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Since there is so much news coverage regarding Michael Jackson I simply cannot keep up as I’ve ran into a busy time in my life.
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Police are looking to interview someone they believe could provide a critical clue in determining what killed Michael Jackson — the doctor who was at home with the singer on the day of his death.
Los Angeles police are looking for Jackson’s doctor, who they hope can shed light on how the pop singer died.
Cops towed a silver BMW from outside Jackson’s Los Angeles home, which police confirmed belonged to Jackson’s “personal physician” and which they believed contains evidence crucial to the investigation. The doctor’s name has not been officially released by authorities.
Law enforcement sources, however, confirmed to ABC News, that the car towed from Jackson’s home is registered to one Susan Mary Rush. Rush is the sister of Dr. Conrad Robert Murray, who was the doctor with Jackson Thursday.
Police interviewed Murray Thursday night, but have not been able to reach him since then.
“The car was impounded,” said Amanda Betat, a spokeswoman for the Los Angeles Police Department. “One reason it was impounded was because it may contain medication or evidence that could assist the coroner in determining the cause of death.”
The British Newspaper the Sun has reported that Jackson was given a lethal dose of the painkiller Demerol before his death.
Law enforcement sources told ABC newsJackson was addicted to Oxycontin and received it and Demerol in daily doses.
Police said that a death certificate has yet to be signed for Jackson, a task that is ordinarily performed by the physician of the deceased. Coroners began the autopsy this morning.
Police said interviewing the attending physician was a standard part of the investigation.
“A doctor has yet to sign to the Jackson death certificate,” said LAPD spokesman Richard French. “Part of the investigation involves interviewing the attending physician.”
Jackson’s brother Jermaine said Thursday night at a press conference that the singer’s doctor had tried to resuscitate him.
“His personal physician, who was with him at the time, attempted to resuscitate my brother, as did the paramedics who transported him to Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center,” Jermaine Jackson said in the announcement that confirmed Michael Jackson, 50, had died.
Before authorities confirmed to ABC News that Murray was being sought for an interview, speculation swirled as to who might be the “personal physician” who was with Jackson at the time of his death.
Murray personally has been taken to civil court in Clark County twice in the past year by Capital One Bank for unpaid bills of around $2,000 in total.
The LAPD said it knew Jackson had several doctors.
For years, Jackson has been treated by Dr. Arnie Klein, a dermatologist. It was in Klein’s office that Jackson met Debbie Rowe, the mother of his first two children. A housekeeper at Klein’s homes said the doctor was “out of town.”
The Web site TMZ.com reported the doctor lived at home with Jackson, but police could not confirm that.
Paramedics were called to Jackson’s rental home in the Holmby Hills neighborhood of Los Angeles Thursday afternoon. The singer was taken to UCLA, where according to his brother, doctors attempted to resuscitate him for over an hour.
Jackson is believed to have died as a result of cardiac arrest. Coroners began their autopsy today. Initial results are expected later this afternoon.
Source: ABC NEWS
Michael Jackson was “heavily addicted” to the powerful pain killer Oxycontin and received “daily doses” of it and of another pain killer, Demerol, according to a senior law enforcement official briefed on the initial investigation of his death.
The Los Angeles police were told Jackson received an injection of Demerol one hour before his death, the official said.
The information and other emerging details, make it almost certain the Los Angeles Police Homicide and Robbery Division will launch a full investigation into the circumstances of the pop singer’s death. The squad was given the assignment initially because of the “high profile” nature of the case.
As part of the broadening investigation, police detectives are searching for Dr. Conrad Murray, a Las Vegas cardiologist, who was reportedly with Jackson yesterday but has not been located since.
A car towed by police from the Jackson home was registered in the name of Dr. Murray’s sister, Susan Mary Rush of Houston, Texas.
“There is no immediate indication of a crime,” a police official told ABC News, “but because of the high profile nature of the case the robbery and homicide detectives with review all evidence and work with the coroner’s office.”
Los Angeles police were reported to be seeking a doctor who was with Jackson when he collapsed yesterday at his rented mansion in the Bel-Air section of Los Angeles.
The LAPD is also reportedly searching for a doctor who may be able to help in their investigation. Police say that they towed a BMW owned by the doctor from Jackson’s home.
“We have not been able to interview the doctor yet. His car was impounded because it may contain medications or other evidence that may assist the coroner in determining the cause of death,” said LAPD spokesperson Karen Rayner.
The Los Angeles coroner began an autopsy this morning although it could take several days before full results are known.
A Jackson family attorney, Brian Oxman, told ABC News today he had no hard evidence but that he feared Jackson died from “overmedications.” On Good Morning America, Oxman said, “Drugs had been part of Jackson’s life since the 1980’s” and said he had warned family members that “if Jackson dies of overmedication I will not hold my tongue.”
Federal agents said they also could become involve if there is evidence that a pharmaceutical drug played a role in his death, much as they did in the case of heiress Anna Nicole Smith who died of an accidental overdose of prescription drugs.
