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Surgical consent altered at UW after case involving hysterectomy

Click here for updates on this story     MADISON, Wisconsin (madison.com/Wisconsin State Journal) — UW-Madison’s obstetrics and gynecology department changed its surgical consent process to ask patients to sign consent forms on the day of surgery, not before, after a case in which a patient’s ovaries were not removed as desired during a hysterectomy. “This reduces

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Third COVID-19 outbreak hits Danville Adult Detention Center; director suspects K2 joint led to spread

Click here for updates on this story     DANVILLE, Virginia (Danville Register and Bee) — Five inmates at the Danville Adult Detention Center have tested positive for COVID-19, marking the second outbreak at the facility this month and the third since December. The inmates tested positive last week and are in quarantine, said Frank Mardavich, the

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Bail set at $1 million in town of Lyndon double homicide, victims allegedly beaten with baseball bat

Click here for updates on this story     Lyndon, Wisconsin (wiscnews.com) — Court documents from a double homicide in the town of Lyndon show authorities believe the victims were murdered using a baseball bat following an argument. Deputies from the Juneau County Sheriff’s Office found the bodies of Tina Decorah, 42, and Duane Mallory, 33, at

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Tax Commissioner pushes back against claims she is raising contract fees with cities only to boost her pay

Click here for updates on this story     GWINNETT COUNTY, Georgia (Gwinnett Daily Post) — Gwinnett County’s tax commissioner and one member of its Board of Commissioners are engaged in a public dispute over whether the county’s top tax official should charge eight cities that use her office for tax billing a fee that would reportedly

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Federal appeals court rules in favor of Ohio professor who refused to use transgender student’s pronouns

A federal appeals court ruled on Friday that an Ohio professor can sue a university for violating his constitutional rights after he was disciplined for refusing to use the pronouns of a transgender student. Nicholas Meriwether, a philosophy professor at Shawnee State University in Ohio, filed a lawsuit in 2018 after the school formally disciplined

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Derek Chauvin is on trial for George Floyd’s death. America’s criminal justice system is not

George Floyd’s public death under the knee of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin last May set off an intense debate about societal issues on anti-Black racism, on police accountability and on the entire American criminal justice system. But over the next four weeks, the debate in Chauvin’s trial inside a Hennepin County, Minnesota, courthouse

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