Recent Votes

• Defibrillator 'upgrade' apparently a dud

  By Lilly Fowler, Fair Warning Just over a decade ago, hospitals around the country began spending millions of dollars to buy automated defibrillators to save the lives of more patients who go into sudden cardiac arrest.

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• Immigrant workers, farmers fearful in wake of Alabama immigration law

  By Kate Snow Rock Center correspondent Jerry Danford drives me out back in his white pickup truck to see his 100 acres of cucumber fields. I’m sweating.

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• Big win for Democrats in Ohio and an abortion surprise in Mississippi

  The outcomes Tuesday in balloting from Maine to Mississippi included enough wins for Democrats, abortion rights advocates, and labor unions to give a bit of a lift to President Obama and his allies as they look toward the 2012 elections, 12 months from tonight. In Ohio, voters o …

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• Opinion: Human rights for embryos? Initiative at odds with science

  Fertilized eggs could be granted human rights, depending on how Mississippi voters cast their ballots Tuesday on Initiative 26.

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• Sex assault arrest highlights security concerns at 'Occupy' protests

  NEW YORK -- Highlighting growing security concerns at “Occupy” protests around the country, a 26-year-old man has been arrested and charged with sexual abuse of a woman at the encampment near Wall Street where the movement was born.  Tonye Iketubosin, a Brooklyn  …

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