California attorney general Jerry Brown worked with the federal Drug Enforcement Administration in the Smith case and ultimately brought charges against her lawyer, Howard K. Stern, and a doctor. Brown said Smith and been drugged to the point of “stupefaction” and called Stern “a primary enabler.”
There is a hearing scheduled for later this summer to determine whether prosecutors have enough evidence to proceed to trial. Both Stern and Smith’s doctor have plead not guilty to the charges.
Source: ABC NEWS
Michael Jackson, the self-anointed “King of Pop” who revolutionized music but whose legacy was marred by allegations of child molestation and bizarre behavior, died after suffering cardiac arrest Thursday.
He was 50 years old and preparing for what he had said would be his final series of live performances.
Jackson’s older brother, Jermaine Jackson, 54, told the media that emergency room doctors worked to resuscitate the pop star for one hour after he arrived at the hospital.
“They were unsuccessful,” he said. Michael Jackson’s personal physician was with the singer when he collapsed in his home and worked to try to revive him.
“May Allah be with you, Michael, always,” Jermaine Jackson said.
The Los Angeles Fire Department was called to Jackson’s residence at 12:26 p.m. P.T. Paramedics performed CPR on Jackson, who was not breathing when they arrived at his home. He was rushed to LA Medical Center, just six miles from his home.
Lisa Marie Presley, the daughter of legendary rock and roll innovator and pop megastar Elvis Presley, was married to Jackson from 1994 to 1996.
“I am completely shocked and saddened by Michael’s death. My heart goes out to his children and his family,” said Presley in a statement.
Dame Elizabeth Taylor, who some would say was one of Jackson’s closest friends, was “too devestated by the passing of her dear friend” to issue a statement, according to her publicist.
“For a long time he was unquestionably the most famous person on the planet,” Jed Hilly, the executive director of the Americana Music Assocation, told ABCNews.com.
Brooke Shields, who briefly dated Jackson, also issued a statement on his passing.
“My heart is overcome with sadness for the devastating loss of my true friend Michael. He was an extraordinary friend, artist and contributor to the world. I join his family and his fans in celebrating his incredible life and mourning his untimely passing,” said Brooke Shields.
Chris Connelly, an ABC News contributor, was one of the last people to interview Jackson, and said today that the pop star was “determined to convey that he had greater things ahead of him.”
“The word he spoke with the greatest emphasis was the ‘More!’ that he exclaimed when I asked if he could still do all his famous moves and hit all those notes at the age of 50,” said Connelly of his August 2008 phone interview with Jackson. Connelly asked Jackson if he had received his AARP membership, a question that garnered a laugh from the star.
“In an all-too-short life that in so many ways was filled with enigmatic emotions, or troubling ones, his laugh sounded fresh, clear and altogether genuine,” said Connelly. “If only there had been more of those.”
Jackson’s death came less than a month before the start of a scheduled series of so-called comeback concerts. From July 13 to March 6, 2010, Jackson was scheduled to perform 50 sold-out concerts at London’s O2 Arena.
Jackson is survived by his three children, Prince Michael I, Paris and Prince Michael II.
Fans last heard from Jackson during a press conference in London last March, where he assured about 2,000 fans that his upcoming concert would be his “final curtain call.”
“I just want to say that these will be my final show performances in London,” he said to the screaming crowd. “This will be it. When I say this is it, this will be it.”
Last night we had a pretty nasty storm in there area I was traveling through but when it all calmed down I managed to get a couple pictures of a beautiful sunset. I have went through and tried to fix up one of them the best I can so I can share it with my vistors.
It was still raining when I was taking photos so I had to use a lil photoshop magic but all in all the photo came out pretty good dispite the fact I used a point and shoot digital camera for the picture.
Anyways enjoy.
I am starting to consider changing the backend script that runs Twist3d.net from Wordpress to something else that loads a lot faster since wordpress has issues with load time.
This won’t be done right away however though because I have become very busy atm with other things in my life. Expect changes in the next 2-3 months.
The amusement park company Six Flags is seeking Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, saying it needs to reorganize and shed $1.8 billion of debt.
Mark Shapiro, the New York-based company’s chief executive officer, says the move won’t affect the operation of its 20 theme parks in the U.S., Mexico and Canada.
Six Flags says it actually had a great year in 2008. It saw 25 million visitors and posted record revenues. But executives are trying to lighten a $2.4 billion debt load that they say is unsustainable.
Saturday’s bankruptcy filing came after an earlier plan to negotiate an out-of-court deal with creditors failed.
Six Flags shares have traded below $1 since September. They closed at 26 cents on Friday.
Source: ABCNEWS
The World Health Organization is gearing up to declare a swine flu pandemic, a move that could trigger both the large-scale production of vaccines and questions about why the step was delayed for weeks as the virus continued to spread.
On Wednesday, WHO chief Dr. Margaret Chan quizzed eight countries with large swine flu outbreaks to see if a pandemic, or global epidemic, should be declared. After Chan’s teleconference, the agency announced that an emergency meeting with its flu experts would be held Thursday.
Since swine flu first emerged in Mexico and the United States in April, it has spread to 74 countries around the globe. On Wednesday, WHO reported 27,737 cases including 141 deaths. Most cases are mild and require no treatment.
