(CNN)A Georgia woman spent three months in jail after two deputies said a field test of a blue substance found in a car she was in turned up positive for methamphetamine. But it wasn't meth. It was cotton candy. Dasha Fincher claims that while she was in jail she missed several major life events, including the birth of twin grandchildren, and was refused medical care for a broken hand and ovarian cyst. Now she's filed a lawsuit against Monroe County and the three officers involved for wrongful imprisonment and violating her civil rights. The lawsuit also targets Sirchie Acquisition Company, the maker of the field kit the deputies used to produce the mistaken test result. A traffic stop turned into a drug charge Read More According to the lawsuit, Fincher was a passenger in a car that was pulled over by two Monroe County Sheriff's deputies on December 31, 2016. The deputies initially said they stopped the car because they thought the tinting on the car's windows was too … [Read more...] about A woman was jailed for 3 months because police thought her cotton candy was meth
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Girl, 3, ‘nearly died’ after firm ‘ignored’ warnings she was allergic to chicken and brownies at wedding reception
A TODDLER “nearly died” after having a life-threatening allergic reaction to dairy after she was given a brownie at a wedding reception. Maizy Harman suffered a “severe and life-threatening” reaction despite her parents warned the venue she could not eat egg or milk products. Hull Crown Court heard how the three-year-old was served the brownie after chicken goujons, which contained egg products, but it was the dessert that made her suffer such a severe reaction. Her family and wedding guests watched in horror as little Maizy broke out in hives, started vomiting and then fought to take a breath. Prosecutor Patrick Palmer said weddings guests described her “becoming short of breath, eyes rolling back and her head flopping around”. The little girl, who had just turned three the day before, was saved after a quick-thinking guest gave her their inhaler. When the ambulance paramedics came to the Kilnwick Percy Golf Club near Pocklington, East Yorks, Maizy … [Read more...] about Girl, 3, ‘nearly died’ after firm ‘ignored’ warnings she was allergic to chicken and brownies at wedding reception
Stacey Solomon: The crippling fear that tortured my life for six hours a day and drove me to therapy
I CAN’T discipline my boys without thinking: is that the last word I’ll say to them? I can’t have a glass of wine without wondering: have I just stolen a day from my biological clock? I can’t function any more. I have no energy left. I cannot go on like this. I wrote this heartbreaking diary entry last year when I was battling crippling health anxiety. The debilitating condition meant I spent so much of my time worrying about dying and obsessively checking my health that it took over my life. At my worst, I was so fearful of death I’d think about it for six hours a day. I remember being scared of dying at a very young age, maybe even five or six. I had no traumatic childhood experiences. There's not a point in my childhood where my mortality was questioned, but the fear was always there. Bedtime is when I get most anxious because I have time to contemplate. I’m also more likely to question my mortality and catastrophise if I’ve seen or … [Read more...] about Stacey Solomon: The crippling fear that tortured my life for six hours a day and drove me to therapy
Josef Fritzl 10 years on: the ‘ordinary’ pensioner and the dark secret of the daughter he held captive for 24 years
On Saturday April 26 2008 an anxious father and his daughter arrived to visit their critically ill relative in Mostviertel-Amstetten State Hospital, lower Austria. Doctors were shocked by the daughter’s appearance. Her skin was the colour of ash, her few remaining teeth rotten beyond repair. She looked aged enough to be the wife, not the daughter of her 73-year-old father. Read more Confessions from the cellar: 'It was great for me to have a second Already suspicious about the signs of neglect detected in Kerstin, the sick 19-year-old relative, the doctors called the police. At first the daughter, Elisabeth, was reluctant to talk. Only when the police officers promised her she would never have to see her father again did she open up. And then a story tumbled out of her that was so incredible she had to preface it with the words: “No-one will believe me.” Elisabeth Fritzl had been imprisoned by her father in the basement of the family home at number … [Read more...] about Josef Fritzl 10 years on: the ‘ordinary’ pensioner and the dark secret of the daughter he held captive for 24 years
Germany’s desperate need for immigrants
Pension payers Germany needs immigration to defuse a demographic time bomb that threatens its social welfare system. The question is: how much and what kind? Published on January 30, 2018 12:00 pm Earlier this week, a full-page advertisement appeared in two of Germany’s largest newspapers. It showed what appeared to be an unborn child in the womb. But this was not the work of local anti-abortion activists. The advertisement was paid for by a German organization, the New Social Market Economy Initiative, a lobby group with close ties to employers’ organizations. The headline above the baby reads: “Your pension plans are my worst nightmare.” The point of the advertising was to ask any new coalition government not to raise the level of social welfare contributions in a country where they are already fairly high. At the moment Germany is looking ahead at a demographic time bomb. Labor shortages, a falling birth rate and an aging population mean that it … [Read more...] about Germany’s desperate need for immigrants