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Maley recommends ways to combat painkiller abuse

Prescription painkiller abuse is rampant in South Carolina, but there's no statewide effort to combat it, the state inspector general said Monday. Inspector General Patrick Maley recommended that legislators, state officials and the medical community work together to rein in the escalating epidemic — with doctors taking the lead. It's ...

House passes bill on lying about military medals

People who falsely claim they have received a military medal in order to obtain money or government benefits could face up to a year in jail under legislation that easily passed the House Monday. The Stolen Valor Act, sponsored by Nevada Republican Joe Heck, is a second attempt by the ...

Judge rules workers at UC hospitals can strike

A judge affirmed on Monday that some workers at the five largest University of California medical centers can go on a planned two-day strike starting Tuesday. Sacramento County Superior Court Judge David Brown denied the UC system's request for a complete injunction against a strike by the union, which represents ...

Gov. Peter Shumlin signs the end-of-life bill at the statehouse in Montpelier, Vt. on Monday, May 20, 2013. Vermont is now the fourth state in the country that allows physician assisted suicide. (AP Photo/The Burlington Free Press, Glenn Russell)

Vermont is 4th state to legalize assisted suicide

After years of debate, Vermont became the fourth state in the country Monday to allow doctors to prescribe lethal doses of medicine to terminally ill patients seeking to end their lives. Gov. Peter Shumlin signed the bill into law at a Statehouse ceremony even as opponents vowed to push for ...

State Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg, D-Sacramento, left, talks with Sen. Alex Padilla, D- Los Angeles,  during the Senate session at the Capitol in Sacramento, Calif., Monday, May 20, 2013.  By a 22-12 vote the Senate approved Steinberg's measure to regulate the sale of medical marijuana, in part by saying that dispensaries cannot operate with a profit. The bill wlll allow operators to receive reasonable compensation and reimbursement for expenses. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)

Senate OKs regulations for medicinal marijuana

California would take steps to regulate the sale of medical marijuana under a bill approved Monday by the state Senate, restricting cannabis dispensaries that federal prosecutors say have grown out of control. California voters first supported legalizing marijuana to treat illness in 1996, but federal prosecutors recently cracked down. They ...

5 things to know about Vt.'s assisted suicide law

Vermont Gov. Peter Shumlin signed the End-of-Life Choices law on Monday, effective immediately. Some basics about the new law: 1. RECORDKEEPING: The Vermont Health Department must create the form that physicians must use when reporting they have prescribed lethal doses of medicine to patients. However, people with terminal illnesses are ...

Maley recommends ways to combat painkiller abuse

Prescription painkiller abuse is rampant in South Carolina, but there's no statewide effort to combat it, the state inspector general said Monday. Inspector General Patrick Maley recommended that legislators, state officials and the medical community work together to rein in the escalating epidemic — with doctors taking the lead. It's ...

FILE - In this Dec. 31, 2012 file photo, Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, center, fields questions from reporters as he walks on Capitol Hill in Washington. Foreigners leaving the country through any of the nation's 30 busiest airports would undergo mandatory fingerprinting under an amendment senators added Monday to a sweeping immigration bill. "This is an agreement that we need to build toward a biometric visa exit system," said Sen. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz., who offered the amendment by Hatch, who was absent Monday. "Implementing this biometric exit system is long overdue."  (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

Senators require fingerprinting at 30 airports

Senate supporters of far-reaching immigration legislation accepted minor changes in public while negotiating over more sweeping alterations in private Monday as they drove toward expected Judiciary Committee approval by mid-week. In a long day of drafting, the panel voted to begin phasing in a requirement for foreigners to undergo fingerprinting ...

Questions linger in shooting of NY college student

As a grieving family prepared for the funeral of a Hofstra University junior killed by a police officer's bullet during a standoff with an armed intruder, some on Monday questioned whether police should have waited for help, including a hostage negotiating team. "I think the police is not very professional," ...

Iraqi security force members inspect the site of a car bomb attack in Basra, 340 miles (550 kilometers) southeast of Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, May 20, 2013. Two car bombings in the southern city of Basra, killing and wounding dozens of people, police said. Iraq has seen a spike of attacks, including bombings hitting both Sunni and Shiite civilian targets over the last week. (AP Photo/ Nabil al-Jurani)

Attacks kill 95 in Iraq, hint of Syrian spillover

Iraq's wave of bloodshed sharply escalated Monday with more than a dozen car bombings across the country, part of attacks that killed at least 95 people and brought echoes of past sectarian carnage and fears of a dangerous spillover from Syria's civil war next door. The latest spiral of violence ...

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