Jeffrey Bourgeois, 6, was helping his father clear brush in a client's yard in Salem, Conn., when his arm got stuck in the chipper, state police said.
"The youngest child attempted to help his father and when his father's back was turned, he picked a branch up and fed it into the chipper when he was pulled into the chipper," State Police Lt. Paul Vance said.
Authorities are at the Chestnut Hill Reservoir this morning where a body has been found.
The Boston Fire Department and State Police are working to retrieve the body, which was spotted by a passerby around 8 a.m. today, said State Police spokesman David Procopio.
He said the identity of the person was not immediately known.
State Police spent a week in late February searching the reservoir for Boston College student Franco Garcia, who disappeared Feb. 22 after spending the night with friends at a Cleveland Circle bar.
Bridgeport Superintendent Paul Vallas said he believes the boy took his stepfather's jacket to school on Monday without knowing the drugs were inside it.
"Children bring to school what they find at home," he said.
Police have told the Connecticut Post the boy took 50 packets of heroin out when it came time for a show-and-tell presentation, but Vallas said the boy only waved the heroin around at his cubicle. Police did not respond to messages seeking comment Tuesday.
The boy's stepfather, 35-year-old Santos Roman, went to the school and recovered the jacket, but police had already seized the drugs, officials said. He was arrested when he returned to the school after apparently discovering the heroin was missing, Vallas said.
LOS ANGELES, April 11 (UPI) -- UCLA has apologized to nearly 900 high school seniors mistakenly notified they were accepted to the California school but in reality were on a waiting list.
University of California Los Angeles spokesman Ricardo Vazquez said the error occurred when updated notices of provisional financial aid were sent during the weekend to admitted students and to students on the waiting list for possible freshman admission this fall, the Los Angeles Times reported.
ACK of proper accounting channels in sports has forced the Auditor General to call for increased financial discipline in national sports organs as one of the means to achieve better results.
This was included in a report released last week for the year ending June 30, 2011.
The report calls on the government bodies of Nakivubo and Namboole stadiums and National Council of Sports to have financial discipline and accountability. This should include getting internal auditors to check on their books of accounts.
The report noted under valuing assets, lack of documentary evidence on expenses and utilised money and actual accountability not matching as some of the problems that required attention.
He advised all to create internal audit systems to regulate expenditure and advise accordingly.
"An internal audit function assists management in assessing internal control systems, risk management and governance and where there are deficiencies suggest improvements," said part of the over 300 page report. NCS was also blamed for having no job descriptions for the positions of Internal Auditor, Senior Assistant Secretary, Office Superintendent and Senior Administrative Secretary.
"This may result into role conflict and failure to apportion responsibility."
The auditor general blamed the lack of internal check for a loss of sh22.5m from the stadium expenses and a doubtful sh7m in trustee expenses.
The Vice President Edward Kiwanuka Ssekandi has urged Ugandans working in the Nordic countries to invest in Uganda, describing the investment climate as "very rife".
Ssekandi made the remarks while giving a key note address during the first ever Ugandan Diaspora convention in the Nordic countries held on the DFDS Cruise at the Oslo habour on Saturday. The convention attracted over 100 Ugandans living and working in Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland and Iceland.
He hailed the Ugandans for their contribution towards the development of the country and assured them that government and the people of Uganda highly acknowledge their great input.
"I challenged the convention to mobilize Ugandans and friends of Uganda in northern Europe to embrace the business opportunities that exist in Uganda and begin contributing to the developing of the country," he said.
According to statistics, Ugandans in the Diaspora contributed over $ 800 million to Uganda last year.
Ssekandi who also delivered President Museveni's contribution of 10,000 US dollars towards the convention said the government will always recognize Ugandans living and working in the Nordic as its own people and encouraged them to apply for dual citizenship to ease their movements as they go about with their businesses.
Gloria Iribaziga reports from the closing ceremony at the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) where the draft resolution "Access to Health as a Basic Right: The Role of Parliaments in Addressing Key Challenges to Securing the Health of Women and Children" has been unanimously passed.
And the WRA wins praise from IPU Secretary General Anders Johnsson for our engagement of Parliamentarians at the IPU in support of this resolution.
