge, should protect against all strains of influenza A, the type responsible for pandemics. Unlike existing vaccines it does not have to be reformulated each year to match the prevalent strains of flu, so it could be stockpiled and used as soon as a pandemic strain emerges. Nor does it need to be grown on fertilised chicken eggs, as the existing vaccines do, but can be produced by cell culture. The results, announced yesterday by Acambis, show that in human volunteers the Acam-Flu-A vaccine was safe and produced an immune response against its target, a small protein (peptide) called M2e that is found on the surface of all A-strains of the flu virus.
Eli Lilly considers $1 billion fine to settle U.S. case
Eli Lilly and U.S. prosecutors are discussing a settlement of a civil and criminal investigation into the company's marketing of the antipsychotic drug Zyprexa that could result in Lilly's paying more than $1 billion to federal and state governments. If a deal is reached, the fine would be the largest ever paid by a drug company for breaking the U.S. laws that govern how drug makers can promote their medicines. Several people involved in the investigation confirmed the settlement discussions. They insisted on anonymity because they have not been authorized to talk about the negotiations. Zyprexa has serious side effects and is approved only to treat people with schizophrenia and severe bipolar disorder. But documents from Lilly show that between 2000 and 2003, Lilly encouraged doctors to prescribe Zyprexa to people with age-related dementia, as well as people with mild bipolar disorder who had previously been diagnosed only as depressed.
LEAH GARCHIK
Christine Pelosi, 41, and Peter Kaufman, 47, got married on Saturday, followed by a dinner-dance reception at Alexandra's, atop the St. Francis. The vows were administered by Rep. Anna Eshoo. The bride's father, venture capitalist and real estate developer Paul Pelosi, and the groom's father, filmmaker Phil Kaufman, made speeches. The mother of the bride, a woman whose job description includes making speeches, did not. Spies tell me there was a big jazz orchestra, and grandkids cavorted merrily all over the place. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, Mayor Gavin Newsom and former Mayor Willie Brown were all there, too, and in fine form if perhaps not cavorting quite as merrily. The bride, a Democratic superdelegate, is a mighty popular woman nowadays. There was a big dinner in Sausalito on Friday night, catered by McCall's, for the Tour of California, which started on Monday.
Radical Support Ranked 29th Most Progressive Managed Service Provider In MSPmentors 2008 Global Survey
MSPmentor has released the results of their annual global survey of managed service providers, ranking Radical Support of Roswell, Georgia the 29th most progressive managed service provider in the world overall, and 22nd in total revenue. The 2008 MSPmentor 100 results were compiled based on surveys conducted in October-December 2007 of 512 managed service providers from around the globe. .
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