Wednesday, November 18, 2009

8am Headlines


Police were searching early Wednesday for two armed men at a T.J. Maxx clothing store in a southwest Florida shopping mall after they allegedly held eight employees hostage for at least 3 hours.
Seven of the eight hostages were freed after dozens of SWAT team members, backed by two helicopters, surrounded the store. The final hostage reportedly hid from the gunmen and was injured after being shoved to the ground by the attackers. SWAT members were seen dragging her out of the store on a blanket.

Donald Trump is giving up the fight to reclaim his casino empire.
Trump’s famous name will stay on the three Atlantic City casinos he once controlled, but corporate bondholders would be the new bosses under a deal that ends a high-stakes bankruptcy battle.
Trump and his daughter, Ivanka, have agreed to back the bondholders’ proposed buyout of Trump Entertainment Resorts Inc. and will drop all of their litigation in bankruptcy court.


Prosecutors in the state of Missouri filed 15 additional sex charges against a family already accused of sexually abusing children as a newly released search warrant claims some of the suspects forced their victims to help kill and bury a man in 1988.
The new rape and sodomy charges stem from 1984 to 1989
The new rape and sodomy charges stem from 1984 to 1989 and accuse Burrell E. Mohler Sr., 77, of Independence, of rape, sodomy and use of a child in a sexual performance. His four sons, Jared Leroy Mohler, 48, of Columbia; Roland Neil Mohler, 47, of Bates City; and David A. Mohler, 52, of Lamoni, Iowa, were charged with rape.

Malaria. Tuberculosis. Alzheimer's disease. AIDS. Pandemic flu. Genital herpes. Urinary tract infections. Grass allergies. Traveler's diarrhea. You name it, the pharmaceutical industry is working on a vaccine to prevent it.
Investment in partnerships and other deals to develop and manufacture vaccines has been on a tear—and accelerating since the swine flu pandemic began
Billions in government grants are bringing better, faster ways to develop and manufacture vaccines

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