Defense opens in La. nursing home trial
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A survey taken the weekend before Hurricane Katrina struck showed that more than half of the homes questioned had decided against evacuating. But a jury hearing the case against the owners of a home where 35 patients died in Katrina's floods may never see the document.
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The case against a doctor and two nurses accused of murdering four elderly patients after Hurricane Katrina will go forward despite a coroner's ruling that it is unclear how they died, the New Orleans District Attorney's office said on Thursday.
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By La Crosse Tribune, Wis.  May 31--SANTA ANA, Calif. -- The trial for a former Vernon County woman accused of killing her 3-year-old daughter while in California in 1969 is set to begin today.
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A man accused of murdering five women in Suffolk begins giving evidence at his trial.
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Jury selection will begin Monday in federal court in the first trial of 4,500 lawsuits filed nationwide that challenge Prempro, a hormone-replacement therapy that some women say causes breast cancer.
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France begins a trial over the 1999 Erika oil spill - one of the country's worst environmental disasters.
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A New Orleans doctor accused of killing patients in the chaos following Hurricane Katrina, defended herself and two nurses who remained in the flooded hospital with no electricity to care for the ill.
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The trial of a man who is accused of murdering five women in Suffolk during a 10-day period in 2006 is due to begin.
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By ERIC TUCKER  PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Jury selection began Tuesday for the highly anticipated trial of one of the owners of the nightclub where a fire killed 100 people three years ago.  Michael Derderian is the first person to stand trial for the Feb.
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Two nursing home owners who were arrested after 34 of their patients died in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina are suing the government, saying federal, state and local officials failed to keep residents safe and evacuate vulnerable citizens as the storm approached.
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VAN NUYS, Calif.  - Actor Robert Blake's lawyers  on Tuesday opened his defense against charges that he murdered  his wife by trying to portray a chief witness against him as a  delusional drug addict.
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The owners of a New Orleans nursing home deny manslaughter over the deaths of 35 patients in Hurricane Katrina.
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A lawyer for a former chief prosecutor accused of helping a convicted rapist get a new trial in exchange for campaign contributions tried to cast him as an ethical man as his trial began Wednesday.
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The Sept. 26 slaying of Thomas Mullen and the arrest of his roommate John Tamkun, a retired cabinetmaker who suffers from dementia, have cast a spotlight on a growing problem at nursing homes across the country: violence among residents.
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For more than a year, US civil rights investigators have been probing into the care delivered at Metro&#39;s Bordeaux Hospital, a nursing home where federal consultants have discovered a history
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A murder trial highlights evolving legal debate over whether antidepressants limit personal accountability.
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FORT HOOD, Texas  - U.S. Army Spc. Charles Graner,  the accused ringleader of the Iraq prisoner abuse scandal that  outraged the world, went on trial on Friday ready to offer a  defense he was just following orders.