Click above our final video blog from our Citizen's Voice studio at the IPU conference where Nsinda Elman Ugandan WRA volunteer and journalist and WRA Rwanda National Coordinator Gloria Iribaziga interview Parliamentarians including the Hon. Chandima Weerakkody MP Sri Lanka, the Hon. Margaret Mensah-Williams Namibia and Anders Johnsson Secretary General of the IPU as well as Martin Chungong, director of Promotion of Democracy IPU about next steps now all have agreed to make access to health a basic right for women and children.
According to KCCA director of Human Resource Jennifer Kagwa, the first phase will only consider about 100 applicants according to the new employment structure.
"The first phase has 41 main-rolls and other relevant officers. In total we expect to consider about 100 people at this stage," Ms Kagwa said at City Hall yesterday.
CHICAGO, Apr 10, 2012 (GlobeNewswire via COMTEX) -- The American Dental Association (ADA) is aware of a recent study that associates yearly or more frequent dental X-rays to an increased risk of developing meningioma, the most commonly diagnosed brain tumor. The ADA's long-standing position is that dentists should order dental X-rays for patients only when necessary for diagnosis and treatment. Since 1989, the ADA has published recommendations to help dentists ensure that radiation exposure is as low as reasonably achievable.
The ADA has reviewed the study and notes that the results rely on the individuals' memories of having dental X-rays taken years earlier. Studies have shown that the ability to recall information is often imperfect. Therefore, the results of studies that use this design can be unreliable because they are affected by what scientists call "recall bias." Also, the study acknowledges that some of the subjects received dental x-rays decades ago when radiation exposure was greater. Radiation rates were higher in the past due to the use of old x-ray technology and slower speed film. The ADA encourages further research in the interest of patient safety.
As part of the ADA's recommendations to minimize radiation exposure, the ADA encourages the use of abdominal shielding (e.g., protective aprons) and thyroid collars on all patients. In addition, the ADA recommends that dentists use E or F speed film, the two fastest film speeds available, or a digital x -ray.
In addition to the X-ray recommendations, the ADA's Council on Scientific Affairs will publish clinical guidance on the use of cone-beam computed tomography in an upcoming issue of The Journal of the American Dental Association. The ADA will share these recommendations as soon as they are available.
(Reuters Health) - A new study suggests people who had certain kinds of dental X-rays in the past may be at an increased risk for meningioma, the most commonly diagnosed brain tumor in the U.S.
The findings cannot prove that radiation from the imaging caused the tumors, and the results are based on people who were likely exposed to higher levels of radiation during dental X-rays than most are today.
"It's likely that the exposure association we're seeing here is past exposure, and past exposure levels were much higher," said Dr. Elizabeth Claus, the study's lead author and a professor at the Yale School of Medicine in New Haven, Connecticut.
Claus and her colleagues write in the journal Cancer that dental X-rays are the most common source of exposure to ionizing radiation -- which has been linked to meningiomas in the past -- but most research on the connection is based on people who were exposed to atomic bombs or received radiation therapy.
There have been some studies that looked at dental X-rays, but they were from years ago and included fewer people than the current study, Claus noted. Still, they were generally in agreement with the new findings.
(Reuters) - Zimbabwean officials on Tuesday dismissed reports that President Robert Mugabe was seriously ill in Singapore, saying he was well and on holiday there with his family, and was expected to return home this week.
Mugabe is one of Africa's longest serving leaders and has ruled the former British colony in southern Africa since 1980. He is sharing power with political rival Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai in a fragile coalition formed three years ago.
The 88-year-old president has been the subject of several health scares in recent years, with some reports saying he has prostate cancer, but in February interviews with state media he laughed off suggestions that he was seriously ill.
Two senior officials from Mugabe's ZANU-PF party on Tuesday angrily denied reports by some international media that he was undergoing intensive treatment in a Singapore hospital and was fighting for his life.
The officials said he was on a private holiday to Singapore.
"The president is well and away on a private holiday to help his daughter prepare for post-graduate studies, but we are expecting him home this week," said one of the two officials, who declined to be named.
NEW YORK — A Canadian actress accused of stalking "30 Rock" star Alec Baldwin has been told to stay away from him.
Genevieve Sabourin was arraigned in a Manhattan court on Monday, a day after she was arrested on charges of stalking and aggravated harassment when Baldwin filed a complaint with police.
A judge released Sabourin, who has acted in television and film, on her own recognizance and issued a temporary order of protection for Baldwin, the Manhattan district attorney's office said.
