Wednesday, August 1, 2007

Feds search Alaska senator's home

Federal agents searched the home of U.S. Sen. Ted Stevens on Monday, focusing on records related to his relationship with an oil field services contractor jailed in a public corruption investigation, a law enforcement official said. Stevens, 83, has been under a federal investigation for a 2000 renovation project more than doubling the size of his home in Girdwood that was overseen by Bill Allen, a contractor who has pleaded guilty to bribing Alaska state legislators. Stevens said the interests of justice would be best served if he commented after the investigation.

Exercise, caffeine fight skin cancers

WASHINGTON -- Folks who exercise for their health but avoid caffeine may be missing out on some skin cancer protection. The combination of exercise and caffeine increased destruction of precancerous cells that had been damaged by the sun's ultraviolet-B radiation, according to a team of researchers at Rutgers University.

Charges in attempt to hasten death

LOS ANGELES -- A San Francisco transplant surgeon, Dr. Hootan Roozrokh, was charged Monday with attempting to hasten the death last year of a 26-year-old disabled man on life support in order to harvest his organs more quickly.

Goldman family to release O.J. book

MIAMI -- A federal bankruptcy judge Monday awarded the rights of O.J. Simpson's canceled "If I Did It" book to the family of the late Ronald Goldman to satisfy part of a $38 million wrongful death judgment against the former football star. Fred Goldman, Ronald Goldman's father, said he intends to release the book as a measure of justice to portray Simpson as "a wife-beater, as a murderer, written in his own words."

Source:www.detnews.com

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