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The family of a 3-month-old girl who went into Mercy Medical Center's emergency room with a stomach flu and came out with a third-degree burn on her left hand announced Wednesday that they plan to sue.Dignity Health, the hospital's parent company, sent a letter to the family's lawyer saying it was sorry and explaining how Lylah Rose Payne Quezada of Atwater was burned.In the letter, released to the media on Tuesday by the family's lawyer, Dignity said emergency room nurses used an unapproved light source to locate a vein to administer an IV to the infant March 28. "It's been really horrible. I have to do hand massages four to eight times a day, which is really painful for her," said Lylah's mother, Tiffany Payne. ... Continue reading →

TALIQAN, Afghanistan | Wed May 23, 2012 7:28am EDT TALIQAN, Afghanistan (Reuters) - More than 120 schoolgirls and three teachers have been poisoned in the second attack in as many months blamed on conservative radicals in the country's north, Afghan police and education officials said on Wednesday. The attack occurred in Takhar province where police said that radicals opposed to education of women and girls had used an unidentified toxic powder to contaminate the air in classrooms. Scores of students were left unconscious.Afghanistan's intelligence agency, the National Directorate of Security (NDS), says the Taliban appear intent on closing schools ahead of a 2014 withdrawal by foreign combat troops."A part of their Al Farooq spring offensive operation is ... to close schools. By poisoning girls they ... Continue reading →

2:39 p.m. A Cal Fire investigator said the initial fire burned multiple marijuana plants growing near the home on Eucalyptus Avenue. Fire officials haven't yet determine what caused the fire.1:27 p.m.: Cal Fire officials say the fire has been contained. The fire burned between five and six acres of land and two trailers of discarded tires, according to Capt. Robert Delarosa. The strong winds contributed to the fire's spread, he said. Earlier statements that the fire was burning four trailers of tires were overestimated.It took 25 firefighters and 10 pieces of equipment to contain the blaze, which started around 11 a.m. and jumped from the single-story structure on Eucalyptus Avenue into the 10-acre field. Harland Vresler rents the property and said he didn't know who ... Continue reading →