James Harris looks like he got the piss beat out of him. Just look at him. And the 18-year-old apparently got his comeuppance after allegedly stealing an X-Box and stabbing two people early Sunday morning. Court records allege that the stabbing occurred at a party after a woman accused Harris of stealing the video game system -- later found in the trunk of Harris' car. When Platte City police officers arrived, they found a woman bleeding from multiple stab wounds. She was taken to a hospital and
Children's Mercy Hospital will be tweeting a two-hour operation starting around 3 p.m. Tuesday. Here's the details:The surgery will be performed on a 10-year-old international patient
who suffered severe burns on his neck at a New Year's Eve fireworks
event in his hometown 6 months ago. Plastic surgeon, Virender "Vinny"
Singhal, MD, Medical Director of the Cleft Palate/Craniofacial Section
and Section Chief of Plastic Surgery, will be performing the surgery to
insert tissue expanders into the pa
Last week, in a blog entry round-up of local efforts to counter Republican bullshit on health-care reform, I made a joke that wasn't really that funny. Local labor unions were encouraging their members to call in to urge passage of HR 3200, otherwise known as America's Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009. I suggested that if people wanted to sound really smart about how far our representatives and senators have crawled up the ass of the health-care industry, they could easily look at ca
The lump in Karla Keller's left breast was so big, it didn't take a physician to find it. She wasn't doing one of those arm-in-the-air, finger-probing self exams, either. "It was so big, I felt it while I was rubbing soap over it in the shower," she says.
Karla KellerShe still wasn't prepared for the doctor's diagnosis: Three tumors in her left breast. All aggressive. Each fast-growing. She was just 23 years old.
On Sunday, she'll be one of the hundreds of pink-clad survivors, running in
So far, in our August-recess series of reports on local politicians' campaign contributions from the medical industry, we've counted up contributions to Sen. Pat Roberts and Rep. Dennis Moore of Kansas and Rep. Sam Graves from Missouri. We couldn't let Missouri Sen. Claire McCaskill's week of difficult town hall meetings end without adding up her totals, too.According to Federal Election Commission reports from her first and so-far only Senate campaign, McCaskill had banked $11,906,356 in to
