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PHILADELPHIA - A medical devices company will admit criminality and pay the maximum $23 million fine for illegally testing bone cement on about 200 spinal patients, three of whom died in surgery, U.S.
MIAMI - A federal program designed to help impoverished families heat and cool their homes wasted more than $100 million paying the electric bills of thousands of applicants who were dead, in prison or living in million-dollar mansions, according to a government investigation.
CHICAGO - Fast decisions on life-and-death cases are the bread and butter of hospital emergency rooms.
SACRAMENTO, Calif. - The story behind the legislation reads like a movie pitch.
SALT LAKE CITY - The estranged parents of former child TV star Gary Coleman are seeking custody of his body and want it returned to the star's boyhood home in Illinois, his former manager said Thursday.