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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…

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…

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…

According to recently published reports, U.S. coal-fired power plant pollution is linked to the deaths of as many as 34,000 people each year. The study, released by the Civil Society Institute in Washington and prepared by Synapse Energy Economics Inc., shows that the health cost of burning coal are more deadly than previously thought, reports say. Deaths ranging from 8,000 to 34,000 have been reported, with a “cost on society” of $64-billion to $272 billion, or a cost four times…