Parents urge more tests as twitches spread at New York school
Sunday, February 5th, 2012 at
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LE ROY, New York (Reuters) – State health officials have added three more names to a growing list of students in this working-class town who are experiencing mysterious tics and twitching, while authorities on Saturday sought to assure parents the community’s high school is safe. Although the symptoms are typically associated with Tourette Syndrome, that has been ruled out in all but one case, causing dread and confusion among many residents of Le Roy, N.Y., about 50 miles east of Buffalo. …
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(Reuters) – Indianapolis authorities called on Super Bowl celebrants to play it safe on Saturday night at festivities near the city’s football stadium, after at least 10 people were injured the previous evening. As part of the buildup to the championship game, self-described party rock group LMFAO on Friday performed a concert in the Super Bowl Village, selection draw a crowd to the area around Lucas Oil Stadium that during the course of the day reached an estimated 150,000 people. …
AP – When Dorothy Twinney initially saw a Race for the Cure walk for breast cancer — “a sea of pink” traveling through her hometown of Plymouth, Mich. — she was so went she sat in her car and wept.
Fans of “Soul Train” boogied down Broadway in afro wigs and bell bottoms on Saturday while others recounted their favorite episodes at a Harlem meeting hall in tribute to the TV show’s late creator, Don Cornelius.
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Among the slick, million-dollar ads for the likes of Pepsi and Honda during the Super Bowl this Sunday, viewers in Washington will see a far more modest spot. New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Boston Mayor Thomas Menino will be sitting on a couch touting an issue most politicians avoid like the plague: gun control. The two mayors, whose local teams face off in the huge game, are making the pitch for Mayors Against Illegal Guns (MAIG), the organization they co-founded in 2006. …