The world is in phase 5 of WHO’s pandemic alert scale, meaning a global outbreak is imminent. Moving to phase 6, the highest level, means a pandemic has begun. If that declaration is made, it will push drugmakers to fast-track production of a swine flu vaccine.
Chan says she personally believes that a pandemic is under way, but was seeking clear proof that swine flu is spreading rapidly from person to person outside the Americas before declaring a global epidemic.
“Once I get indisputable evidence I will make the announcement,” she told reporters Tuesday.
It would be the first flu pandemic in 41 years, since the Hong Kong flu of 1968.
At GlaxoSmithKline PLC, spokesman Stephen Rea said the company was already working with a key ingredient of the swine flu vaccine to see how quickly doses could be produced. Other major pharmaceuticals like Sanofi Pasteur have also been working on a swine flu vaccine since WHO gave them a “seed stock” of the virus last month created by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Rea said it could take up to six months before large amounts of a swine flu vaccine are available. At the moment, GlaxoSmithKline is still making regular flu vaccine, which it expects to be completed by July.
After that, Rea said GlaxoSMithKline could speed up its swine flu vaccine production if a pandemic is declared. Once that announcement is made, the company would be obliged to fulfill contracts it signed with countries including Britain, Belgium and France, promising to provide a pandemic vaccine as soon as possible.
If a global outbreak is announced, countries would likely activate their own pandemic preparedness plans if they haven’t already. That could mean devoting more money to health services or imposing measures like quarantines, school closures, travel bans and trade restrictions — some of which WHO opposes.
According to WHO’s own pandemic criteria, a global outbreak means a new flu virus is spreading in at least two world regions.
With thousands of cases in North America and hundreds in Japan, Australia and Europe, many experts say that threshold has already been reached, but the U.N. agency has held off on making the pandemic call for political reasons.
“If you look at the science, we were at phase 6 weeks ago,” said Michael Osterholm, a flu expert at the University of Minnesota who has advised the U.S. government on pandemic preparations.
“What’s happening right now is not about public health surveillance and science,” he told The Associated Press in an interview Wednesday. “It’s about politics and risk communication.”
Osterholm said WHO’s delayed decision has cost the agency credibility.
“As soon as you try to incorporate risk messaging into science, you are on a slippery slope,” he said. “WHO has exacerbated the issue by dancing around it.”
In May, several countries urged WHO not to declare a pandemic, fearing it would spark mass panic. The agency appeared to cave into the requests, saying it would rewrite its definition of a global outbreak so that it wouldn’t have to declare one right away for swine flu.
But WHO officials have been concerned in recent days after seeing media reports and health experts discussing more swine flu cases than were being reported by the countries themselves.
In one of the most glaring examples, Britain rushed to report another 75 infections Wednesday, for a total of 750 cases, after some outside health officials said the country was not looking very hard for swine flu.
Britain’s Health Protection Agency insists the virus is not spreading in communities. But three Greek students recently returned home after catching swine flu in the U.K., proof the virus is spreading more widely than British authorities admit. Two of the cases were documented in the journal of the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control.
WHO said announcing a pandemic would not mean the situation was worsening, since no mutations have been detected in the virus to show it is getting more deadly.
One flu expert said WHO’s pandemic declaration would mean little in terms of how countries are responding to the outbreak.
“The writing has been on the wall for weeks,” said Chris Smith, a flu virologist at Cambridge University, adding he didn’t know why WHO had waited so long to declare a pandemic. “WHO probably doesn’t want people to panic, but the virus is now unstoppable.”
Source: ABCNEWS
A woman was shot to death Sunday afternoon and a man seriously wounded at a rural Marengo home, law enforcement officials say.
The woman was found dead inside the home at 1040 L Ave., about five miles north of Marengo, and a male was airlifted to University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, according to the Iowa County Sheriff’s Office suffering from a gunshot wound.
An autopsy is scheduled for today to determine the official cause of death for the woman.
According to a statement by law enforcement the public is not in danger in regards to this situation and no suspects are at large.
Neighbors told KCRG-TV9 the man who lives in the home shot a woman who was living here with he and his wife. The Sheriff’s Office would not confirm that account. Deputies were called to the scene at about 4:30 p.m. Joined by state investigators, they remained at the two-story frame house well into the night.
The mobile crime lab from the state Division of Criminal Investigation arrived about 8 p.m. and remained on the scene late last night. Several people arrived a bit later to collect the several dogs that barked through the evening as deputies and investigators moved through the house and yard.
A detective photographed several vehicles parked in front of the home, which sits down the hill from L Avenue, also County Road F-15. A sign advertising a hog roast was posted near the road.
According to the Iowa County Assessor’s Web site, the property is owned by Tonch and Amanda Weldon and is owner-occupied.
The names of the victims will be released later today.
Source: Gazette
I’m sure many of you have probably seen these pics already as they were going around in an e-mail forward for quite some time. Either way I figured I would share them here.
Enjoy.
There are a lot more of her photos HERE
