CJD claims man&#39;s wife and sister
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A man has lost his wife and sister to a form of Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD) which strikes one in a million people. Barry Harper&#39;s wife Phyllis, from Sandhurst, Gloucestershire, died last month after battling
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The sun had just set on a cool April day, when truck driver Robert F. Spencer phoned his sister in Michigan. He was in Indiana, and, as authorities would later discover, had been driving his rig for hours longer than federal law allows.
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One of Australia&#39;s biggest hospitals was on high alert today over fears that a form of CJD suffered by one of its patients may have been transmitted to others via surgical instruments.
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A civil rights leader who worked closely with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. has been charged with incest.
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"These are people who he lived with, may have worked with, and certainly associated with"  An Indian doctor arrested the same day his brother allegedly drove a Jeep into Glasgow's main airport was charged with a terrorism offense in Britain on Saturday. A distant cousin in Australia was also charged in the failed attacks in London and Glasgow.Sabeel Ahmed, of Liverpool, became the third person to face charges in the alleged plot. He was charged with withholding information that could prevent an act of terrorism, police said in a statement. Ahmed appears in court in London on Monday. Read more
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CALGARY (CP) - A Calgary man suing the Jehovah&#39;s Witnesses, claiming they contributed to his daughter&#39;s death by encouraging her to avoid life-saving blood transfusions, said Friday his lawsuit is for her and for his family.
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Jeremy Jaynes of Raleigh, NC and his sister Jessica DeGroot, have been convicted of illegal spam activities under a Virginia law. Jaynes was sentenced to nine years in prison, while his sister received a fine of $7500.
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(CBS) Hours after conceding the election, Sen. John Edwards&#39; wife, Elizabeth, was diagnosed with a common form of breast cancer - invasive ductal carcinoma, reports The Early Show medical correspondent Dr.
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Thousands of people have received letters warning they may be at increased risk of developing the incurable brain disease variant CJD as a result of medical treatment, it was announced yesterday.
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(08/30/04)-- A house fire in Oakland County&#39;s Waterford Township has claimed the lives of a township police officer and his wife and child.
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In a letter to Pinky Anand, who is representing his daughter Sreeja, Telugu superstar Chiranjeevi has stated that he has been deeply hurt by the allegations made against him and his family. The superstar claimed that he had given his blessings to Sreeja, who eloped with her boyfriend Srish Bhardwaj last week.
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ROGERS, Ark. - A woman was charged with second-degree domestic battery after biting off part of her new son-in-law's ear.  Police say Julie Lynn Jenkins, 42, bit Leland Shawn Charles Knighting's ear Wednesday night.
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SOUTH BEND, Ind. - A man says he remains in shock over allegations that both his 41-year-old identical twin daughters stole thousands of dollars from separate employers during roughly the same two-year span.
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Lee Kandu never wanted to be a crusader for same-sex marriage. The Castle Rock, Wash., woman just wanted to file for bankruptcy protection so she could keep her house after her spouse &#151; a woman she married in Canada &#151; was diagnosed with terminal cancer.
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NICE, France  - A brother and sister were sentenced by a French court to 25 years jail each on Friday after being convicted over the killing of her estranged husband, Lord Shaftesbury, to stop a love rival inheriting a fortune.
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Twins who were separated at birth and later married each other without realising they were brother and sister have had their marriage annulled by the high court's family division, it emerged yesterday
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Yasser Arafat&#39;s half brother insisted Saturday the Palestinian people were entitled to know the cause of their leader&#39;s death, but Arafat&#39;s widow threatened a legal fight over the medical file in an ugly family tug-of-war.