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A Henrico County Circuit Court judge on Tuesday ordered that licensed counselors be allowed to engage underage clients in a ...

The declaration was made by Justice Bechu Kurian Thomas while granting anticipatory bail to a 27-year-old man from Malappuram ...

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A university pathology museum has in its collection specimens possibly retained from coronial autopsies without consent. It has prompted an unprecedented investigation by a Tasmanian coroner, and has ...

Naikishia L. Williams, 31, was arrested June 26 and is charged with first-degree murder after the death of her daughter, ...

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Grace Schara's family argued she died from a drug overdose of precedex, lorazepam, morphine as a result of an illegal do not resuscitate order.

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New moms can donate their placentas under a Mercy Health initiative called Beginnings and Blessings. The program, which rolled out a year ago and has since expanded to six Mercy hospitals across the ...

Grace Schara's family argues she died from a drug overdose of precedex, lorazepam, morphine as a result of an illegal do not resuscitate order.