A former nurse at a North Carolina hospital has been charged in the deaths of two patients after officials said he injected them with lethal doses of insulin.
Forsyth County District Attorney Jim O’Neill announced at a news conference Tuesday that Johnathan Howard Hayes, a registered nurse, was charged with two counts of murder and one count of attempted murder, news outlets reported. Hayes worked at Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center in Winston-Salem.
Southern California is roasting in record heat this week — not at all what was expected in mid-February during a “super El Niño.” Where is all the cool weather and drought-busting rain? One climate researcher says that even though this El Niño is among the strongest on record, it lacks important features that influence West Coast weather.
Temperatures are scorching for mid-February, soaring past previous records. Since Monday, 37 warm temperature records have been set in the San Diego and Los Angeles regions.
Bill Murray used his Oscar presenter’s role to offer a tribute to the late comedy visionary Harold Ramis.
Murray, who was presenting an award for best cinematography with Amy Adams, said after the nominees’ names were read, “Oh, we forgot one, Harold Ramis for ‘Caddyshack,’ ‘Ghostbusters’ and ‘Groundhog Day.'”
Ramis, the writer, director and actor who was the comic mind behind those movies, died last week.
Murray appeared in each of the films.
Beyer played an recurring role on NBC’s Third Watch. He has appeared on Sex and The City, Lie To Me, NCIS: Los Angeles, Criminal Minds, CSI: Miami, Law & Order, and Law & Order: SVU. Beyer starred as Don Meredith in the TNT original telefilm, Monday Night Mayhem. In 2012, Beyer was featured in a two-part episode of NCIS. His character was a war veteran suffering from PTSD who helps foil a domestic terror plot.
Three years ago, at my class’s white coat ceremony during the first week of medical school, the photographer told us to smile and yell “Tuition-free!” rather than “Cheese!” We were horrified: The notion of tuition-free medical school — admittedly something that had been circulating in the pre-orientation rumor mill — seemed imaginative at best, delusional at worst, and thoroughly inconsiderate on day four of probably the most debt-accumulating pursuit in our adult lives.