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Amnesia victim 'HM,' who shed light on brain, dies - AP Enterprise: Deaths loom over self-defense laws - Kan. court orders abortion records returned to AG.



Amnesia victim 'HM,' who shed light on brain, dies

Henry Molaison lived for decades with profound amnesia, but in death he will be remembered for his groundbreaking contributions to understanding the brain.

AP Enterprise: Deaths loom over self-defense laws

A convenience store clerk chased down a man and shot him dead over a case of beer this summer and was charged with murder. A week later, a clerk at another Jackson convenience store followed and fatally shot a man he said tried to rob him, and authorities let him go without charges.

Kan. court orders abortion records returned to AG

The Kansas Supreme Court on Friday ordered a former state attorney general to turn over copies of abortion patients' medical records to his former office and suggested the abortion-rights foe should be disciplined for his conduct surrounding the documents.

Families can't forgive Nebraska mall shooter

 Christmas decorations are in place and holiday music fills the atrium, yet a gloom punctuates the shopping season at the Westroads Mall. Employees, their families and friends planned to gather Friday at the steps of the Von Maur department store in remembrance of the eight people killed a year ago in the deadliest mall shooting in U.S. history.

Texas gov requests $300M for Ike temporary housing

Texas Gov. Rick Perry has requested $300 million in federal money to get temporary housing for victims of Hurricane Ike.

Mass. man ticketed in gridlock while wife in labor

A man in Massachusetts is appealing a $100 ticket he got for driving to a hospital in the breakdown lane of a gridlocked Boston highway while his wife was in labor. John Davis of Dracut says his wife Jennifer's contractions were three minutes apart on Nov. 18 when a state trooper pulled them over for using the breakdown lane.

Heart attack patients get 'big chill' treatmen

It took five mighty shocks to get Cynthia Crawford's heart to start beating again after she collapsed at Ochsner Clinic a few weeks ago.

Gun club, police chief indicted in boy's Uzi death

Three men, including a small-town police chief, were indicted Thursday on involuntary manslaughter counts in the gun-fair death of an 8-year-old who accidentally shot himself in the head with an Uzi that a prosecutor said he never should have been allowed to handle.

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