Date: 10/13/2008 4:56 AM By TIM MARTINAssociated Press Writer LANSING, Mich. (AP) _ Michigan voters will be thrust into the crossroads of science, ethics and religion next month when they decide whether to loosen the state’s restrictions on embryonic stem cell research. Supporters of the ballot measure say it could put Michigan researchers at the ...
Date: 10/12/2008 7:43 AM ANKARA, Turkey (AP) _ Turkey’s government says it is investigating allegations that an activist has died of injuries sustained in a beating by police. Human rights groups say 29-year-old Engin Ceber was severely beaten by officers while in custody. He died in a hospital from a brain hemorrhage on Saturday. The ...
Date: 10/9/2008 6:44 AM By ANDALE GROSSAssociated Press Writer KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) _ For seven years a community waited to bring to justice the killers of a little victim it had come to know as “Precious Doe.” The haunting case of the 3-year-old girl whose headless body was discovered in 2001 came to an ...
Date: 10/8/2008 10:05 PM By ANDALE GROSSAssociated Press Writer KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) _ A man who kicked his girlfriend’s daughter in the head and dumped her body in the woods was convicted Wednesday, resolving a case that haunted the Kansas City area during the four years the 3-year-old was known only as “Precious Doe.” ...
Date: 10/8/2008 3:19 PM By ANDALE GROSSAssociated Press Writer KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) _ Jurors began deliberating the case Wednesday of a man accused of kicking a 3-year-old girl in the head, waiting hours without seeking help while she died, then decapitating the girl and dumping her body. During closing arguments, Jackson County prosecutors told ...
Date: 10/8/2008 1:00 PM By SETH BORENSTEINAP Science Writer WASHINGTON (AP) _ Cells taken from men’s testicles seem as versatile as the stem cells derived from embryos, researchers reported Wednesday in what may be yet another new approach in a burgeoning scientific field. The new type of stem cells could be useful for growing personalized ...
Date: 10/7/2008 8:19 PM By ANDALE GROSSAssociated Press Writer KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) _ The mother of a little girl long known as “Precious Doe” testified Tuesday she knew the injured 3-year-old needed medical attention but that she feared going to jail and instead waited for the child to die. Testifying in her husband’s first-degree ...
Date: 10/7/2008 1:59 PM By ANDALE GROSSAssociated Press Writer KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) _ The mother of a 3-year-old girl whose headless body was unidentified for nearly four years testified Tuesday that she watched her then-boyfriend kick her daughter in the head and helped him dump her body. Michelle Johnson was the mother of Erica ...
Date: 10/6/2008 10:09 PM By DAVID TWIDDYAssociated Press Writer KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) _ The man accused of murdering 3-year-old Erica Green kicked her in the head but didn’t mean to kill her, his attorney told a jury Monday in the case of a victim the city mourned for four years only knowing her as ...
Date: 10/6/2008 1:13 PM By ANDALE GROSSAssociated Press Writer KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) _ A man went on trial for murder Monday in the death of a 3-year-old girl whose headless body was found in the woods and nicknamed “Precious Doe.” Special prosecutor Tim Dollar told jurors Monday that the man, Harrell Johnson, 29, was ...