Baldwin's publicist, Matthew Hiltzik, said, "As everyone knows, stalking is a serious issue, so we've turned this matter over to the New York Police Department."
Sabourin's attorney did not immediately return a phone call seeking comment after the arraignment.
On April 5, Sabourin showed up at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, where Baldwin was hosting a screening of "Last Tango in Paris," and she had to be removed by security, police said.
She also is believed to have turned up unannounced at his home on Long Island on March 31 and to have gone to his address in lower Manhattan's Greenwich Village neighborhood while he wasn't there, authorities say.
The two met a decade ago on the set of "The Adventures of Pluto Nash," in which he had a cameo and she was a publicist.
According to authorities, the 54-year-old Baldwin told police that the 40-year-old Sabourin had been sending him emails for several weeks and that the notes were disturbing. She professed her love for him, begging to have his children and telling him to leave his wife, he said, according to police.
Baldwin recently became engaged to his 28-year-old girlfriend, Hilaria Thomas, a yoga instructor. Baldwin previously was married to actress Kim Basinger, and they have a daughter named Ireland.
At the end of the inaugural episode of his eponymous radio show today, Mike Huckabee asked, "Is there a part of the public that wants to hear both sides of the story and hear intelligent thoughtful discussion?"
Huckabee must be hoping so. The conservative commentator has added the job of daytime talk radio host to his resume, which already includes past gigs as Fox News host, presidential candidate and governor.
At a time when seemingly anyone can be on the radio, Huckabee is betting that conservatives will find his tempered approach to talk radio more appealing than the ambushing style of Rush Limbaugh.
Huckabee's show airs from noon to 3 p.m. daily, the same time slot that "El Rushbo" occupies daily.
OTUS listened to both AM programs today to see how Huck would differentiate himself. The difference was clear from the start.
Over the past week I have been inundated with posts of videos about the LRA leader Joseph Kony and the campaign to make him "famous".
First of all I get ticked off when I watch the video that he got the location of Uganda wrong. Uganda is in East Africa and NOT Central Africa. Secondly, I feel its a little too late. Ugandans and people in northern Uganda specifically have for the first time in 20 odd years an opportunity to live normal lives, the IDP camps have been disbanded and people are getting back to their homes and salvaging as much as they can.
But I was on the Bukedde website and there it was … a space dedicated to abanoonya … people searching marriage partners. And it in vernacular no less!
Now if you come from London and other first world countries, where there is speed dating and internet dating and programs like "the Bachelor" and "take me out" … this sounds quite archaic.BAFTA-winning and three-time Oscar-nominated production designer Sarah Greenwood invite to step inside blockbuster movies Sherlock Holmes 1 and 2 was a thrill for me, I am after all a Sherlock Holmes die hard.
I realised just how little i understood about the making of movies and it was quite an eye opening experience.
Seattle (CNN) -- The attorney for an American soldier accused of killing 16 Afghans raised issues of stress and multiple deployments Friday that hinted at a possible defense strategy.
Even as John Henry Browne spoke, his client was on his way to Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.
The soldier had been in protective custody in Kuwait and was expected to arrive Friday evening at Fort Leavenworth, Browne said.
The civilian attorney said he had spoken with the soldier Thursday and he seemed distant, like a deer in the headlights. Their conversation was curt because Browne said he did not believe the phone lines were secure.
But he said he was wary of why the soldier was deployed to Afghanistan after three tours of Iraq left him with mental and physical injury.
PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) — North Korea plans to blast a satellite into space next month to mark the centenary of the birth of its founder, Kim Il Sung, which the U.S. quickly called a "deal-breaker" for a new agreement where the U.S. would exchange food aid for nuclear concessions.
After Friday's surprise announcement, the United States said it is "very hard to imagine" it could go through with the exchange if the launch of the long-range rocket took place, and U.N. Security Council members said it may violate sanctions.
The North agreed to a moratorium on long-range launches as part of the food deal with Washington, but argues that satellite launches are part of a peaceful space program that is exempt from international disarmament obligations. The U.S., South Korea and other critics say the rocket technology overlaps with belligerent uses and condemn the satellite program as a disguised test of military missiles in defiance of a U.N. ban.
The launch is to take place three years after a similar launch in April 2009 drew widespread censure.
