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A man whose body was found partially submerged in the Schuylkill River early this month has been identified, reports say, as Alan Ruggles, 54, of Reading, PA. The man’s body was found in the river, between the Berks County Fire Training Center and the Thun Trail, in Cumru Township, but authorities had no idea how he had died or who he was. And although the coroner could apparently not determine when he died or how long he was in the…

A Massachusetts firefighter who became ill as the truck in which he rode sped to a fire died, reports say. Other firefighters on the truck that day noticed that Rehoboth Fire Department Firefighter Kenneth Marshall Jr., 33, seemed in distress as the Engine Company 2 drove to a residential fire. The firefighters driving the truck was notified and immediately stopped to render aid to the stricken fireman. The fellow firefighters found him unresponsive and initiated CPR on Firefighter Marshall, a 15-year…

A suspect arrested following an incident in which two Harris County Sheriff’s Office deputies discharged their duty weapons at 9903 South Dairy Ashford about 8 p.m. on Tuesday (Jan. 19) has been changed with aggravated assault of a public servant in the 262nd State District Court. The suspect, Don Jamar Boston, 27, suffered two gunshot wounds and was transported to Ben Taub General Hospital in stable condition. Two females, 26 and 27 years of age, also suffered gunshot wounds and…

New Jersey investigators are attempting to determine why a New Jersey youth and two friends died when they drove a car at high speed into an elementary school building. Those killed in the crash were Matthew Budesa, the driver, 20, of Pine Beach, NJ; Kimberly Van Gorden, 20, of Beachwood, NJ; and Matthew Witzgall, 21, of Toms River, NJ, one was the son of a longtime borough councilman. The crash occurred early this month when somewhere between 4 and 4:30…

A study in the Canadian Medical Association Journal has recently linked cardiac imaging and other procedures following heart attack to increased cancer risks, reports say. After-surgery and post-heart attack procedures like angiography and nuclear scans are often used, which studies now say can increase the risk of cancer, reports say. The study reviewed data on 82,861 heart attack patients in a nearly ten-year period and found that 77 percent experienced had at least one cardiac procedure within one year of…